♔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

[consultmybooks]

Um...w-what do you believe a, um, a "true knight" to be? What sort of purpose did they fulfill, in your world?

We have knights in mine. Or, um, had. I suppose I'm curious how our definitions might differ.

[emblazing]

Loyalty to their Kings, Queens--who serve and protect the innocent. They consider it their sworn duty.

What of your home?

[consultmybooks]

Serving their lords, um, that's much the same. Not always the King, or the Queen. Barons, Counts, whoever held domain over a large enough area.

...as far as, um, protecting the people on their lord's lands protected their interest, I suppose that was much the same as well. They were political pieces, really. Expected to adhere to, um, a certain code of chivalry, but that code largely applied only in their interactions with one another, and with their "betters".

[The disdainful quotation marks drop into place like a respectable lady covering up a dead spider with a paper towel.]

[emblazing]

So they were not so much concerned with their people as they were for their own lands? How highly that speaks of their 'betters'. Their Kings and their Queens.

[ at any rate, it's hardly something daenerys approves of. when i come to westeros i will choose those loyal to me, loyal to my people. there will be such men and women in my small council.]