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“You look taller than I remember.. you finally grew that inch you were in dire need of.” 

“I... I’m sorry. I don’t know what came over me.” It takes him moving away for Talia to be able to do something as simple as turn her head to observe his figure become smaller and smaller. Her own clothed fingertips traces her bottom lip, sighing hopelessly. She hopes this will not cause a strain between the two. 

“You don’t belong here,” she said solidly. “Neither of us do. You’ve served your time here, and I’ve served mine elsewhere. We have a responsibility to take Winterfell back, now.” She had been prepared for Jon’s refusal, and equally prepared not to accept it. They belonged in Winterfell. There was nowhere else for them that could ever be home, nowhere else that needed their presence as much as they needed to be there.

“You don’t seem to understand. They don’t fight for you because they do not want to fight for themselves. They fight for you because they believe in you. They fight for you because they know with you leading them, they will be confident enough to fight for themselves when and if the time comes. Talk can only do so much until it is proven otherwise. If there is talk, there is talk. But you know better. Your brothers are alive because of you, they will continue to fight for what they believe in because of you. That is why they chose you to lead them. You are who they wish they could be, Jon.” 

“You are not a monster,” she reinstates, “you are a leader.” She will not let him believe this. His entire life, he has been passed off as nothing. Now, he is something, and he breaks himself down to nothing once more. Never again. Talia will do all it takes to make Jon realize how important he is to people. “People looked to you and fought for you, they still look to you, and yes, they died for you. But people looked to your brother, Robb, and fought for him and died for him -- one of those people being my father. But does that make Robb a monster? No, he was a leader. He would only be a monster if he was the one that lunged the sword into my father’s chest.” Her footsteps echo through the hall as she travels closer towards Jon. “There is no difference. People believe in you like they believed in Robb, and people are willing to do a lot for those they believe in. That doesn’t make you a monster.” 

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“I don’t know. That’s the point of a question, you’re the one that’s supposed to answer it. If I knew the answer, I wouldn’t be asking you now would I?” Ygritte replied stubbornly, folding her fur covered arms over her chest. It had only been a simple question, she hadn’t expected him to react that way. All the redhead had asked was what he thought the future held, but apparently the future was a touchier subject than she’d realised