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If anyone has been contacted by Poe Dameron about being turned into a bird...

He is fine. He is well. ~~For the time being.~~ [deleted]

I'm taking care of it...

And I truly do apologize for his...excitement, for lack of a better term.

If anyone is upset, just contact me directly.

Thank you.

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It was not an entire world, but a bay, ringed by cities in which the wealthy few profited off the back of their slave trade. ( She speaks of it in the past tense, because she put a stop to that and stamped it out. ) No. It is nothing short of barbarity.

No more than a few months, before he'll begin to grow. A little more with each passing year. His brothers are six now, if that helps to envision how quickly they can become so large.

Yes; he lives on the same floor of the building as Jon and I. ( She smiles a little. ) He was overwhelmed by this place, I think.

Good. The evil in our world cannot be allowed to continue existing, no matter if we reside there any longer, or elsewhere.

I cannot imagine such a city..or the people, their hardships. [She has a feeling that Dany had a hand in stopping it.] Or the children working in those conditions.

He has brothers? Are they here? [Can a moon of this size support that many dragons? And Stars, Hiccup had a dragon too, how big will that one get? ...Hopefully there's enough game and food to go around.]

Oh, we're in the same building then. The Communal Building. I'm on the 12th floor. Well, I was overwhelmed by this place when I first arrived...it's a common thing.

I take it, the evil will be vanquished with the aid of your dragons?

I couldn't gaze into their eyes and do nothing. Even had my brother not sold me like a broodmare, it would have ended the same. They're free now, as you are.

( Those among the Masters who'd continuously opposed her will have been dispensed with. Whoever is left alive will either abide by it or die. )

They aren't. Not yet. Drogon and Rhaegal, black and green, respectively. ( If there's a monster problem now, there likely wouldn't be in a world with four dragons. At least not in the immediate vicinity. )

We've been living on the third for some weeks now. Your friend — he's the companion of the little fellow who speaks in numbers, isn't he? I mean the one who was turned into a bird.

Yes. Only dragonglass and a certain sort of steel can destroy them otherwise.

[Her eyes widen in shock. Her brother sold her? Family wasn't supposed to do that for one another. Kylo Ren and Han flash into her mind, and how Kylo Ren killed Han, his father, and watching as her friend died. All in the name of power. Anger flashes in her brown eyes.]

I cannot believe your blood would do that. What for? Power? Greed? [She can only hope the bastard is in a cell or better yet, dead.]

Not yet? So you do think they might come here? I don't know if this place will be enough for them...[She looks pensive now, trying to figure out how two other dragons, big ones, could survive here...and not eat everything in sight. She realizes what she's doing and snaps out of it.] Sorry, I'm sure you have an idea already in place.

Yes, Poe is my friend who turned into a bird. [There's a tired sigh there. She's been dealing with explanations of the sort.] Poe is BB-8's master--that is, Poe takes care of BB-8, we all do. Finn, and myself. [Droids can't be enslaved...right?]

I take it the dragonglass and steel can be shaped into weapons and you'll use those as well?

For what he believed was owed him: an army, and the iron throne. A golden crown. The lattermost was what he received; pity he didn't survive it.

( This woman's fury is beautiful; and on her behalf, too. Years, she's spent inspiring others to believe in themselves, to seize to freedom they'd been born entitled to. Yet it's still something to behold when someone empathizes with her enough to feel something so strongly.

It endears this woman to her, and why not? They're both survivors. )

I don't think; I believe. If my king and I can be so, so might my dragons. ( Her eyes regard Rey with mild amusement. ) There is an entire jungle full of game, so I've heard.

The cheerful little fellow—I remember, he wanted your friend to teach me to speak his language.

And yes. What we have is what we have, and I won't stand for anything less than a victory against such filth as the dead risen again.

[Rey has her eyebrows knitted together, mentally repeating to herself what this brother thought what was owed to him. No, he deserved none of it. Not an army, for he could not care for his sister, then he could not take care of his men. A throne was not for him, nor a crown.] He still received a crown? [Wait, he didn't survive that? So...oh. Realization dawns in her eyes. He promptly died receiving the crown...however that happened.] I hope his death brought you some peace. [Maybe closure too. Family...should never do that to one another.]

Fair point. They could come here...I just hope the people here will be ready for it. [And not go screaming about, acting like idiots.] There is, I haven't run into anything in there yet, but I haven't ventured out there...yet. [There could be things to find there, or maybe clues..or who knows. Maybe Cisco needed something there.]

