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bright lights, big city

WHO: Sansa Stark + baby James
WHERE: Coruscant - surface levels; a diner + a network post
WHAT: shock, awe, annoyance
WHEN: 24 March
WARNINGS: TBD

Sansa has been to a few planets in her time both in the Fleet and on Agra 10 but this one has to be the busiest one she's ever seen. She feels like she's in the midst of everything and no one can hear her at all over the noise of speeders and the crush of other beings. She holds James close, not wanting his curiosity to have him touching anything he shouldn't, and calls out for someone she might know.

"If the Agra are doing this, you ought to give me a direction. I cannot help you with whatever task you have if I don't know where you are or where I am," Sansa shouts. A few aliens look her way and shrug and the overall feeling she gets is one of indifference. Seems she isn't the only lost person around here.

Thinking inside would be better than outside, she ducks into what turns out to be a restaurant and settles in one of the booths. The menus are in runes she cannot read and she ends up pointing to what she wants; the staff at least speaks common. While she waits on her food, she jiggles James a bit to try and quiet him.

"We're going to find out where this is," she says, sing-songing. "Mother has to help the Agra again, she thinks, and you're a big enough boy to help too."

***

( Somehow, the communicator had ended up in her pocket without her noticing and Sansa thinks she ought to have tried this first. Of course, she has it now so there's no use in beating herself up over it. )

Fleet! It is Sansa Stark and I have no idea where we are right now. I don't know this planet but I hope some of you still know me. I can send coordinates?

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[No response, because then he's just behind her, hugging Sansa.]

What do you think.

( Sansa knows she should have expected that, given Tommy's talents, but the hug is a little surprising all the same. No one has hugged her in the last few months except the way James clings to her and she nearly cries at the feel of it. )

I missed you so much. Winterfell is so cold and removed. No one ever touches me there.

[not many people come back. Lorna, who left again. And now Sansa. They're family and he's bad without his family.]

I'm still happy you were gone for some of what we went through. For safety.

( Sansa frowns a little, concerned about that. Was it really so terrible, the things that happened in the time she'd gone back home? She clutches James a little tighter and he squirms a bit in response. He's still making happy baby noises, though, so she thinks he's all right. )

What happened, if I may ask? Were things quite dangerous while I was gone? I admit, Winterfell was rather boring after my time on Agra 10.

Terror storm, crashing, oh, and then the invasion of monstrous spiders trying to kill us all.

[He doesn't care that it's not all in order.]

( None of those things sound like they're any good for a mother with child. Shortly before she had gone back to Winterfell, she'd been injured trying to help the Agrii and that had been bad enough. All of those things in succession? )

Perhaps it was better I was back at Winterfell. ( Sansa sighs a little. ) I cannot even call it home any longer, Tommy. This is my home. My home is with all of you.

[Yeah, they would have been bad. So she was lucky.]

Well, then welcome home, Auntie.

[He appreciates her now. Probably comes from the fact that he's older than he was when he last saw her. By years actually.]

( Sansa wonders at the age for a moment, only now really seeing him, and she laughs at being called Auntie. )

Auntie is for wrinkly old women, Tommy. Am I really so old? I missed you too, sweetling, and I'm glad to be back. I'm glad to be home. So, what is this place, exactly? I do not recognize the planet.

Nah, it's for you too. ANd you're not that old. Hell, I don't even know if you're older than me.

[But she's family and given how Wanda treated her, he had to see her as such.]

It's called Coruscant. It's associated with some people that are around. Like Cal.

( Sansa remembers Cal quite well, actually, so knowing that this planet is somewhere he knows is comforting. It could have been a foreign planet entirely and having missed a message from the Agrii, she could have been lost for quite a while. )

I don't think I am older than you, actually. I'm only two and twenty, after all. What mission did the Agrii give us on Coruscant? Was there any in particular or are we simply meant to enjoy ourselves?

[Well, less his planet, and more the main Jedi plant or something?]

