⟪ power is the image she had meant to invoke in westeros, had worked with all she had been given. she required no guards, but the king had granted them, and while they slowed her, they positively halted opposition. stannis was no fool, he didn't leave her with men that would have been more useful on a battlefield – but to leave her with men under her command at all was a message. ⟫
In the land I left behind, I am a foreigner. They did not understand my ways, and little else could breed more fear.
⟪ and a woman she is, too, source of at least half of what terrified some of these lords. ⟫
Technology... ⟪ the word alone is every bit as foreign as westerosi customs had once been. ⟫ None of this exists in my world. Even the colourful lighting -- I can do similar with flame, but this?
⟪ a vague gesture at the neon lights, and then her drink, which had just arrived. ⟫ It's no colour I saw outside of poison frogs.
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In the land I left behind, I am a foreigner. They did not understand my ways, and little else could breed more fear.
⟪ and a woman she is, too, source of at least half of what terrified some of these lords. ⟫
Technology... ⟪ the word alone is every bit as foreign as westerosi customs had once been. ⟫ None of this exists in my world. Even the colourful lighting -- I can do similar with flame, but this?
⟪ a vague gesture at the neon lights, and then her drink, which had just arrived. ⟫ It's no colour I saw outside of poison frogs.