[ When Cisco announces that he's found a way out of the Clock, that everyone can go home, Arya doesn't join in the commotion. She doesn't fight to leave first. If anything, she hangs back. She's happy for the people who are excited to leave, but Arya isn't excited at all. She doesn't want to go back to Westeros. The Clock was more of a home than Arya's own world ever was. When she learns that Cisco couldn't make contact with her world anyway, she's almost relieved.
What she wishes for isn't Westeros. She wishes that Jon and Sansa were here, that they got to be set free too. Sansa's disappearance was Arya's worst nightmare come true, proof that she was right to be afraid when her sister first vanished temporarily. When Jon left, it was unfathomably worse. Arya had searched for him for years, and found him at last, only for him to be yanked away from her again. And Arya knows that if she goes back to Westeros, there's no way she'll find him. She won't be his sister anymore.
Which means the only family she has left is Cisco. Arya sits next to him, poking the sprinkles in her ice cream. She doesn't have much of an appetite right now. The decision is a difficult one. On the one hand, Arya wants to stay in the Clock -- she knows it's safe here, and she knows little about Central City. But that would mean that Cisco wouldn't get to go home, and that isn't fair to him. If there's a chance he can bring Sansa and Jon back to Central City...that would be the best option, wouldn't it? ]
I think...I think I would like to come to Central City. With you. If you still want me there -- I don't want to be a burden.
[ Arya can take care of herself if she has to. She doesn't want to lose Cisco, but she doesn't want to tie him down, either. He's probably got better things to do than shelter a little alien girl. Talking about taking her to Central City is all well and good, actually doing it is another matter entirely. ]
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What she wishes for isn't Westeros. She wishes that Jon and Sansa were here, that they got to be set free too. Sansa's disappearance was Arya's worst nightmare come true, proof that she was right to be afraid when her sister first vanished temporarily. When Jon left, it was unfathomably worse. Arya had searched for him for years, and found him at last, only for him to be yanked away from her again. And Arya knows that if she goes back to Westeros, there's no way she'll find him. She won't be his sister anymore.
Which means the only family she has left is Cisco. Arya sits next to him, poking the sprinkles in her ice cream. She doesn't have much of an appetite right now. The decision is a difficult one. On the one hand, Arya wants to stay in the Clock -- she knows it's safe here, and she knows little about Central City. But that would mean that Cisco wouldn't get to go home, and that isn't fair to him. If there's a chance he can bring Sansa and Jon back to Central City...that would be the best option, wouldn't it? ]
I think...I think I would like to come to Central City. With you. If you still want me there -- I don't want to be a burden.
[ Arya can take care of herself if she has to. She doesn't want to lose Cisco, but she doesn't want to tie him down, either. He's probably got better things to do than shelter a little alien girl. Talking about taking her to Central City is all well and good, actually doing it is another matter entirely. ]