five times arya visits storm’s end - and one time she stays.
Sneak Peek — coming soon…
“You’re mad at me.” She smirks at him, a hint of amusement in her tone that is only exaggerated by the quirk of her eyebrow.
“Yes, well… you used me,” he curtly replies, and it’s sharper than he intended. But the harsh lines on his face soften when he sees the turmoil brewing in her stormy eyes. He can’t look at them for long without feeling pulled in by them, so his gaze falls back to his goblet of wine. “You said you could be my family, once. And then when the time came to pay up, you fled.”
Arya can’t stand the way he won’t look at her now, so she nears him, instead.
“Are you mad that I rejected your proposal? Or that I don’t want to be a lady-?”
“I’m mad about the way you left,” he blurts out quickly, as though he might lose his nerve if he doesn’t. He tries in vain to seem unmoved, unbothered by her presence, but his voice betrays him as he says, “You didn’t even say goodbye. You may not have wanted me as a husband, and that’s fine. I can live with that. But I at least thought you were still a decent friend.”
He can hear her sigh and realizes she’s moved even closer to him. And although he is resistant, she lightly forces his gaze to hers as she softly wonders, “Say that I had said yes.”
Gendry’s eyes search hers for some kind of meaning, some kind of reassurance behind such a cryptic notion, but he finds none.
“Say I became your lady and wore silk dresses and stood by your side here in Storm’s End…” She nearly smiles as she muses these thoughts aloud and it’s infectious; Gendry can’t help but feel the corners of his mouth lift in reciprocation. But the moment passes as she finally asks him, “Would you really be able to live with the fact that being here with you that way would be killing the biggest part of me?”
five times arya visits storm’s end - and one time she stays.
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