Rakuen Sample

[bloodandfire]

A. Train
Daenerys woke up on the train with no recollection of how she got there or what this moving metal contraption is. She's immediately on edge, it is not every day one goes from rising from an ash pile with three baby dragons to a... whatever this thing is. It's then that she starts searching ever train car (probably scaring a few students as she bursts in), for Ser Jorah, for her people, for her dragon eggs, and (even though she knows he is dead) Drogo. There is no way that she would have been kidnapped so easily.

B. Platform
Once she is off the train, after she is taught what a train is and believes it all to be magic, she marches up to the Prefects who seem to be in charge here, "I am Khaleeli Daenerys Targaryen, Queen and leader of the Dothraki and I demand you tell me where I am, why you have brought me here, and bring me back to my people at once. If you do as I say I will cause you no harm, and promise that the Dothraki will not attack as well. It is in your best interest to heed my commands," she says with a straight face and conviction in her voice to the bored and unamused Prefects and surrounding students.

C. Town
A lost in thought Daenerys is walking around town. Everything is so different from what she once knew to be true. Technology has advanced immensely and the clothing was just plain degrading. Could she really do what she's expected to do here? Can her people fair without her?

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[babysage]

"Wow your hair is so pretty!" A blonde haired child appears in front of her and smiles showing fangs.

"What's your name? I haven't seen you before!"

[bloodandfire]

She takes a step back when she sees him, with his blonde hair and blue eyes they could be related. But she knew that was hardly possibly, there would have been news of a child and considering his age it would have come before she joined up with the Dothraki.

Instinctively she touches her hair and offers him a smile, "I am Daenerys Targaryen. And you, child, what is your name?" The real question being what house do you belong to.

[babysage]

"Daenerys Targaryen," he struggled over the words, "It's a pretty name, mine if Kotaro Mochizuki!"

[bloodandfire]

"You may call me Dany if that is easier for you," she understood that her name could be difficult to pronounce, especially for children and Dany was much easier to say.

She repeats his name as well, slowly, it's foreign sounding and she can't place it at all, "Where are you from Kotaro?"

[babysage]

"Dany, it's nice to meet you Dany." He smiled at her again, "Erm well before I lived here I lived in the Special zone, it's near Japan and before that I lived in the sanctuary with my brother, the Princess and Crow."

[bloodandfire]

She smiles again, he's a cute child and even if she can't place his house he doesn't seem like the type that would try to do her any harm. Not that children, in her experience, were likely to understand and act upon the grudges of their families.

Dany shakes her head, "I'm sorry, I am unfamiliar with those places," she stops for a moment to think about what he said, "the Princess and Crow? What is that?" It was an odd and unsettling combination of names, royalty and harbingers of death.

[babysage]

"Oh, where are you from? I don't know many places! The princess is the Dark Princess of the North, she is really nice but she doesn't talk much and when she gets angry she can be really really scary." As someone who often caused, and bore the brunt of, her anger Kotaro knew what he was taking about.

"Crow is her guardian, he's nice."

[bloodandfire]

Confusion flashes across her face, she has never heard of any Dark Princess in the North. Has she been so sheltered that she does not know of a Dark Princess?

She shakes her head, "Forgive me, I do not know who you are referring to. I am from an island called Dragonstone, it is off of the coast of Westeros. Are you familiar with it?"

[babysage]

"Dragonstone? Is it ruled by the Lord Dragon? I didn't know he ruled anywhere, I thought he lived in the Special zone!" He had never heard of Westeros either, but he only really knew Japan, Russia and Hong Kong.

[maidenknight]

There is another person who has no recollection of how she got there, nor what the metal cage seems to be. A look out of what Brienne assumes is the window shows that they are moving towards something -- at first, she suspects it's a new creation from Oldtown. But the is so unlike anything the maesters have ever come up with that she's left grasping for a reasonable explanation.

