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[decisiveconquest]

I will not hide my identity nor pretend these words are not attached to me. There were men who thought I committed many wrongs before I came here. One man held me accountable and spared me nothing besides a lingering death, which leads me to my question: in your estimation, are there any crimes that are unforgivable?

What a common man or woman cannot - should not - do, a king or a queen can do for the good of their people, correct? Great sacrifices are expected in battle - in war - however do you think that a ruler's life should be forfeit for them? What good can they do if they are slain prematurely?

I can admit when I am wrong, but on this...

I don't understand.

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[broozes]

Interesting thought, or no?

[decisiveconquest]

She deserved what she got.

[broozes]

[ She's thinking of Hela. ]

Aye, so they all say.

[decisiveconquest]

Anyone who kills one of my children deserves a painful death.

[broozes]

[ She never had children. But she had sisters, and remembers them all dead on the field. ]

Vengeance is a just cause.

[decisiveconquest]

And vengeance doesn't call for mercy. (Though if she could do it again, she might have directed Drogon to burn the front lines of Cersei's knights and then gone directly for the Red Keep.)

[broozes]

It does not.

I suppose you've decided already how you feel.

[ And she's shown how she feels, too. ]

Suppose it's just unfortunate someone got to you before you could get to them.

[decisiveconquest]

I do regret killing so many innocents. I should have focused on the soldiers alone. (Though they were somewhat intermixed with the commoners.)

I don't know if I could have killed him.

[broozes]

[ She has no love for royalty and what they command as theirs, even as she's come to love Thor. It's complicated, too deeply tied to her feelings about the house of Odin. ]

It's fortunate to be alive, to regret and to understand.

[ Not too long ago she would've wished the opposite. And if there's regret here, then... ]

My name is Valkyrie, of Asgard. I am a warrior.

[decisiveconquest]

I'm not sure I view living as fortunate quite yet. I hope that changes in the near future.

(Because life should be a gift.)

I am Daenerys Targaryen and I was a queen and conqueror.

[broozes]

[ Not everyone who lives deserves to. She's living proof of that, but Brunnhilde no longer considers what she really deserves or not, she just does. She's not looking back. ]

And what are you now?

[decisiveconquest]

I am a woman and a mother. I take pride in the latter. (Drogon needs her and that has helped her regain her footing quicker.)

[broozes]

It isn't so bad to begin again.

[ And sometimes you don't stop being what you are. She can sense the power royalty think is theirs even across text. It's indescribable, something they all possess. Even Thor, for all his kindness, has it. ]

[decisiveconquest]

If you have the energy for it.

(Which she doesn't. The wind was taken out of her sails - metaphorically speaking - with her death.)

[broozes]

[ Life doesn't wait for you to move on. ]

Do you have the energy for it?

[decisiveconquest]

I will find it. I have enough reason to carry on.

(Her son will look to her for guidance and protection.)

[broozes]

I don't doubt it.

[ She seems the type, conqueror's attitude and all. ]

Are any of your former subjects here?

[decisiveconquest]

As far as I know, I am the only one from my world.

(Maybe that's good all things considered.)

[broozes]

I've learnt that fresh starts can be a good thing.