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// WHAT DO YOU PRAY FOR, SER JORAH?” SHE ASKED HIM. 
'HOME,' HE SAID. HIS VOICE WAS THICK WITH LONGING. 
'I PRAY FOR HOME TOO,” SHE TOLD HIM, BELIEVING IT.

SER JORAH LAUGHED. “LOOK AROUND YOU THEN, KHALEESI.”

BUT IT WAS NOT THE PLAINS DANY SAW THEN. IT WAS KING’S LANDING AND THE GREAT RED KEEP THAT AEGON THE CONQUEROR HAD BUILT. IT WAS DRAGONSTONE WHERE SHE HAD BEEN BORN. IN HER MIND’S EYE THEY BURNED WITH A THOUSAND LIGHTS, A FIRE BLAZING IN EVERY WINDOW. 
IN HER MIND’S EYE, ALL THE DOORS WERE RED. //

 

IN THE A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE NOVELS BY GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, DAENERYS TARGARYEN'S CHARACTER ARC FEATURES HEAVILY THEMES OF LONGING FOR A HOME THAT NO LONGER EXISTS; A PLACE WHERE YOU FELT SAFE IN YOUR CHILDHOOD. THIS TRIO WAS WRITTEN WITH THESE THEMES IN MIND.