[sansa doesn't laugh, but it's a near thing. she's never sure. and when she told vi about littlefinger, she'd said that jinx had someone like that in her life too. besides, jinx sounds very like sandor again. a dog doesn't need to be brave to chase off rats.]

No, I'm not sure. It's hard to tell what he wants. But he's a friend to the Lady Amaterasu, and she had a better nose than even Lady. She's in the ocean, now, but she left us her Sanctuary Trees to cleanse corruption and blood pollution.

[do fish have noses? lady ammako's senses were probably not impaired by her fish form. certainly she had others.]

There is a man like that here, though. The Reckoning got him, but he's come back before. His name's John Gaius and his eyes are black where they should be white. He tried to murder the Patron of the ocean, Mariana, and kill everybody in it.

[come to think of it, jinx had been in the ocean at that time. sansa glances at her.]

Did you feel the storm underwater at all? It was very powerful, and many of us got our magic caught up in it, which took weeks to sort out.

[one week for sansa, but an indeterminably long time spent in dreamspace, which confuses things in her mind a little.]

That's why there were so many storms and creatures coming from the ocean last month. It belonged to the Lady Mariana, and she was very angry.