dragonwarder | (no subject)

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.

[ 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. ]

[Daenerys seizes on the change of subject.]

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

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.

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.

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. ]

[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.

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. ]

I am not most people.

I will see you when you locate our transport.