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[theonsource]

THEON MONTH 2022 || Day 1: Favorite Book or Arc

A Dance with Dragons

It felt like some strange underworld, some timeless place between the worlds, where the damned wandered mournfully for a time before finding their way down to whatever hell their sins had earned them. Are we all dead, then? Did Stannis come and kill us in our sleep? Is the battle yet to come, or has it been fought and lost?

... Theon found himself wondering if he should say a prayer. Will the old gods hear me if I do? They were not his gods, had never been his gods. He was ironborn, a son of Pyke, his god was the Drowned God of the islands... but Winterfell was long leagues from the sea. It had been a lifetime since any god had heard him. He did not know who he was, or what he was, why he was still alive, why he had ever been born.

"Theon," a voice seemed to whisper. His head snapped up. "Who said that?" All he could see were the trees and the fog that covered them. The voice had been as faint as rustling leaves, as cold as hate. A god's voice, or a ghost's. How many died the day that he took Winterfell? How many more the day he lost it? The day that Theon Greyjoy died, to be reborn as Reek. Reek, Reek, it rhymes with shriek.

[selkiewife]

Robb Month, Week One: Theon || Prompt: Memory

Theon remembering Robb in A Dance With Dragons.

@month-of-robb

[stormborns]

Chapters of A Song of Ice & Fire - A Dance With Dragons - Daenerys VIII      No queen has clean hands, Dany told herself. She thought of Doreah, of Quaro, of Eroeh...of a little girl she had never met, whose name had been Hazzea. Better a few should die in the pit than thousands at the gates. This is the price of peace, I pay it willingly. If I look back, I am lost.

[selkiewife]

everyone deserves that much, however big or small

"If we were free," said Penny, "we could find the queen. Or go search for her, at least... We could sail to Qarth," Penny went on. "The streets are paved with jade there, my brother always said. The city walls are one of the wonders of the world. When we perform in Qarth, gold and silver will rain down on us, you'll see."

~ A Dance with Dragons

PENNY For ASOIAF MINOR LADIES WEEK || Prompt: Commoners @asoiafminorhouses @asoiafwomensource

[selkiewife]

Monsters and Maidens 

This is the fic I wrote for the @theonficexchange for NateFraust. It explores the missing scene in A Dance with Dragons where Theon meets with Abel (Mance) and the Washerwomen (the Spearwives) to discuss the plan to save Arya Stark (Jeyne.) 

[stormborns]

Chapters of A Song of Ice & Fire - A Dance With Dragons - Prologue      The Thenns, the giants, and the Hornfoot men, the cave-dwellers with their filed teeth, and the men of the western shore with their chariots of bone...all of them were doomed as well. Even the crows. They might not konw it yet, but those black-cloaked bastards would perish with the rest. The enemy was coming.

[stormborns]

Chapters of A Song of Ice & Fire - A Dance With Dragons - Jon I      “This is my place as it is yours, and soon enough you may have grave need of me. Do not refuse my friendship, Jon. I have seen you in the storm, hard-pressed, with enemies on every side. You have so many enemies. Shall I tell you their names?”      “I know their names.”      “Do not be so certain.” The ruby at Melisandre’s throat gleamed red. “It is not the foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your back. You would do well to keep your wolf close beside you. Ice, I see, and daggers in the dark. Blood frozen red and hard, and naked steel. It was very cold.”      “It is always cold on the Wall.”      “You think so?”      “I know so, my lady.”      “Then you know nothing, Jon Snow,” she whispered.

[tame-wolf]

Dragons plant no trees.