it wasn't anything bizarre to him, a simple drink and one he'd had since he was but a boy nearly a man. the horn was filled to the brim with the sour smelling substance and a nearly giddy grin crossed his face, "here your grace, try this."
SHE’S NOTSURE HOW SHE FOUND HERSELF HERE, EXACTLY – perhaps it had been somesort of desire for company that brought her down from the silence of her ownchambers, or the seeking of warmth offered only by the larger fires, eager tobanish the chill from her bones before the fight to come. Hours to go, beforethe dawn; and yet there’s no doubt in her mind they’ll be at war long before itrises, and it’s all just a matter of counting it down now. And so, perhaps that’swhat brings her here to find the man all too happily drinking, void of thecompany who have gone off to their own devices, staring into the flames thatseem to play all the more on the fire kissed tone of his hair.
“I hope you don’t mind the company. It’s too cold anywhere else.”
They’ve had little interactions thus far, she can’t help but muse,even as her frame shifts to take a seat before him. There’s nowhere else to go,not yet – not when she’s so unsure where she’s even welcome – and a small smile accompanies that brief moment ofwatching him. From her brief impressions of him, he seems kind; a harsh man,perhaps, but the free folk remind her of her own people in a way. No, the Dothrakiaren’t the most refined people, but they embrace life in a way that seems sosimilar, and in a way she respects more than she might be willing to admit.
Warmth radiates on her features at his words, and it’s so rare that she’s smiled like this indays, but there’s nothing for it but to survey him with that all too accusinglittle expression. He’s drinking it himself, so she has no doubt it’s safe ( ina manner of speaking ) but she can practically smell it from here, and it’s notlike any other wine she’s ever seen – is itwine at all? Nonetheless, not one to be rude, the Targaryen leans across tograsp the horn hesitantly, careful not to spill.
“Dare I ask what it is first? …actually no, don’t tell me.”
The smile remains for merely a moment, before taking a sip ofthe substance – and immediately her hand lurches with the heave of her stomach,pressing the horn back to him ( she won’t waste his last drink if her life dependson it ) as her free hand comes up to cover her lips, and it takes quiteliterally everything to not spit it back entirely, her spluttering and chokingenough to brim amethyst hues as her eyes water. Coughing, the taste is unbearable, unlike anything she’s everendured, and it marvels her that he can bring himself to stomach it, when justone sip alone has brought her to ruin.
Keeping a hand firmly over her mouth as she all but chokes,Daenerys forces herself to utter in a hoarse tone and through watering eyes,for the sake of being polite more than anything else, barely able to evenspeak.