video; un: lady

[dohaeris]

[since her last video sansa has created a backdrop featuring several ravens surrounding a weirwood tree to match the one in her window. she has also acquired a blood hound, who wears a tan leather harness intricately carved with weirwood branches resembling antlers. it says 'knight.' lady is also in frame, on her other side. she wears a collar embroidered with grey velvet scales to match sansa's grey linen and scale mail dress. a black batkitten and white raven might be occasionally glimpsed wheeling around overhead. her hair is only half up, braided back and tied, and it is possible to discern its vivid shade of red.]

Hallo, for those of you that don't know me, I'm called Alayne Stone. [for now.] A blood hound has recently come into my care and I've since discovered he is capable of pulling the corruption from the blood of people just as well as he pulls pollution from the blood in the ground. As the blood blisters seem to be decreasing in number of late I would ask that anyone suffering from corruption visit us, or tell me where you are so that I might bring him to you, as he doesn't seem to eat anything else. You might ask the lantern imps for the Rookery, or seek out the weirwood in Cellar Door.

[you will find a banner in another window with a handsome portrait of knight and the pronouncement 'blood hound cleanses your blood of corruption free of charge.']

I believe this could be a great help in maintaining the health of our city. He's called Knight, and he is not very friendly, but I promise you he won't bite.

[she furrows her brow, trying not to frown overmuch.]

Is it...usual here, for the sun not to rise?

[the weather is definitely getting warmer, despite the lack of sunlight, but it is concerning. even if it is not the long night, it seems like this would be bad for the crops? she doesn't want to be the one to bring up rations, but they are already on her mind.]

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[dohaeris]

I've learned each month belongs to a different Pthumerian, though I can't say I truly understand what this means. It might go some way towards explaining the timing.

What things have you seen here, that lasted a full month?

[laruetheday]

Yeah, this is true. I don't have them all memorized, though.

[ She should probably... get on that... at some point. ]

Uh, it's usually stuff with the blood types? I guess different blood types are affected in different ways by the moon, or something. I feel okay this month so far, though. [ For once. ]

[dohaeris]

Oh, me neither. I don't know that I've memorized all their names.

[the months, and the pthumerians. both are new.]

I was told that only those with pale blood saw the false mushrooms, but they seem to be gone now. Are they all like that?

[laruetheday]

Yeah, same. [ It's total stubbornness on her part. It feels somehow like a betrayal to the gods she's familiar with. ]

Right. Kind of. It depends. One time we could figure out when people were lying to us, but another month we just had terrible headaches. I'm a paleblood, too.

[dohaeris]

[sansa thinks of them less like gods and more like the children of the forest, if the children of the forest were sometimes mad and very destructive. she's not used to gods that walk around and do things, except as moral instruction.]

I don't want headaches, I'd never get anything done. Couldn't the blood ministers do anything? Don't they have any willow bark?

[she's suddenly not sure if there are even willow trees.]

[laruetheday]

[ Clarisse just shrugs. ]

Being around a vileblood helped. That's all I know.

[dohaeris]

It's good to be together. It seems to help with quite a lot of things.

[the pack survives. she's still going to look out for willow bark, though.]

[laruetheday]

Yeah. Seems like it.

I'm Clarisse, by the way.

[dohaeris]

It's good to meet you, Clarisse. I wish you luck with whatever this month brings us.

[laruetheday]

I don't need luck. Thanks, though. You too.

[dohaeris]

[a wry smile.]

You must have an abundance of it. I'm afraid I have to take what I can get.

Thank you.

[laruetheday]

Not so much luck as skill.

[ She's totally full of shit, anyway, since this place screws with her mind more than anything. ]

[dohaeris]

Skill is very useful on a level playing field.

[she is both concerned and attempting some verbal sparring for fun.]