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Dominant
Highrise #45
@zokla

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[dorzalta]

Why not show me Dragonstone? What would they gain by showing me the Wall, save that there's land beyond it?

[ It's not as if they showed her the dead which he spoke of. ]

Sometimes, there is no meaning.

[ Which is a lie. There was so very much layered in those illusions Pyat Pree spun. ]

It's a desert. Near the Dothraki Sea. My people and I were lost in it shortly after Drogo's death.

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They might not have shown you the threat, but they showed you that the Wall is important. They had to know.

[He knew that was true, as there was no reason why he was brought back or why the Red God gave Melisandre the power to resurrect him.

It didn't make it any easier to stomach.]

How did you survive?

[dorzalta]

You give the warlock too much credit.

How did my khalasar survive the Red Waste, you mean? We found Qarth. And I lost a good man along the way.

[song_of_ice]

I've learned not to completely dismiss the magic of others.

[Especially after the events of the Wall.]

I wish I could have seen the places you have. Part of me wished to travel before I took the oath.

[dorzalta]

So have I.

[ She's seen enough magic to mistrust it when in the hands of a stranger. ]

I didn't have much choice when it came to those initial travels.

[song_of_ice]

I know, but it still must have be amazing to see.

Maybe someday I can show you the top of the Wall.

[dorzalta]

When it became my choice, it was. Before that, it was another place to live, and I wondered when we would be cast out to wander the streets again.

[song_of_ice]

If we survive the war, do mean to stay in King's Landing?

[dorzalta]

You mean when the war is won. I imagine it's much the same a city as Meereen is.

Assuming Cersei doesn't blow up the Red Keep, I imagine i would. Why?

[song_of_ice]

I don't know. I have never seen King's Landing.

[dorzalta]

Where else would I reside?

[song_of_ice]

Dragonstone seems to suit you. It means more to your family.

[dorzalta]

They both mean a great deal to my family.

[song_of_ice]

You should visit Winterfell someday.

[dorzalta]

[ Dangerous territory, that topic. She may not press for him to bend the knee to her in this place, but it would become a point of contention once more upon their return back to Westeros. ]

To visit you?

[song_of_ice]

If you let me leave the island.

[It's meant as a joke, one to dissipate the tense subject.]

[dorzalta]

That remains to be seen.

[song_of_ice]

You would make it difficult.

[If they ended up like this.]

[dorzalta]

Says the man so stubborn.

[song_of_ice]

You are just as stubborn.

[dorzalta]

It's because I know what I want.

[song_of_ice]

So do I. I know what I need too.

[dorzalta]

Which is?

[ If he says defeat the dead, she might throw a shoe at his head. ]

[song_of_ice]

[There is an obvious answer, but he was never a man who knew what to say at the right time. He wasn't sophisticated with this and could only speak honestly. So when he typed the word, it was a simple, bald truth.]

You.

[dorzalta]

[ A long, long silence. ]

How can you know that?