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[ The image is that of young man with longish white hair that's been pulled back in a low ponytail. Seventeen or eighteen maybe, with a bright red mark on his face that looks somewhere between a scar and a tattoo as much as it stems from a mark that's also halfway between a star or an inverted pentagram. Garishly out of place on an otherwise pale and muted complexion and gentle face. ]

With a lot of the city shut down because of the snow, if there's anyone having trouble finding food or shelter, Sanctuary in Crenshaw will be helping whoever it can. It might not be much, but it can be a meal or warm bed for the night. [ And hope everyone likes fish, because there's a lot of that that's been salted and stockpiled. But also a lot of baked things served with some of the corruption-cleansing jams from earlier in the year.

Which, anyone who already volunteers there... you can bet you were already cheerfully accosted and asked to help, soup kitchen style. ♥ It's a team effort. ✧ Either that or clearing snow; it's a big place... albeit warm itself this month, and shining like a jewel from the lunar lighting and heating within. The renovated Moon Presence monastery seems to be taking the blindingly bright bone moon and reflecting it back in a gentler manner for anyone inside. ]

There isn't a cost. Just try to help out however you can when you're able.

[ He pauses, about to leave it at that but hesitating. Expression still neutrally polite and composed, but... flickering for a moment. ]

...if anyone would like to help closer to when Christmas would normally be, it'd be nice to do something special for the orphanage as well. Maybe donate some presents for them.

[ That's it. He'll just quietly leave it at that. ]

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This shall be a winter to weed out the weak ones and leave only the strongest to rule come springtime.

[ ...squinting at this a little... suspiciously. ]

Are you saying that in... warning?

[ Because it also kinda sounds hopeful... ]

More just as commentary on the situation. Such a thing always happens in nature.

[..............Maul, this was civilization, not the middle of the woods.]

[very stern eyebrows!!]

We're all strongest together. I was always taught that in winter, the lone wolf may die, but the pack survives. '

[she frowns thoughtfully.]

It's a lord's responsibility to see his people through the winter. That's what it means to rule.

My number one priority is making sure I survive. After that, I can worry about everyone else.

[Of course, that didn't mean Maul didn't care about the survival of his family, friends, and cult at all. To the contrary. He'd make sure all of them got through this with minimal suffering.]

[sansa's impression of the sith is that they are astonishingly bad at government, but she'd be lying if she said the lords of westeros never seemed to think this way. she speaks patiently and evenly, as if she were explaining a simple matter of policy.]

If everyone has enough, that means you do too, and no one has to waste time squabbling. House Stark survived thousands of winters much longer than a few months by looking after our people well enough that they wanted us to rule.

I bought in stock for the Sanctuary at every harvest, and for my own household, and I've been making woolens and cloaks and things for ages so everyone will have enough. That way, I can protect everyone, and myself, not only from freezing and starving, but from all manner of strife. It's one of the ways we fight corruption here at the Sanctuary; people succumb to corruption when they're miserable and suffering, so we try to make it so they suffer less, in whatever ways we can.

The trouble comes when there is not enough to go around. And that happens more often than not.

[Limited resources was something that Maul understood quite well. Due to the Clone Wars back home, many planets didn't have enough of even the essentials like electricity or clean water. Ruling Mandalore, Maul had been aware of this, given the planet itself had been put through so much strife in years past that was incapable of sustaining life outside of its domed cities. Almost everything that allowed its citizen to live had to be brought in.]

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