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Basic Strategy, Monday, 10/03

"Welcome to class," Tyrion said, once they'd gathered in the usual classroom. "I hope you enjoyed seeing your families or guardians, if they came; a few of them spoke with me. I promise I said nothing incriminating."

"This is a fairly easy week -- for me, not for you. I just have to read the names on this piece of paper, then you're to take care of the rest of it. I drew names at random to pair you up. Each pair is to spend some time together over the course of the week discussing something each of you might teach the other, and perhaps beginning some instruction in it. I don't especially care what the skill is, but please, nothing illegal, particularly immoral, or likely to get you killed."

He was betting on the last element being the hardest.

"You can either spend today as a discussion session, or leave with your partner to go work on whatever you're teaching each other. Next week, we'll discuss what we learned."

And with that, he took out the sheet and began to read.

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"You have been deemed 'not bad with a blade for a wench,'" Tyrion informed her, with the slightest wince. Well, she wasn't quitting or in tears, and she still seemed to have four limbs. Not a total disaster on any score.

"From my brother that's high praise. How do you think it went?"

"Not bad for a guy accustomed to calling women 'wench'." It would appear none of those he'd called this before had killed or maimed him either, which spoke to his skill.

"Is there something important about being a Lannister back home then?" It had seemed so the way Jaime talked.

Tyrion took the fact Lannister was the second most important thing about him so much for granted that the question drew him up short; it was like being asked why the ground was down and the sky was up. It just was.

"It's a very wealthy, very old house," he said, trying to be general. "Our father is lord of a rich bit of earth. Our sister is the king's wife. So yes, it's a name that people take note of."

He left out Jaime's particular claim to fame, as it were. No point spreading stories of regicide to impressionable ears.

Given he was talking to a girl who spent the best part of her life preparing to kill her own father, perhaps impressionable wasn't the right word to describe Kate's ears. Regicide might not bother her as much as it would others.

Still, what he had said helped to connect a few dots. "He talks like someone not used to being questioned," she noted.

"I'll take meeting some sort of approval as a compliment." Even if 'wench' was not her preferred nickname.

"I think most of that is just Jaime, and he'd be much the same if his father were a fishmonger," Tyrion said. "Hard to say, really. I was a child when he became a knight. Either way -- you're right. He doesn't tend to blunt his opinions to spare others' feelings."

Not that Tyrion was exactly the soul of tact himself.

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"Women aren't generally fighters in your world?" she was assuming. Either that or sexism was just rampant.

Tyrion shook his head. "Not with a sword, at least."

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