we've got friends on the other side

[nymeriarya]

Who: Arya Stark and Stiles Stilinski
When: Monday, June 10 after dinner
Where: Sharpshooter Bucks cabin.
What: The first of many mediumship tutoring sessions between these two.
Warnings: None!


After Basic Braining today, Arya'd thought she'd be tired out, but the practice has the little girl itching to go and go and go until she conks out, as usual.

Thank god Stiles was her teacher for mediumship. She'd be scared of it, had it been anyone else, b but when Stiles guided her through things - like the Basic Braining course today with Aggie - it felt easy, natural.

She moves from her table sometime after dinner, Nymeria slinking out from under the table, full and happy from the scraps she'd been slid, and makes her way to the Bucks' cabin, her little stolen sword clunking along at her side.

She's never been inside a boys' cabin before. What did one even do? Could she just come in? Maybe no one was even there.

She jiggles the door handle, just to be safe.

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[nymeriarya]

[Arya's focus is going in and out. She knows the ghost is near, judging by where her voice seems to be coming from. She can't put her finger on it, though, so she moves to get up - and when she does, her head passes through Laura's hand, and she feels a chill go over her and a presence.

This was it.

Arya looks upwards, wide eyed, and sits right back down. The ghost was right here, right in front of her, and she can sort of make out her shape - not her features, but she does know that she's tall.]

"I found the Lady Ghost. She's right in front of me. Is that right?"

[mediary]

"The Lady Ghost makes me sound like a princess, but I'm pret-ty sure that's my mom."

[Stiles presses his lips together to keep from grinning any further, reaching over and pressing a hand on Arya's shoulder. It can be exhausting trying to maintain focus, particularly with a ghost--Stiles of all people knows it--and he gives her shoulder a little squeeze as Laura recedes back towards Stiles' bed, sitting beside Nymeria and eyeing her curiously. ]

Yup. That was awesome, Arya, especially for your first lesson. You are going to kick butt at this. That's probably enough for tonight, I don't want you to pass out or anything...

[nymeriarya]

So then you're not a princess? You're tall and, well, I think you're beautiful, like all the highborn ladies in the stories.

[Not like her - not like her at all. But that's something for a different time.

But now Stiles is shooing the ghost away, and - no! She was just getting good at this!]

Stiles!

Wait, ghost! What's your name? I'm Arya!

[mediary]

[He chokes back a snort as Arya whines at him and lets Laura answer.]

Laura Hale.

[And then, just like that, Laura's gone. Stiles drops his hand from Arya's shoulders and holds up his hands, innocently.] The more you use your mediumship abilities when you're not used to them, the more tired it'll make you. It's kind of like trying to run a marathon when you just binged on twinkies. You okay?