for the first time in what certainly was to be a lifetime ago, she felt as if she were at home. however loose the definition of such a word within her own mind, daenerys targaryen could not mistake the sudden sense of serenity to thread throughout her person, near similar to the feelings experienced when she had been but a child-bride lost within a sea of grass. truth now, a surprise it was to know a place such as this to exist and yet never had the young queen imagined it to be so tranquil, it was its own world – far removed from the smells and sounds known to the concrete jungle that was hive city.
she saw herself, a mere slip of a child, once more slipping between the tall grasses of the dothraki sea. home, if she had ever known such a place, and if not home then one of the very few places in the world in which the targaryen girl had ever known the sweetness of FREEDOM. the scent of the earth, the vivid greens to line her vision, the song of birds and the kiss of wind; it took the very heart of her. all of it. how she wanted to run as she had then, barefoot with the soil between her toes and her worries far behind her –
… but that was not her purpose here. this expedition had been the cause of her presence within AUBURN. a place to be with a reason had, oh, she had not forgotten why she was there to begin with and while her feet did carry her in direction of her meeting point, her mind had taken to its own distraction. the trance of her dream she shattered, lips thinned as she carefully made way beneath a low hanging set of branches, keen to the sound of speech what felt to be but a couple of more steps away. it was in that very brief moment between approaching the small collection of others that was to be the other members of her group, no doubt, that dany considered her motive for partaking in such a thing and it was then, she realized, she had not true answer.
a whim, an excuse to leave the city for a moments time, wanderlust, curiosity … all separately and all as one.
❛ Forgive me if I am late, ❜ she would speak, having finally closed in on their place of rendezvous, the flicker of a smile to curl at her lips in apology. here was one she knew if only some, and two others which she’d not had the pleasure of knowing before now. ❛ I became … somewhat distracted. ❜ her words halted, withered upon her tongue before she continued. ❛ I am Daenerys Targaryen, it is a pleasure to be here with you all today. ❜
though she was not alone, another introduction was to be made.
a shift then as her fingers brushed away the silver of her hair, moving it so to drape about a single shoulder. it was this that would allow a serpentine neck to be stretched from behind her shoulder, leather wings drape over her arm as the winged creature crawled up from his place upon her back and took to that of shoulder. ❛ If agreeable with whichever of you is Ace – I have brought a guest. This is Drogon. ❜
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