BB-8 is a friendly droid, doesn't surprise me that he would ask Poe to teach you. the more people can understand him, the better. If he happens to come by, beeping and such, you'd at least know if he was trying to warn you of anything.

From you've told me, I have no doubts you and your King will be victorious.

My first husband poured molten gold over his head. He'd threatened to do foul things to me. ( To her unborn son, which she could not and never will forgive. ) And he broke the law by baring a blade in Vaes Dothrak; bearing weapons is forbidden to all within the city. He found the Dothraki people savage and inferior, and believed he could do as he wished and where he wished it. Life is seldom so kind, as he learned to his sorrow.

( But not hers. He was her brother. Part of her will always bear affection for him, and long for the boy he'd been once. Before their servants had run off with all their meager gold, before Ser Willem Darry had taken ill and died. But who he'd become once twisted by bitterness, humiliation and disappointment was not someone she cares to miss. She sits straighter, now, canting her head forward in a short nod. ) More than I'd ever thought and not entirely in the way I'd imagined.

If by that you mean some might think of slaying them for glory or some-such: they would not be met with any kindness from me. But I can say that I had all three of them residing upon an island not so long past, and no complaints were brought before me. They decimated no herds, nor killed any people. That was different, of course when they were a bit younger, and more rebellious.

( Dany can't fight. But the lure of what lies beyond the perimeter is becoming a song in her blood; a need to be free in some capacity, to not be enclosed on all side by walls again.

She sighs, and relaxes her posture a little bit. )

Thank you for that, I'll have a care to remember it.

I know we will: but your confidence is most heartening, my friend. In your case as well, whatever this great evil is, I think you will triumph. When there is no other option other than success or death, one's motivation is significantly bolstered.

[Rey listens to every detail, as though she was listening to an intense lecture about the Jedi, on the Force. First husband, which meant he was no longer around. She could only hope his death wasn't a violent one. This dead husband has earned Rey's respect, protecting Dany and giving her brother exactly what he wanted; a gold crown.]

Your brother thought he was above it all, and his arrogance and foolishness lead to his own demise.

[But Dany adapted, she survived and became strong on her own. She became the Queen she was today. There was so much she had to over come, and though her brother treated her very poorly, Rey had an inkling she still missed him. The same could be said of her, she missed her family even though she was left on Jakku.]

Ready in the sense that they won't be terrified. When meeting new creatures for the first time, it can be fearful, especially when the creature has the potential to devour you whole and not care. It is easier to say they won't, and I do not doubt your words at all, but it'll be hard to remember that while meeting something that is taller than a building. Though... [She pauses then, looking over the tiny dragon there.] If they all manage to come through that small, I'm sure no one would be fearful. If they come through as big as you described them to be...that's where it'll be hard to not give into fear.

[There's a slow nod of her head, Rey briefly looking away for a moment as flashes of the battle she had with Kylo Ren ran through her mind. It was fight or die trying, and it wasn't until she listened to the Force that she had the upper hand.]

Indeed, when you are up against something so fierce and you are back into a corner, your motivating increases to the point where you nearly lose yourself in the battle. [She came close to killing him, but managed to restrain herself. She wouldn't be like him.]

It wasn't precisely those traits: he was cruel. He threatened the life of my unborn child, after he'd been a cur to me from my sixth year until his last. I haven't once shed tears over the matter, and I never will.

( She'd lost both her husband and son in the end, too. But Viserys had well-earned the fate he'd been dealt. He could have married himself into the Dothraki instead, and it wouldn't have mattered. They never would have followed anyone so weak. A thing which she can clearly see Rey is not. No more than she herself might be deemed.

A faint smile crosses her face briefly, and then disappears. )

They are as my children, you see. A mother will only think the best of them unless they give her cause to discipline them. They have terrified others, but by and large those who have deserved it. That one little girl—no, she won't think of it. ( Drogon grew out of that behaviour, and Viserion will learn to know better. ) If approached with respect, they might be touched. They're intelligent creatures, but wild all the same. I don't blame anyone for being afraid; but such would render things worse for all involved.

When a predator senses fear, it may associate one with prey. I don't ever wish for that to be the case.

( Not like that. Never again. Dany nods her head in turn, acknowledging their mutual understanding. )

Yes, although we have others to fight for. That should help ensure that we keep a cool head about things, yes?

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