I know it is strange. I know House Stark has little reason to trust House Targaryen, after what happened to my grandfather and my uncle. But you are not your father, Your Grace, and I know little of Prince Oberyn. I do know you have little love for the Lannisters, and I know you offered to mediate the fight between my brother and Theon.
[ meaning that she has already won her over in two things. ]
Perhaps were we still in Westeros, it might be different. The North does not take kindly to Southern rulers. But here... we are all that is left of Westeros, and neither of my brothers ever wanted to be king.
[ and here... they don't have to be. Robb is defiant still, and Jon carries the burden of the loss of the North on his shoulders, still. but she has realized what they might have not — that it matters not. whatever grievances their two houses had, they don't matter; what matters is survival. and if Daenerys sees it her duty to be the queen that was her birthright, to have a care for those who would have been her subjects, once upon a time... it is a good thing. ]
If I may say so... you would have made a far better queen than Cersei, Your Grace.
[ not much to say, really, for how awful Cersei was... but then it is not that. it is her, saying that she believes in the kind of world Daenerys would have built — she has spoken to her enough times now to have seen the kind of person she is... and Tyrion trusts her. Tyrion is her Hand, and Tyrion always was a good judge of character. ]
no subject
[ meaning that she has already won her over in two things. ]
Perhaps were we still in Westeros, it might be different. The North does not take kindly to Southern rulers. But here... we are all that is left of Westeros, and neither of my brothers ever wanted to be king.
[ and here... they don't have to be. Robb is defiant still, and Jon carries the burden of the loss of the North on his shoulders, still. but she has realized what they might have not — that it matters not. whatever grievances their two houses had, they don't matter; what matters is survival. and if Daenerys sees it her duty to be the queen that was her birthright, to have a care for those who would have been her subjects, once upon a time... it is a good thing. ]
If I may say so... you would have made a far better queen than Cersei, Your Grace.
[ not much to say, really, for how awful Cersei was... but then it is not that. it is her, saying that she believes in the kind of world Daenerys would have built — she has spoken to her enough times now to have seen the kind of person she is... and Tyrion trusts her. Tyrion is her Hand, and Tyrion always was a good judge of character. ]