[ A year ago, that would have disturbed her, sent her to questioning what she had unleashed upon the world again. Perhaps frighteningly, it doesn't now. Dany is curiously calm. ]
Dragons are fire made flesh, I have always heard ... but I have only now begun to understand the meaning. [ She inclines her head from its proud stance, her gaze firm. ] Drogon will never be like your Ramoth, and so you must never think to reach him by words. Dragons respect only strength of will, nothing more. If he is fury, then I must be more than that.
[ Does she mean that she has to be more than that, or that she is more than that? Both. She speaks of this with relative ease, as though claiming strength over a dragon is a normal assertion to make. But with the explanation given, perhaps she might soothe some of the worry she's inspired. ]
Even still, left to his own whims, he would sooner fly and hunt, and be free. He has no fear of people, but he has no wish to lay waste to anyone without cause. [ Only to those who would threaten her, as he had proven with Khisanth. ] I understand Ramoth is a hatchling, but Drogon's body is only the size of a cat. ALASTAIR feared what he might do, I have no doubt.
[ She learns the customs of Lessa's world, and they give her pause, searching through the names she remembers. Those queens had ridden she-dragons, as well ... A small furrow appears in her brow. Am I the only queen to mount a male? ] Why do they take only men for their riders? It cannot be that only men are made worthy. [ No man would have dared tell Visenya Targaryen that. ] Has no woman tried?
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Dragons are fire made flesh, I have always heard ... but I have only now begun to understand the meaning. [ She inclines her head from its proud stance, her gaze firm. ] Drogon will never be like your Ramoth, and so you must never think to reach him by words. Dragons respect only strength of will, nothing more. If he is fury, then I must be more than that.
[ Does she mean that she has to be more than that, or that she is more than that? Both. She speaks of this with relative ease, as though claiming strength over a dragon is a normal assertion to make. But with the explanation given, perhaps she might soothe some of the worry she's inspired. ]
Even still, left to his own whims, he would sooner fly and hunt, and be free. He has no fear of people, but he has no wish to lay waste to anyone without cause. [ Only to those who would threaten her, as he had proven with Khisanth. ] I understand Ramoth is a hatchling, but Drogon's body is only the size of a cat. ALASTAIR feared what he might do, I have no doubt.
[ She learns the customs of Lessa's world, and they give her pause, searching through the names she remembers. Those queens had ridden she-dragons, as well ... A small furrow appears in her brow. Am I the only queen to mount a male? ] Why do they take only men for their riders? It cannot be that only men are made worthy. [ No man would have dared tell Visenya Targaryen that. ] Has no woman tried?