bookhousestark:ARYA STARK APPRECIATION MONTH 2022↳ Day 17: Relationship with trauma → Arya&rsqu
bookhousestark:ARYA STARK APPRECIATION MONTH 2022↳ Day 17: Relationship with trauma → Arya’s trauma after the Red WeddingShe could feel the hole inside her every morning when she woke. It wasn’t hunger, though sometimes there was that too. It was a hollow place, an emptiness where her heart had been, where her brothers had lived, and her parents. Her head hurt too. Not as bad as it had at first, but still pretty bad. Arya was used to that, though, and at least the lump was going down. But the hole inside her stayed the same. The hole will never feel any better, she told herself when she went to sleep. Some mornings Arya did not want to wake at all. She would huddle beneath her cloak with her eyes squeezed shut and try to will herself back to sleep. If the Hound would only have left her alone, she would have slept all day and all night. And dreamed. -- source link
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