fireandbloodsource: DAENERYS APPRECIATION MONTH 2021:↳ Day 23: Wants and needs vs duty and sacrifice
fireandbloodsource: DAENERYS APPRECIATION MONTH 2021:↳ Day 23: Wants and needs vs duty and sacrifices “Kiss me,” she commanded.He took her hand again, and kissed her fingers. “Not that way. Kiss me as if I were your wife.”Hizdahr took her by the shoulders as tenderly as if she were a baby bird. Leaning forward, he pressed his lips to hers. His kiss was light and dry and quick. Dany felt no stirrings.“Shall I … kiss you again?” he asked when it was over. “No.” On her terrace, in her bathing pool, the little fish would nibble at her legs as she soaked. Even they kissed with more fervor than Hizdahr zo Loraq. “I do not love you.”Hizdahr shrugged. “That may come, in time. It has been known to happen that way.”Not with us, she thought. Not whilst Daario is so close. It’ s him I want, not you.*** “Ninety days is a long time. Hizdahr may fail. And if he does, the trying buys me time. Time to make alliances, to strengthen my defenses, to - ”“And if he does not fail? What will Your Grace do then?”“Her duty.” The word felt cold upon her tongue***“I cannot fight two enemies, one within and one without. If I am to hold Meereen, I must have the city behind me. The whole city. I need … I need …” She could not say it.“Your Grace?” Ser Barristan prompted, gently. A queen belongs not to herself but to her people. “I need Hizdahr zo Loraq.” -- source link