few comments about Chapter 15:
- Throwing a good party is a life-sustaining skill that any Lady of a Keep would need to cultivate, and Sansa is next-leveling it by throwing a banquet in the middle of a siege. With everyone about ready to collapse, this is a major contribution to the war effort. Also, would 100% attend a Sansa Stark party.
- If youāre wondering where all that food came from, credit those long chapters in ASOIAF of people looking over the food stores for the winter and the massive quantities of food they have put away for a potential years-long winter. The show also mentioned Sansa has bulked the food stores up in Winterfell. So dipping into the reserves for one night will not break them, and as Jaime points out, all those supplies will go to waste if no one is alive to eat them.
- I think it would be kind of cool if the real point of Aryaās time in Braavos is not that she becomes a badass assassin but that she learns how to navigate confidently in the dark. Skills that just might come in handy during The Long Night!
- Surprise party animals: Jon Snow, The Hound, Davos Seaworth, Podrick Payne. Wallflowers: Brienne of Tarth, Daenerys Targaryen, Sam and Gilly, Sansa Stark. On good behavior this time (but would probably be swinging from chandeliers if circumstances were a tiny bit different): Tyrion Lannister, Jaime Lannister
- Jaimeās friend list is slowly expanding. So is Brienneās.
- I just need Brienne and The Hound to be bros okay
- Stark Sibling approaches to their love lives: avoid, send confusing signals, or both.
- Jaime and Brienne really needed to talk things out, and Arya gave them just the right push to do it. Turns out they had a lot to say.Ā
- Turns out thereās well over 20k words this chapter?? After a certain point I was afraid to look. I apologize if this makes it difficult to read. Iām probably shooting myself in the foot not allowing readers more space to digest with so much happening. But I think of these as more like book chapters than conventional fic chapters and I felt I needed all of this to hang together as one unit. I donāt think Iāll ever do another fic with chapters this long but it is what it is at this point.
- Even my notes are wordy, sigh
