Tyrion and Prince Oberyn - A New Alliance

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As she led  Tyrion, Oberyn and Ellaria them away from the combat area, where her aviaut was hidden in some bushes she longed to know if her planned speech, had gone as well as she thought. 

"What did you think? I practiced that speech several times! I really wanted to make a grand entrance, did I pull it off?"

She was surprised at how mindlessly they followed her, as if she knew exactly where she was going which she did, but only because of this:

"Saty, guide me to my aviaut."

Steffana had hidden her aviaut somewhere behind Aegon's hill, close to the Blackwater Bay, but she really had no idea where it was until the Saty lit  an ultra violet path for her.  Of course, they couldn't see it being totally human. 

" I have never seen my father so completely humiliated by an adversary! It was the vindication that I have been waiting for my entire life!"

Prince Oberyn interrupts. 

"What of my justice!"

She knew Oberyn would not  let it go. He wasn't designed to. She might have  to hack that vengeance program out of him, but she hoped he could be more easily adjusted. She simply said to him,

" You have your life, isn't that enough?"

Tyrion added,

"She does have a point...things were not going to turn out well for you, with your pursuit of justice at any cost."

As she squinted in her attempts to follow the UV directions, that conflicted with the sunlight, Stef followed up with, 

"Oberyn,  however the scenario played out, you were not going to bring down Tywin Lannister."

"But you said, had it played it out, he would have died. I want to know who would have killed this man!"

Checking her costume for her visors, she absently remarked, "Tyrion, actually." 

"Me! I would have killed my father? How would such a thing have even been possible, after he sentenced me to death?"

Awww, she really didn't have time for all of this now...tryig to adjust to the full immersion experience. The nature, the details were just incredible...but the sunlight! So real. It was blinding! Her eyes filed with tears.

"Well, Tywin was not just responsible for the brutal murder of a Elia Martell and her children, there was that whole Tysha incident."

Tyrion asked, intrepidly, "Can you...do you know whatever happened to Tysha?"

Oh...could she make any more mistakes! GAW, what a foot in her mouth!

"Well yes, maybe, but it's all parallell time streams- so not not really. And now you don't have to kill your father. Promise me that you won't kill your father?"

She was pleading with him, because, just like Oberyn, Tyrion was designed to kill his father. There was a 70% chance of it happening, but she didn't want it to go like that.

"Well why can't he kill his father?" Prince Oberyn demanded. "Nothing would make me happier than for Tyrion to kill his father!"

Tyrion angrily demanded,

"Tell me the truth! About Tysha!"

Tears, her entire face with drenched with them.

"What is this deep dark secret that drove this man to patricide? Who is Tysha? I must know of this!"

Nearly blind, Steffana stopped, closed her eyes and wiped her face. She covered her eyes for a bit, just for a bit of relief.

"What is wrong with her face?" She heard Oberyn asking.

"She's a witch!" That was Ellaria.

"Are you all right, Lady Steffana?" Tyrion asked with mild concern.

A few deep breaths, hopefully some shade, and she could make it.  What was she thinking, leaving without her visors!

"I'm fine...it's just my eyes. The sun in this world is too harsh for them. It's blinding, and I need my visors."

They were confused so she said, "Nevermind. As for Tysha, I will answer both your queries as best I can, but, before  I reveal anything further, you both must agree, living well is the best revenge. There shouldn't be any further attacks on Tywin...it's for the good of the realm."

Prince Oberyn demands,

"I want my justice!"

While Tyrion asked quietly, "What do you know about the fate of Tysha?"

Steffana ignored them both and continued, self-righteously,

"There is a bigger picture than the horrific injustices suffered by any one person. There has to be a way to turn the horroriffic tragedies of Elias Martell and Tysha Commongirl, into something positive for the both of you,"

Steffana turns to Prince Oberyn and says,

"For all intents and purposes, you got your confession, it was on the VWIP."

"What was that monstrous vision that you brought forth...and how did you do it?" Oberyn asked Steffana.

"Yes, do tell how does the VWIP, as you call it, work; and can you use it to show me what became of Tysha?" Tyrion asked.

"I could Tyrion, but I won't. The last thing I want to do is cause anymore problems between you and Tywin. What I need for you to understand is that several bullets have been dodged today."

"And what are these bullets, that you speak of and how have they been dodged?" Tyrion inquired to Steffana.

"Oh right, guns haven't been invented yet. There is much time and space between my world and yours, I don't know where to begin even. Let's start wth Tysha...in your world and in mind, a whore is a whore is a whore, but, and I need you to promise to keep a cool head about this, do your promise?"

He had grown terribly silent. He considered the question, and then responded,

"I will make no promises until I know the fate of Tysha."

"Fine! be that way! You're so difficult.  Tysha was no whore. She was, actually, just common at the wrong place a the wrong time. Deadly, for a young girl. Often, in my world and yours. "

"Do you mean to tell me I was deceived into believing Tysha was a whore when in fact-"

"Yes...I'm sorry. I know how devastating this moment is for you."

"Do you really? I don't think you can even begin to imagine..."

"I can't but...I have the VWIP...and I know that it was this revelation that drove you to murder your father. Let's all watch shall we. "

Steffana pulled out her codex and requested the scene.  As Tyrion,  Oberyn and Ellaria  watched the 3-D image of the showdown between Tyrion and Tywin, Steffana tried to collect her thoughts as to how she can convince these two to become the strangest allies ever.

After the showdown between Tyrion and Tywin flickered out of existence, a sober Tyrion and a finally speechless Prince Oberyn sat in silence for a few moments.  Finally Oberyn said,

"That was justice."

Steffana quietly agreed, "Maybe. But the death of the hand plunged the realm into chaos. Cersei was left to guide Tommen as a King, and she proved to be a ruler much like Joffrey...inadequate, incompetent, sadistic...is that justice?"

Tyrion and Oberyn seemed to consider if it was. Steffana swiftly proposed,

"I think that the two of you should form an alliance...because such a thing would make Tywin Lannister very uneasy. And everyone wins, and no one gets killed. Also remember, if it had gone your way," Steffana turned to Prince Oberyn,

"You'd be dead now."

Next she turned to Tyrion,

"You'd be a criminal and an outlaw, at the mercy of this ancient world, which is brutal, to a dwarf with no wealth. But now you've got a new lease...you can find your wife Sansa and you can become the Warden of the North."

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