bright lights, big city

[theladyofwinterfell]

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?

Comments

[mrsklover]

That isn't what Richie had wanted to hear. His heart sinks at the idea that going back to his universe possibly means Eddie vanishing again. Or maybe he wouldn't, like James. But it wasn't a guarantee one way or another. Which means, of course, that there is a risk of losing him all over again. For the fucking third time in his life.

He wouldn't survive it.

"Well. At least the baby got to stick around. Cutie. And here we don't care what your marital status is so boom! Another plus!"

[theladyofwinterfell]

"Yes, me being married is of absolutely no importance here," Sansa agrees.

"And that is relieving to me in ways I cannot truly express. I suppose it makes me a bad queen but I don't like leaving here. I like being the person I am here and being able to mother my son and not have to worry about anything else. It's selfish. I know it's selfish. But I can't find it in myself to care."

[mrsklover]

Richie has no idea what it's like to be a queen. Well, not a royal one, anyway. But he still feels like he can understand the weight of a responsibility and job opposing something you want more. He nods and offers a smile.

"You know what they don't tell you all that often when you're a kid?" He looks to James as though to impart the lesson on him, first. "You're allowed to be selfish. Sometimes being selfish is the only way you get anything you actually want and if you don't speak for yourself then no one else is gonna."

[theladyofwinterfell]

"They absolutely don't tell you that. In fact, they tell you the opposite if they're anything like my lady mother," Sansa says, remembering all the arguments she and Arya had when they were small.

"But you're right. If you don't ask for things all to your own, you'll never get them. I've had to learn that as an adult."