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Wherein we learn what Daenerys is doing with the mysterious bowl of snow!
“When Sam opened the door at his knock, Jon was surprised to see Gilly sitting at the hearth, sewing a patch on one of Sam's black robes while Little Sam played with a finely carved wooden horse that Jon recognized as being of Dothraki make. He greeted them all cautiously, and Gilly looked up at him with a "Hmmph" and went back to her work. "Gilly brought Little Sam back to visit me," Sam explained after saying his hello. "We've been having a lovely evening." Jon knelt by the boy and asked him, "That's a fine horse, where did it come from?" Little Sam galloped the steed to Jon's knee, barely tapping its fragile hooves on the floor, then made it rear up with an excellent whinny. "Queen Dany's blood man gived him to me," the little boy said. "She rides hrazefi and zhavorsi and her blood man maked my hrazef." "One of the bloodriders," Sam explained. "Gilly does a bit of sewing for Her Grace, and Viggo has a boy Little Sam's age waiting for him back on Dragonstone. He carves Little Sam toys sometimes, and teaches him words in Dothraki. He says that the Queen--" "--rides horses and dragons, aye, I know that bit of the language," Jon said. Little Sam went on, "I have a running hrazef and a raring hrazef and two standing hrazefi. He's gwine'ta make me a walking hrazef next." The conversation went on in that vein for some time, and Jon marveled at how clever the little boy was, peppering their conversation with well-pronounced Dothraki words, and how gentle he was with the fragile toy. Little Sam was no monster, any more than Dany. And how could he be hated by the Gods? He'd been rescued from his vile father, rescued from a White Walker, and now was growing up in a castle, among people who loved him so much they put aside great differences to keep his family together. And on top of that, he was a fine-looking little lad, well-favored in every way. The Gods made no sense at all. Read the whole thing on Ao3. Completely written. Updates 1-3 times per week.