Though it's, ugh, like nine-hundred years before Cal and all of them.

Yeah, we're about the same age now, or close. I used to be younger. I went home for a while.

[Mission?]

They want us to figure out why so many people from this universe are being brought here.

That is interesting. I suppose there are more now than before I left? Strange how that happens and no one from Westeros ever comes or stays long. Then again - you'd not want to go on a mission to Westeros to see why we came here. It's not pleasant and there's no electricity.

( That had been awful to get used to once again. )

Is Wanda still here? Please tell me she is.

There's a that that has changed. But the thing is, when I went home, I didn't remember any of this.

[He'd really rather not go to that Westros place, though. He'd fuck people up for offending Sansa.]

Meh, electricity is overrated. But yeah, Aunt Wanda's still around. Aunt Lorna isn't though.

( There would be quite a list of people Tommy would have to handle if he wanted to handle everyone who offended her. It's good he's never had to go to Westeros. )

Electricity is not overrated. Try taking cold baths and tell me your thoughts. Hearing that Wanda is here warms my heart, though. You and Wanda are my family and I have precious few of it left.

( James picks that moment to cry and Sansa laughs a little. Of course, babies have the best timing. )

This little prince needs to eat. I can mash up something for him to eat, though. He has three teeth now. He'll be fighting in the yards soon with his own sword and I hate it.

[He's got speed and there is plenty of chance to get where it's needed.]

I've taken cold baths. I've gone without bathing. It's fine. But I'm glad we're your family. DOn't forget Billy though.

[James! Baby boy! Tommy grins and reaches down to pat his hair.]

Well, we'll have to find him something. I know a few places.

I could never forget Billy. You're ridiculous to think I might. And you know a few places? Well, if we can go there at normal speeds, I think I'd like to find one before he starts screaming.

( James loves to make his opinions known at the least opportune times. )

Of course, normal speeds.

[Tommy doesn't think his speeds, which he can modulate for adults, would be safe for a kid.]

Alright then. We'll... We'll need to take a ship.

[A lift to another structure and lower. Sansa probably remembers how much Tommy LIKED confined spaces. Not.]

Thank you. I appreciate the concession for us because I know it's much more preferable for you to travel your normal way.

( Sansa gives him her most winsome smile. )

The gold in my purse turned into the currency here. I could cover your meal too?

[See, she gets it. Nice woman.]

Lady here this time? Just checking.

[Wait, someone's covering a meal? Fuck yes he's down for that.]

I'll have to figure out just what works for him and me.

( Sansa shakes her head. While the Agrii had been kind to her the first time, Lady has not come with her this time. She supposes if it were between Lady and James, she would always choose James. )

No, Lady did not come with me this time. It is only James and I. I think that will make it easier on you to travel with us, yes?

[Yeah, to be honest, he's not remotely upset that she didn't have the pet this time. Lady really had been uncomfortable for him.]

I mean, for all I know, you're not on the Twin Roses this time. People get moved around.

It has always been my ship here but it could change, yes. I was on the Starduck back in the Fleet.

( A ship is a ship, after all, and it isn't like she cannot visit people outside of her own. )

Have you been moved around any?

Nope. I don't know why. I was gone for a few days here, though years back home. But when I came back, it was right back to the Twin Roses.

{Which he'd been okay with. It had his plants. It had Wanda.]

It's been quiet without you.

It's been slow without you.

( Perhaps a terrible joke but Sansa laughs at it all the same. Her life had slowed down considerably, had narrowed to the focus of the throne and to the concerns of her liege lords, but she'd missed the friendship and camaraderie of her family in the Fleet. She'd missed Tommy especially. )

I couldn't even keep James with me back home. I had to hide him with a nanny. I couldn't be his mother except in secret. Perhaps it's terrible but I am glad to be back.

[He's be so happy to know he was missed by someone. Sometimes he just fears he could disappear and only his brother would notice.]

What? Why did you have to do that? He's your son. He's a prince or whatever.

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