♔SECOND

[emblazing]

[ today daenerys appears on the orb. what could be noted is that on her shoulder is the black dragon with the hot coal eyes. he seems a bit larger. while he is not the size of a horse, his tail is long enough to coil around her hip. for a minute he simply stares shrewdly at the screen before flapping off dany's shoulder, where she continues to read a large tome in her lap. she turns a page, pauses and glances up at the screen. ]

A strange place this is. In exchange for our freedom it grants us powers we would not know in our own realms. We would be marked as people we are not and told to fight great battles simply because it is the way of it.

[ her tone is slightly wry ]
I know true knights, and I know that some of you aren't, as much as I am no maegi.

[ drogon sniffs her book, as dany lightly strokes the top of his back, the ridges of his spine. ]

What of your homes? I would ask of your lands, if you wished to speak of them.

[ there is a pause ]

I would ask one more.

What do you believe makes a good King? If such people exist where you were before, what made them good?

{ PRIVATE; TO THE LADY ALAYNE }

[ in a gentler voice ]

My lady. You have suffered an ordeal here. Are you well?

Comments

Biased? Sasuke? Noooo. Wordy, on the other hand...

[bondsoflove]

Generations ago, there was a man, the first shinobi. The Sage of Six Paths is what they called him. He had two sons. The older inherited his eyes and believed that power was the true key to peace. The younger inherited his body and believed that love was the true key to peace. In his final moments, the sage chose his younger son as his successor. The older flew into a rage and attacked the younger. The war continues to wage.

The Senju clan are the descendants of the younger, and the Uchiha clan were the descendants of the older. My ancestor Madara, along with Hashirama Senju, formed the Leaf together, but Hashirama took the title of Hokage and village leader. Madara fought back, but Hashirama beat him down, and he was presumed dead. The remaining Uchiha were silently exiled to the outskirts of the village, and we were given the false privilege of controlling and operating Leaf's police force.

My father was the chief of police and the head of the clan. He spearheaded a plan to rise up against the generations of oppression by the hands of the Senju. My brother, thirteen at the time, was a member of the ANBU black ops, an elite corps of assassins who report directly to the Hokage. The elders manipulated him and made him act as a double agent, fed him lies about how an Uchiha uprising would trigger another war, and used him as a puppet to try to convince the Uchiha to remain under the Senju's thumb. When that was unsuccessful, he was ordered to take the Uchiha out. All of us.

He was supposed to kill me, but he couldn't, so he lied to me instead. He made it look as though he had done it out of his own cruelty, and instructed me to fill myself with hatred, become strong, and kill him to avenge our clan. I would return to the village a hero, and the Uchiha family name would be redeemed in the eyes of the Senju, and I would go back to being in ignorant subservience.

And I did it. I became strong, I became hateful, and I killed him. It was afterwards that I learned he had never been the one deserving of revenge.

Now I'm here. My vengeance and my strength taken from me. Trapped.

[emblazing]

[ dany can clearly hear the bias she's heard from the times she's listened to sasuke before. which is what makes her try to glean from it as best she can. it's familiar to her because the targaryens were slaughtered as well and yet she had already assumed there was injustice from previous words given. ]

To go against an entire kingdom, or village, as you would call it, on your own is folly. You would need men, armies to fight with you. And there is the matter of innocents, those who never knew of that strife to begin with. If you were to rebuild a better village you would have none left if your revenge took them all.