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[Riverlands]
[LADY ARYA STARK, GENDRY, and HOT PIE trek through the Shadowlands. High above them, JAQEN H'GHAR stands atop a steep cliff.]
"Is he watching over them?" Catelyn asked.
Ned shrugged. He wasn't sure.
[As they pass to the other side of the cliff, JAQEN disappears. Suddenly, he is at ground level, next to ARYA.]
"What are you doing here?"
"Waiting for you."
"How did you know we'd come this way?"
"After all the things you have seen, this is your question?"
"Fair enough" Arya muttered.
"How did you kill those guards? Was it hard?"
"No harder than taking a new name, if you know the way."
"Show me how. I want to be able to do it, too."
"I would not suggest that" Oberyn stated. "The training these mercenaries and assassins do... they rip away your sense of being and make you someone who is everyone. Someone who can be whoever they wish. You will never be you again. Your very training will prevent it."
Arya shivered at that. It sounded creepy.
"If you would learn, you must come with me."
"Where?"
"Far and away across the Narrow Sea to Braavos."
"My dancing master was from Braavos."
"To be a dancing master is a special thing, but to be a faceless man, that is something else entirely. The girl has many names on her lips. Joffrey, Cersei, Tywin Lannister, llyn Payne, the Hound. Names to offer up to the Red God. She could offer them all one by one."
"I want to. But I can't. I need to find my brother and mother. And my sister. I need to find her, too."
Sansa smiled at that. Even after she was so mean to her, Arya still wanted to protect her.
Truth be told, she would protect her too if it came to it. Fight as they may, she was still her sister.
"Then we must part. A man has duties as well. Here."
[He offers a coin.]
"If the day comes when you must find me again, just give that coin to any man from Braavos and say these words to him, Valar Morghulis."
"I suppose it explains why that faceless man was so interested in the Stark girl. He sees something in her that is valuable for a Faceless Man" Oberyn stated, leaning back with a frown.
"I suppose they need to recruit somehow" Elia shrugged.
[HOUSE OF THE UNDYING]
[DAENERYS continues to search for her dragons. She follows the sound of their screeching through a door. She looks down into a pit before trying a door on the opposite side of the chamber. She goes through and the wind whistles. The large chamber has a broken roof, and snowfalls.]
"The throne room" Rhaegar muttered softly. But why was it in such disarray? And was that snow?
[She sets down her torch and ascends to a stage with a throne. Dragons screech again, and she does not touch the snowy throne. She walks toward the noises, and a large portal door opens before her. She exits, finding herself in a land of snow and ice. She sees a lone tent in the distance. She walks to it.]
[TENT]
[DROGO sits, holding their son Rhaego]
"Moon of my life."
"They're using your desires against you to keep you trapped" Elia noted.
But all Daenerys could do was stare at the boy in the Khals' hands. That was her son, the one who was taken before he could see the world. He looked so much like her...
"This is dark magic, like the magic that took you from me. Took you from me before I could even- Maybe I am dead and I just don't know it yet. Maybe I am with you in the Night Lands."
"Or maybe I refused to enter the Night Lands without you. Maybe I told the Great Stallion to go fuck himself and came back here to wait for you."
"That sounds like something you would do."
[DAENERYS sits next to DROGO, and she caresses RHAEGO's head.]
"Or maybe it is a dream. Your dream, my dream I do not know. These are questions for wise men with skinny arms."
Oberyn snorted. He found the Dothraki description of people hilarious.
[DROGO and DAENERYS stare deeply into one another's eyes.]
"You are the moon of my life. That is all I know and all I need to know. And if this is a dream, I will kill the man who tries to wake me."
"Do you think he ended up loving me?" Daenerys asked Elia.
"He could have" Elia nodded. "Or this was all that you needed to hear from him, that the man whose child you carried did love you."
Daenerys nodded, lips pursed.
[HOUSE OF THE UNDYING]
[When DAENERYS leaves the tent, she finds herself back in the House of the Undying. Her three dragons sit on a pedestal. They call out to her, excited. She walks closer, and holds out a hand for them]
Daenerys sighed in relief. Her dragons were alright.
"They miss their mother."
[DAENERYS turns around, startled. Behind her, another PYAT PREE clone watches while she looks at the one who spoke. The two PYATS share the dialogue, speaking with one mind.]
"They want to be with you."
"Do you want to be with them?"
"You will be."
"When your dragons were born,"
"our magic was born again."
"It is strongest in their presence."
"And they are strongest in yours."
"Interesting" Rhaegar noted. Did Daenerys herself have something to do with the dragon's hatching then? Was it more than just coincidence and a lot of events falling place?
[A third PYAT PREE appears in an alcove.]
"You will be with them, through winter, summer, winter again. Across a thousand, thousand seasons you will be with them."
[The sound of chains turning starts to her right.]
"And we will be with you until time comes to an end."
"That sounds disgusting" Tommen made a face.
[DAENERYS finds that her wrist is chained. PYAT PREE tightens the chain that binds her. DAENERYS is confused. Another PYAT PREE pulls on a chain now attached to her other wrist. Her arms are now outstretched and straining.]
"Welcome home, Daenerys Stormborn."
"This is not my home. My home is across the sea, where my people are waiting for me."
"They will be waiting a long time"
[DAENERYS turns to look at her dragons. PYAT PREE peers down at them. DAENERYS turns back to the warlock.]
"Dracarys."
[The dragons breathe smoke. Then one spurts out a burp of fire. It catches PYAT PREE's sleeve, and he starts to panic. All three dragons spit fire, past DAENERYS who experience the ecstasy of the fire. PYAT PREE is consumed by flame. He screams horribly and falls to the ground. DAENERYS looks back to her dragons. The chains break.]
"All three heed your command," Rhaegar said in awe.
But Daenerys did not give him a reply.