[She does not say anything, when he attempts to vocalize his empathy to her. For a long moment, she stares at him as if she'd been struck.
Somehow, Jon Snow managed to cut to the heart of her fears without her ever leading him there -- not just the fact that she could not control the transformations, but the knowledge of how much damage her powers could cause unchecked. How easily they could be used and manipulated by a malicious individual.
She'd never had such fears, raising her children. When they were young, she had fears of them being taken from her -- but she never doubted their loyalty. They could not be controlled or bidden to be unleashed on an unsuspecting population.
But the dragon she harbors within her now? That was a different story. And if she were under enough duress, there would be nothing she could do about it.]
No. I didn't. Most of the Displaced -- they do not know.
[She does not need to confirm the rest. Her silence says enough, and she knows it. Yes -- it had been very hard. It was still very hard. Enough things to trigger her anger, and she would grow scales.]
no subject
Somehow, Jon Snow managed to cut to the heart of her fears without her ever leading him there -- not just the fact that she could not control the transformations, but the knowledge of how much damage her powers could cause unchecked. How easily they could be used and manipulated by a malicious individual.
She'd never had such fears, raising her children. When they were young, she had fears of them being taken from her -- but she never doubted their loyalty. They could not be controlled or bidden to be unleashed on an unsuspecting population.
But the dragon she harbors within her now? That was a different story. And if she were under enough duress, there would be nothing she could do about it.]
No. I didn't. Most of the Displaced -- they do not know.
[She does not need to confirm the rest. Her silence says enough, and she knows it. Yes -- it had been very hard. It was still very hard. Enough things to trigger her anger, and she would grow scales.]
But I suspect many of them will now.