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[dragonwarder]

Our investment in breaking the system.
And in uplifting others who have never before tasted equality.

[forcevisions]

Ben has the first part.
He'll get the second. He helped me.

[ in case daenerys ever thought she lost track of what stance she was defending. ]

[dragonwarder]

For your sake and the sake of your cause, I hope that to be true.

[A beat.]

And for his sake as well, I suppose.
The potential is there, I think.
But I prefer to know more about the gambles I make, and he is not a man I would bet on so swiftly.

[forcevisions]

I want to ask you another question.
When you said you've seen how others can weaponize someone's ignorance, did you mean firsthand?

[ all this talk about lost control and her wariness makes rey think to actually ask directly. maybe it's too forward. but daenerys has not hesitated to tell her when she's pushing too hard in the past. better to walk it back after. ]

nobody makes icons with harry lloyd in them so i had to settle

[dragonwarder]

[This time, it might seem like she's pushed to hard, because there is no answer for a very long time.]

When I was much younger.
My mother died giving birth to me.
My father was killed in Robert Baratheon's rebellion.
I made my way in the world with my elder brother for a time, after we were smuggled to safety by those still loyal to the Targaryen throne.

[She leaves it at that, for the moment. Viserys is still hard to talk about, at times. She oft makes habit of dismissing him out of the conversation as soon as someone invites him in. But something about it feels unfair, to only give Rey half the story when she'd asked her for council.]

But those men soon disappeared.
And for the years after, there was only Viserys.

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[forcevisions]

He wasn't kind to you. Your brother?

[ She's trying to keep her replies short and gentle, cautious. They are probing enough without being long-winded. And what does Rey know anyway, about family? It's not like she can empathize. Not really. ]

[dragonwarder]

He was, for a time.
I might speak of it easier, were he not.

But in our exile, he grew cold, cruel and joyless.
I thought that I had surely done something wrong.
The truth of it was that I was only ever a trophy to him once I came of age.
Something to be paraded, bought and sold.

And yet, I was the only one left in the world who loved him.

[forcevisions]

[ sold.

bought and sold.

just like her parents. no, the context surely implicates that there's something sexual to the way daenerys' brother used and sold her, so it can't quite be claimed the same. rey was able to retain her ignorance. she was sold for a different sort of labor. and as daenerys has said — she has no memories of her parents' kindness to make it harder, more complicated. only the expectation that her family would love her, and their failure to.

she has to wonder, not for the first time, if it is harder to have people who fail you or to have no one at all. ]

I'm sorry.
I know you hate speaking this way. This should be something we discuss in person, not over comms, but I'm trying to find a car to get to the pyramid.

[ kark the timing. ]

[dragonwarder]

[Daenerys seizes on the change of subject.]

Perhaps I might assist.
Jon is in possession of one of those "bikes".

[forcevisions]

Bikes won't cut it. The pyramid floats.
I'll have to grab him in the car.
And you, if you tell me where you are.

[dragonwarder]

I am not finished here.
There are many people who still need provisions to survive this ordeal.
When you find the car, deliver me your location, and I will come to you.

[forcevisions]

Maps are fried, Daenerys. Everything is.
I could send you a location, but it could take you to entirely the wrong place. I know this city better than you.

[ she won't like hearing it, but it's practical. ]

[dragonwarder]

[It's almost possible to hear her impatience through text.]

I suppose that is what happens when you entrust the entirety of your daily operations to technology.
I am in the city center, but I should not linger much longer.

[How does she put this...]

Unusually, the heat is not agreeing with me.

[forcevisions]

You're not wrong.

[ she has never liked the mental component of the implant. the total lack of anything analog. it's strange to her, even as someone from an advanced, spacefaring society. ]

That's not unusual. Climate management is down. It seems to be getting to most people.

[ rey wouldn't be surprised if she were the only one unaffected. there'd been good logic to getting the una soldier taken down before anything else -- the heat couldn't hit them too hard by then. ]

[dragonwarder]

I am not most people.

I will see you when you locate our transport.