Dacey Faces Consequences

[The Stranger]

"Well you did do it. You've put us all in danger. So thanks."

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"How have I put us in danger?" Dacey asked, finding her voice. "That Royce bitch is a friend of the Weasel's. What is she going to do, close down our operations?"

[The Stranger]

"Fuck Royce, I'm not worried about her, even though she is like a big stupid cow trampling over everything we've built. I'm worried about who else will find out. You think the Beetle wouldn't have slit your throat without so much as a conversation? And there is worse than him in King's Landing. Far worse."

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Dacey shuddered. She had been in fear of the Beetle, as had everyone else. "I know," she said. Dacey looked at him for a long moment. How old was he now? She couldn't remember. Fifteen, sixteen? And still he had such a skinny look, such a narrow focus on life. Surely he had known a woman? Dacey looked at him thoughtfully.

[The Stranger]

"What?" Flea asked the dagger in his lap.

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"You're a man now, Flea. Yet you hardly visit us." She smiled.

[The Stranger]

"Why would I come here to visit you? Than people will know you work with me." Flea frowned, not understanding.


edit: Pulled a Tallahar and left out the verb.

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It was hard not to laugh, but Dacey restrained herself. No. Men hate being laughed at, even men who aren't aware they're men yet. She only smiled at him gently, and asked in a soft, kind voice, "Have you never known a woman, dear?"

[The Stranger]

In the corner Scav chuckled.

"Shut up!" Flea whispered fiercely. "I don't know what this has to do with anything." He said with a pout.

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"To be the spider of a web, to have all that power and never use it," Dacey said softly. "Such a waste. Like carrying a cask of Arbor gold and never drinking to see how heady it is, or owning a castle and living in a hut on the grounds. Have you never seen my girls? Have you never seen me? You're a man now. You can take what you want, when you want it, and how you want it."

[The Stranger]

"I've seen." Flea says, "Lord Varner says its a dangerous time, for a man, when he's with a woman. How can you know your safe?" They can steal your secrets and your life."

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"Says the crow to the raven," Dacey chuckled.

[The Stranger]

Flea's looks at Dacey with a storm in his eyes when she mentions 'the Crow.' "It's not the same thing. Not at all."

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"Tell me how you are so different from us," Dacey challenged. "Men are as devious. I was innocent of who Flea really was until tonight. And men have power, not just deception. Our only weapon is between our legs, and whatever little knives we learn to wield. I can't even read or write. You can be educated. You can beat us, dominate us, degrade us in every way. You think we don't know this? We live in fear of it every day - even richer women like me. Can you blame us for using the only weapon we have?"

Dacey paused, a little breathless and surprised at herself. She had not meant to say that.

[The Stranger]

Flea looked at Dacey, his mouth hanging open slightly as if uncertain of what she had said or why.

"Women talk to much after they get fucked too, Master Varner told me that also. Man or woman doesn't have anything to do with it."