( open ) I seen the sun coming up at the funeral at dawn

[freewoman]

Date & Time: Current
Location: Northern part of the city
Characters: Ygritte and open
Summary: Gathering supplies
Warnings: None?

She had said for awhile now she was heading North, but enough had happened to get in the way. Being in her own body again meant she could at least try and plan for the journey. She couldn't explain her need to do it other than it was the only piece of home she really had. It was the only thing that made her remotely happy.

These weren't her people, and while she liked a few, it was hard enough explaining her ways to them. Her ways were the old ways, the old gods. The ones not even here with no heart tree in sight. With it's metal buildings and it's modern technology. Ygritte didn't much like any of it.

So she found herself trading for dried meats. If she could get a horse it'd be even better. That's what she wanted before she made that kind of a journey, something to take her there and back again. She didn't much trust engines either.

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[freewoman]

She couldn't help but find herself smiling at the girl. She seemed smart, smarter than most double or more her age. "There's not much. A lot of land, but there's the sea and more land beyond it." That was what she thought of. The land was not allowed to them, and not the first she had been in a similar situation.

[treehopping]

"You're not afraid, of the bad people? The one's we're supposed to be fighting?"

[freewoman]

"I've been fightin' people like then me whole life. It doesn't change anything here," Ygritte told her, leveling the younger girl a look. "Where I'm from, they did the same thing t'my people. Only they put up a Wall. They invade our lands, take our people. So we fight back."

[treehopping]

"Your people must be brave." What would it be like if the people of the districts would do that... but they had failed before, seen a district wiped out entirely for it. They were outgunned and watched like hawks always.

[freewoman]

"You have t'be where I'm from. If you want anything." It explained her tough exterior, the way she carried herself. "Y'never let anyone tell y'what t'do, just cuz they think they're better than you. They do something t'you, you do it right back. And worse. Got it?"

[treehopping]

"What if they're stronger than you, what if they have better weapons?"

[freewoman]

She gave her a look, a slow smile spreading. "Then y'find ways to beat'em. And if y'can't at least you fought your best. And y'lived."

[treehopping]

Rue blinks and then slowly smiles back. She wishes the people at home could do that, maybe, someday... though she knows she'll never see it. "My name's Rue, what's yours?"

[freewoman]

She found herself smiling back. The girl seemed like a clever, little thing. "I'm Ygritte." And it was rare for her to actually be glad of meeting someone.

[treehopping]

"It's nice to meet you, Ygritte." She's never heard a name like that before. "When are you going away?"

[freewoman]

"When I manage t'get me enough supplies." Her plans weren't exactly set in stone. She just lived each day, doing what she wanted.

[treehopping]

"You must need a lot of them for such a long journey." Especially when she didn't know if there'd be places to get more out there.

[freewoman]

"Can't really put a date on when I'm t'leave. But I'm getting there." It was something she could work towards. It was nice to have a goal of sorts.

[treehopping]

Rue nods. She thinks for a moment, "Do you think there's real plants out there, safe plants? I'm normally really good with plants but what I've found here I don't recognise."

Likely because she grew up in North America and this is England, that thought hasn't crossed her mind just yet.

[freewoman]

"I've heard there are patches of grass and the like, but I'm not one for trustin' it." Ygritte would rather not be poisoned.

[treehopping]

"It's really terrible, that the world ended up so bad." Even her world hadn't ended up so bad, not so bad that the very plants couldn't be eaten. "I don't like being stuck in a city all the time."

[freewoman]

"You should travel. Not much out there, but it's no city," she told her as she moved toward another stall. Ygritte would rather the dead waste than the buildings and all the metal. It's too confining.

[treehopping]

With nothing else to do Rue steps after her. "At home we were never allowed to travel, and the last place I was you physically couldn't. It'd be nice."

[freewoman]

"One o' them kings, aye?" Ygritte questioned, picking up a piece of fruit before dropping it.