Dany gives him a helpless look, not understanding, precisely. How can she not stay? However much she mistrusts all that ALASTAIR commands, these people are in need, and their plight is an unkind one. She would be unkinder still to walk away. ]
I am a queen, [ she tells him, simply. ] I will go where I am needed. It is my place to protect those who cannot protect themselves.
[ Her book had taught her that. A book writ at the hand of some wise maester long ago, a tome as lost to her as the man who had given her its gift. Viserys had never believed in such things, but she must, or else she is no better than he was.
A fluttering of wings stirs the air around her, and Drogon alights upon her arm. ]
Where will you go? [ she asks, tilting her chin up to look at him properly. He is monstrously tall, a true mountain of a man, with eyes that burn. Whether they burn with blood or some other fire, she cannot explain. ]
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Dany gives him a helpless look, not understanding, precisely. How can she not stay? However much she mistrusts all that ALASTAIR commands, these people are in need, and their plight is an unkind one. She would be unkinder still to walk away. ]
I am a queen, [ she tells him, simply. ] I will go where I am needed. It is my place to protect those who cannot protect themselves.
[ Her book had taught her that. A book writ at the hand of some wise maester long ago, a tome as lost to her as the man who had given her its gift. Viserys had never believed in such things, but she must, or else she is no better than he was.
A fluttering of wings stirs the air around her, and Drogon alights upon her arm. ]
Where will you go? [ she asks, tilting her chin up to look at him properly. He is monstrously tall, a true mountain of a man, with eyes that burn. Whether they burn with blood or some other fire, she cannot explain. ]