For Sansa

[shieldmaiden_rohan]

 The days grew colder and they reminded Eowyn more and more of her own land as they shortened and darkened.  She was still alone in this place, even with the friends that she had, and she missed her people.  She missed the weather, the smell of fires to keep warm as the harvest was brought in, and the way the horses' fur grew more shaggy to keep them warm.   Bleod was, in Eowyn's mind, best seen with a full winter coat, even though it also meant much grooming in the spring as the mare lost the now-unneeded coat.  

Today she was grooming her mare in the shelter of the practice yards at the stables and speaking to her mare quietly in Rohirric.  One of the other horses had been nippy today, and Bleod's fur was ruffled in multiple ways.   Eowyn was wearing garments more suited to Rohan than to here, since it was cold, and knew that she was an interesting sight, with her horse and her attire and the way she spoke.  She did not care.  She was of the Mark, and so she would always be.

When another person came closer, she looked up and smiled at the young woman.

"Well-met, Lady."

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[shieldmaiden_rohan]

"There may be a home available for you," Eowyn noted. "There have been some that have departed here, and their dwellings were left. I do not know what condition they are in, but you could speak with someone about it if you would wish."

She had been fortunate that her dwelling had been left and she had been able to show to the city that she had known the former inhabitant. She cared for the Lady Galadriel's treehouse as well, though she had never dwelled in it. She was not a creature of the trees as the Lady had been. The Rohirrim were creatures of the land.

[facethetruth]

"I ought to look into that," Sansa says, pleased by the idea. Nothing will be what she's used to, not in a place like this, and she's learning to be alright with that. Regardless of the condition, though, she does think she would prefer somewhere quieter out in the country than the apartment where she lives now. The extra space might be nice, too, though she's not used to having to care for her own lodgings. There have always been other people to do that for her.

"It's still not terribly far from everything else, but not right in the middle of it, either. I think I'd like that."

[shieldmaiden_rohan]

"Indeed so," Eowyn replied, in agreement with all parts of that statement. "And it is not as far from the stables as the Ocean View Apartments, so that you may ride as often as you like."

That was a detail that was most important to her, though she did not know its importance to Lady Sansa.

[facethetruth]

"I would like that," Sansa says with a smile. At least it's one way of feeling closer to home, different as even this part of Darrow may be to look at. She'll take what she can get on that front, since actually going home is out of the question. She still wishes she were there, certain that she would be happier that way, but it isn't as if there's anything she can do about that.

"Thank you for the advice. I think it was easier, when I got here, just to stay where they put me, but now there's no need to."

[shieldmaiden_rohan]

“Of a certainty it would be,” Eowyn agreed. “This world is so different from the worlds that we left that some measure of simplicity and certainty is welcome at first. But when it is not needed, it can become less useful and more confining.”

She was confident the Lady Sansa would move into the countryside in due time.