[ later is the time to consider this further. right now, everything in robb is determined to get them away safely. they cannot linger. he doesn't trust the tentative peace here, the prone figure on the ground. nothing works according to logical law, and robb wants to retreat as quickly as possible before something bigger and more threatening makes itself known. ]
Then let's go. Come, keep up with me.
[ and the illusion of adulthood and kingship shatters as robb reaches out to grab hold of gendry. it's a tight grip, terror betrayed by how he clutches like he's scared of them parting, of being left on his own and of losing them. ]
idk what happens now DOES THE DREAM COLLAPSE
Then let's go. Come, keep up with me.
[ and the illusion of adulthood and kingship shatters as robb reaches out to grab hold of gendry. it's a tight grip, terror betrayed by how he clutches like he's scared of them parting, of being left on his own and of losing them. ]