ilyciri:He had expected to find them impressive, perhaps even frightening. He had not thought to fin
ilyciri:He had expected to find them impressive, perhaps even frightening. He had not thought to find them beautiful. Yet they were. As black as onyx, polished smooth, so the bone seemed to shimmer in the light of his torch. They liked the fire, he sensed. He’d thrust the torch into the mouth of one of the larger skulls and made the shadows leap and dance on the wall behind him. The teeth were long, curving knives of black diamond. The flame of the torch was nothing to them; they had bathed in the heat of far greater fires. When he had moved away, Tyrion could have sworn that the beast’s empty eye sockets had watched him go. (Tyrion II, A Game of Thrones)make me choose (asoiaf edition) ➝ direwolfs or dragons ↳ requested by @softironman -- source link