HOUSE OF THE DRAGON: S01EP01
THE HEIRS OF THE DRAGON
I trust your ride was pleasant.
Try not to look too relieved.
I believe I’m quite content as a spectator, thank you.
Someone has to attend to you.
This discomfort is how we serve the realm.
I’d rather serve as a knight and ride to battle and glory.
Well, that sounds suspiciously like good news.
And are we meant to weep for dead pirates?
Now… you and I both own a small piece of our ancestry.
You’re always like this when you’re worried.
I want to fly with you on dragon-back, see the great wonders across the Narrow Sea, and eat only cake.
I like this position. It’s quite comfortable.
They are searching the texts for similar cases.
Bad humors of the mind can adversely affect the body.
Whatever it is, it needs to be kept quiet.
Cauterization would be a wise course of treatment.
This is the only place I can find comfort these days.
I’ve never been more certain of anything.
Crime of every breed has been allowed to thrive.
Carry on. You were saying something about my impunity.
Making a public spectacle of wanton brutality is hardly in line with our laws.
I can assure you, the sheep are prettier.
Perhaps you aren’t ready to move on just yet.
Enforce my laws, but understand… any further performances like last night’s will be answered.
I would gladly take it if I thought I needed it.
Now, I’m fairly certain I can win these games.
It’s a marvel that war didn’t break out at first blood.
We must either act now or leave it with the gods.
This is the last thing any of us wish to discuss at this dark hour, but I consider the matter urgent.
These recent tragedies have left you without an obvious heir.
Well, who else would have a claim?
I will not sit here and suffer crows that come to feast on their corpses!
I wouldn’t know what to say.
I do know how passionate you are for the histories.
All I wanted was for someone to say that they were sorry for what happened to me.
But dream and pray as they all might, it seems I’m not so easily replaced.
The gods give just as the gods take away.
I corroborated this report with three separate witnesses.
My family has just been destroyed.
Yet everything I’ve given you, you’ve thrown back in my face.
Then why do you cut me so deeply?
They all prey on you for their own ends.
When you look at the dragons, what do you see?
Without them, we’re just like everyone else.
I swear this by the old gods and the new.