scorched au verse
[ at first, when he awakens, Theon does not know where he is. ]
[ did I get so drunk I forgot to leave some woman's bed? but when he smacks his dry mouth, there's no taste of a night of revel, nor is there a body slid in beside him. Theon stumbles out of the bed in pitch black that resolves itself to shadows and shapes as time passes. the window, where's the fucking— ]
[ and there's the window, the moon had but dipped behind some clouds and now illuminates the familiar room, sending deja vu lancing through him. ]
[ he's swallowed by a terror so huge he has to fish out the chamberpot under the bed. Riverrun, he's in Riverrun, the little guest room as familiar to him as his rooms in Winterfell after how long the campaign had ground here to halt. Riverrun, where Catelyn Stark must yet want vengeance for two young boys she believes dead. ]
[ but Theon has had enough of pentinance. he creeps out of the rooms as quietly as if it were the chambers of a virgin princess. he tiptoes, trying to remember if this castle had horses as wells skips, deciding which he should steal to get away from here. ]
[ it doesn't occur to him that, with the door unlocked, those rooms were hardly a jail cell... ]
[ did I get so drunk I forgot to leave some woman's bed? but when he smacks his dry mouth, there's no taste of a night of revel, nor is there a body slid in beside him. Theon stumbles out of the bed in pitch black that resolves itself to shadows and shapes as time passes. the window, where's the fucking— ]
[ and there's the window, the moon had but dipped behind some clouds and now illuminates the familiar room, sending deja vu lancing through him. ]
[ he's swallowed by a terror so huge he has to fish out the chamberpot under the bed. Riverrun, he's in Riverrun, the little guest room as familiar to him as his rooms in Winterfell after how long the campaign had ground here to halt. Riverrun, where Catelyn Stark must yet want vengeance for two young boys she believes dead. ]
[ but Theon has had enough of pentinance. he creeps out of the rooms as quietly as if it were the chambers of a virgin princess. he tiptoes, trying to remember if this castle had horses as wells skips, deciding which he should steal to get away from here. ]
[ it doesn't occur to him that, with the door unlocked, those rooms were hardly a jail cell... ]