Instead of dwelling on the matter, she decides to explore. Standing, she's tentative at first; the train was not made for people her size, and the lurching movements of the contraption make her wary. As the door to the compartment begins to slide open, Brienne reaches for Oathkeeper -- fumbles briefly when it's not on her hip -- but stops when she sees a slim figure in the door, instead of one of the brothers that had kidnapped her. The brothers that had put the noose around her neck, like a bad dream.

"I apologize, my lady." She gives the other woman a nod. "I didn't mean to startle you."

[bloodandfire]

Daenerys would have kept going once she realized that no one she knew was in this cart, but she hesitates. This is the first person to call her 'my lady' and treat her with some kind of respect, instead of yelling at her, after she barged in.

"You startle me? I am the one who barged in on your," she hesitates, what is this even called, "odd carriage. Please explain to me what this is and where we are headed," she speaks mostly with authority, her voice only shaking a bit at the prospect of being killed.

[maidenknight]

"I'm afraid that I don't know, my lady." The fact that this girl seems well-bred is enough to put her on edge; the unpleasantness of dealing with female nobility lurks in the back of Brienne's mind. However, she makes an effort to be unfailingly courteous. Perhaps this was a gift from the gods, to resume her search for Sansa. Perhaps the girl had even been kidnapped by the iron cage as well, presumably to somewhere across the Narrow Sea.

"I was looking for a maid, before I woke up in this moving cage. My sister, a maid of three and ten, with auburn hair." It's almost like reciting from a favorite book at this point, with the amount of times that she's said it. "But now we are moving forward, though I know not where."

[bloodandfire]

She once again appreciates the formality of it all, it is comforting to have her position be reaffirmed after most of the Dothraki left her, even if this other woman doesn't know who she is. Daenerys wants to push her further but she hears truth behind her words, she doesn't actually know where they are going.

"I see, you were kidnapped as well. Through my searches of this carriage I have not found one who matches that description. Have you happened upon a knight who goes by Ser Jorah?" after all this time it is odd to not have familiar people by her side, and he is one of the most familiar as well as her protector.

[maidenknight]

"I haven't...though my father spoke of him once." That was long ago, however, and she doesn't remember much of the conversation. She simply remembers the name Ser Jorah Mormont, and Ned Stark mentioned in the same breath. "Are you from Westeros?"

[bloodandfire]

That really catches her interest, it seemed like the other people on the train weren't from the same place she was, so to find someone from the same world who was familiar with the people she was, it was amazing. It had to be some kind of twist of fate. Was there any other solution?

"I was born on Dragonstone, an island off of the coast of Westeros. Are you from there as well?"

[maidenknight]

Dragonstone.

She's never seen them -- it was before her time, she's young, a Summer Knight (not even a knight) freshly free to wander the seven kingdoms. She was but a babe when the Targaryens were set upon by King Robert, but everyone knew of their fair looks. This is a Dragon she's speaking to; and suddenly it becomes so evident that it's almost ridiculous that she should have been ignorant of the fact.

Unsure of what to do -- Targaryen kings had a penchant for lopping people's heads off, after all -- she kneels. "I am Brienne, from the Isle of Tarth."

[bloodandfire]

Oh. It seems like this person, Brienne of Tarth, has heard of her. Daenerys is noticeably startled, she wasn't expecting to be knelt to here. It didn't seem like a place where her status meant anything, at least the other people who she barged into didn't seem to think so.

"Tarth? That is not far from the place of my birth. You may rise Brienne of Tarth."

Dany may be a Dragon but she is still kind, she would not beheard Brienne for not recognizing her status.

[maidenknight]

She rises, still uncomfortable with the situation. But in this era of so many kings, what's one more to add to the pile? Brienne really only feels -- felt -- loyalty to King Renly, and then to Catelyn Stark in turn. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she wonders if she even felt some loyalty to Jaime, at least a bit. But she puts that aside for now; her thoughts cannot wander when there is someone perhaps instrumentally important standing in front of her.

"We believed the Targaeryans to be dead, on the Isle of Tarth. I mean no disrespect, of course." And she didn't; she was simply stating fact. "But I must continue my quest here, no matter where this iron carriage is taking us." Of that, Brienne was certain. She must find Sansa, at least for Jaime if not herself.