[Smoking seas and Frozen ones... She had read of the varieties in her books, how the further north or south one went the colder it became, until sailing became impossible and it was only ice as far as one could see. Steaming, perhaps that counted as smoking, she had hard of those as well, water that bubbled and frothed, boiled from beneath and heated by the earth...
But seeing it was another thing entirely, wasn't it. Her eyes are wide and fairly sparkling with the joy of a first time wonder, gaze flicking up as the shadow passed over the sun but not getting a good enough look, simply assuming it to be a native species.
It took effort to briefly turn her gaze towards Daenerys, but it was only polite to at least look at the person part of the time, right, her eyes soon returning to that blurry line where sky and sea met.]
What did you become instead?
[As nostalgic as they could be, she'd learned long ago that there wasn't much use in dwelling on the "wanted to" and "could have" sort of thoughts. She'd wanted to be able to skip and run and play, and if she could have just been a little more observant...
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But seeing it was another thing entirely, wasn't it. Her eyes are wide and fairly sparkling with the joy of a first time wonder, gaze flicking up as the shadow passed over the sun but not getting a good enough look, simply assuming it to be a native species.
It took effort to briefly turn her gaze towards Daenerys, but it was only polite to at least look at the person part of the time, right, her eyes soon returning to that blurry line where sky and sea met.]
What did you become instead?
[As nostalgic as they could be, she'd learned long ago that there wasn't much use in dwelling on the "wanted to" and "could have" sort of thoughts. She'd wanted to be able to skip and run and play, and if she could have just been a little more observant...
Better to think of the present and the future.]