First little lie ♰ Keep me breathing as the water rises up again

[beingdifferent]

[The first image the camera captures is a pair of large brown eyes, blinking sleepily before widening. They dart back and forth as their owner pulls the communicator back, showing a small pale face framed by dark curls, mouth curled into a frown. Zoom back a little more and the starry expanse from the deck is visible in the background.

The girl in the foreground bites at her bottom lip, licks it, looks around again before frowning at the communicator. She pulls it up closer, staring at the screen, and speaks one word with a distinct note of fear in her voice.]

...Mommy?

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[beingdifferent]

Do I look like a woman to you?

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

You don't look like a man.

[beingdifferent]

Neither do you.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Now we know you're not blind.

[beingdifferent]

And we know you're not very clever with words.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

I'm cleverer than you.

[beingdifferent]

Of course.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Clever enough to spot a liar.

[beingdifferent]

I didn't poison anyone.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Then you hurt someone.

[beingdifferent]

That wasn't my fault!

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

[HAH] What did you do?

[beingdifferent]

I don't have to tell you anything.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Your warden'll know, when you're assigned.

[beingdifferent]

What's a warden?

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

There are wardens and inmates. Wardens have to - redeem their inmates.

[beingdifferent]

Redeeming is what happens in church.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

What's a church?

[beingdifferent]

You don't know what a church is?

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Do you know what a maester is?

[beingdifferent]

Yes. You're pronouncing it wrong.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

I am not.

[beingdifferent]

It's "master." Even I know that and this isn't my language.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

That's a different word, you stupid. A master is your master. A maester's a healer. and a teacher, and an - adviser.

Everyone knows that.

[beingdifferent]

Nobody knows that where I come from.