[ She shakes her head, faintly. She hadn't wished to know more after that news, and her eyes are distant from the feelings this line of conversation stirs within her. Feelings that are hard to name.
She returns her attention to the screen, and shakes her head again, a sharper no. ]
If you wrote me, and I went, I can only trust I acted in the best interest of the Kingdoms. If it was the wrong thing to do, it was my wrong thing to do.
[ It's a strange thing to bite down on, perhaps, but the idea of being tricked or manipulated into sacrifice, even as unknowingly as through a letter from Jon Snow, is unacceptable. ]
I don't know why you decided to save us, only that we wouldn't have survived without you. [And that she was the most incredible sight he had ever seen. Her three dragons decimated much of the army of the dead, before the Night King struck down Viserion.
It was almost like he knew somehow. It wasn't something he could bring up, not at this moment. Instead, he only looks at her mournfully, wanting to share her pain, if she would let him, even if at a distance.]
You told me.
[He swallows and looks away for a moment.]
They are your children. [He wouldn't say the rest, as he was still uncertain about the truth of it. It wasn't really the point anyway.] Because of the wight we captured, we received help from the Southron houses against the coming war.
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She returns her attention to the screen, and shakes her head again, a sharper no. ]
If you wrote me, and I went, I can only trust I acted in the best interest of the Kingdoms. If it was the wrong thing to do, it was my wrong thing to do.
[ It's a strange thing to bite down on, perhaps, but the idea of being tricked or manipulated into sacrifice, even as unknowingly as through a letter from Jon Snow, is unacceptable. ]
Do you? [ It's not cynical, nor a challenge. ]
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It was almost like he knew somehow. It wasn't something he could bring up, not at this moment. Instead, he only looks at her mournfully, wanting to share her pain, if she would let him, even if at a distance.]
You told me.
[He swallows and looks away for a moment.]
They are your children. [He wouldn't say the rest, as he was still uncertain about the truth of it. It wasn't really the point anyway.] Because of the wight we captured, we received help from the Southron houses against the coming war.