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[decisiveconquest]

My request is blunt and I ask for your forgiveness, however I have a goal in mind and said goal requires a great deal of Chroma. That being said...

(She reminds herself, though she can't imagine herself feeling warm again from anyone's touch, that this needn't be complicated. Hand holding will do, after all, unless someone desires more. At this point, she would do just about anything to keep herself busy and not alone.)

I am seeking partners.

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[embracethewind]

if that goal is what you need then i'll accept being your partner.

... for that goal, yes. 👉👈

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[decisiveconquest]

Only for the goal? (She's just teasing.) You seem like an honest man. I trust I am safe with you.

[embracethewind]

[ asdfghjk she does get him to fluster. ]

well... it could be more than that if you want.

oh! thank you! why wouldn't i be honest with you? why wouldn't i keep you safe?

[decisiveconquest]

I wouldn't mind. (Anything to stave off her loneliness.)

I could tell you. Honest men wield knives too.

[embracethewind]

[ awwe dany ;; ]

i promise to do as you wish.

it's not a knife 🗡️, it's a sword ⚔️! i have three in my possession. i never carry knives with me 😶

[decisiveconquest]

Would you use those swords on a woman? If you saw her as a viable threat, could you kill her?

[embracethewind]

[ what? why would she bring such a question? ]

it is men i kill, not women or children or the elderly.

the only threat i would see in a woman is if she's a spy or is hiding an enemy.

[decisiveconquest]

(There is a scar over her heart from the last man she trusted.)

What if a woman acted like a man? Like a king?

[embracethewind]

[ that's not... honorable. ]

but, you said it yourself: you're a queen.

women will never be like men and men will never be like women. i believe women can be strong and cunning in a different way.

is it so bad being a queen?

[decisiveconquest]

(Honor is hard to find in Westeros.)

I am a queen who didn't need a king. I ruled alone and waged war alone. I rode my Dragon into battle and killed many men, women and children.

[embracethewind]

[ but they are not in westeros >3

the 'killing women and children' part draws a knit of his brow and his lips pressed in a thin line. ]

why did you kill them?

[decisiveconquest]

I ended the war.

(She became Queen of the Ashes.)

I was killed for it.

[embracethewind]

i'm sorry, daenerys-sama.

i could say one must be judged for one's crimes before getting killed but even that would be too naive to think of in a war.

[decisiveconquest]

So you agree with my dispatcher? I lost two sons and dear friends too. Was I supposed to bite my tongue and bear it?

[embracethewind]

i cannot agree for a woman to be killed by a cold blade.

if you've killed innocent people you must accept the consequences of your actions.

i don't blame you for losing your loved ones, for that i'm so sorry for your loss, but it was a war and the risk of losing what is most precious to you will always be there.

the real question here is: was it worth in the end?

[ that's one of his greatest fears: losing kondō, hijikata and kamiya, and not being there for them or at least die with them. ]

[decisiveconquest]

(Was it worth it? Can she give an answer to that? All she earned in Westeros was fear. She paid for that fear with the death of Viserion, Rhaegal, Jorah, Missandei...

Was anything worth their lives?

No.)

No.

(Missandei's final word had been Dracarys and that is what Daenerys delivered on King's Landing. She lost her purpose, her reason for ruling as she should.)

I can't bring them back.

[embracethewind]

then don't see a life here as a punishment but as a way to honor them.

[ as a woman it will be hard for her for sure. what's to expect if she came back to his world, anyway? ]

[decisiveconquest]

Is that my duty? What if they would rather I become ash?

(Like them. Like their futures.)

[embracethewind]

Is that what you think? That your loved ones see you dead instead?

[ the future is sad, not that he knows. ]

[decisiveconquest]

No, I believe they wish for my death. What I have done, in their eyes, is unforgivable.

[embracethewind]

You cannot say unless they see what you've done.

[ well, he cannot say either since he hasn't seen the extent of her crime. ]

[decisiveconquest]

They saw and they suffered. They are the ones who should decide my fate. What could be more fitting than my death?

[embracethewind]

No one deserves to die unless they are giving their lives for what they believe.