Vengeance, not quite misplaced, leading to a young wife’s fury, he supposes. He’d learned about the Dothraki as a boy... that they fight mounted and without fear... but not the inner workings, any more than he’d understood much about wildlings before he met any. He does not know what the other riders would have done to the woman if Daenerys had not. The Dothraki are the scourge of the Free Cities and beyond, and, well... this woman who had betrayed Daenerys, he understands her a little because he had known Olly.
And because, in the end, he’d hanged Olly.
He reaches for another bottle of ale.]
That sort of justice, it’s never easy. It shouldn’t sit light on you.
But you wouldn’t be the first ruler to have executed a murderer.
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Vengeance, not quite misplaced, leading to a young wife’s fury, he supposes. He’d learned about the Dothraki as a boy... that they fight mounted and without fear... but not the inner workings, any more than he’d understood much about wildlings before he met any. He does not know what the other riders would have done to the woman if Daenerys had not. The Dothraki are the scourge of the Free Cities and beyond, and, well... this woman who had betrayed Daenerys, he understands her a little because he had known Olly.
And because, in the end, he’d hanged Olly.
He reaches for another bottle of ale.]
That sort of justice, it’s never easy. It shouldn’t sit light on you.
But you wouldn’t be the first ruler to have executed a murderer.