Office #19, Tuesday Morning, 9/20
Sep. 20th, 2011 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
halfman_lionTyrion swore his paperwork had multiplied itself since last week. He spent the start of his office hours quarreling with it.
When that battle had temporarily fought itself to a draw, he started trying to research ways to fulfill his bargain with Lucrezia.
He hoped Kate could find him a decent tailor; while he maintained he had the right to dress badly, he preferred not to look like a child playing dress-up.
[ooc: open office, yo!]
When that battle had temporarily fought itself to a draw, he started trying to research ways to fulfill his bargain with Lucrezia.
He hoped Kate could find him a decent tailor; while he maintained he had the right to dress badly, he preferred not to look like a child playing dress-up.
[ooc: open office, yo!]
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Date: 2011-09-20 03:41 pm (UTC)And now the things she was saying were so far off that there was no chance Tyrion had simply been ill-informed or out of touch. If the girl wasn't lying or as mad as her father, this had to be a question of different worlds or different years. He wondered if the princess had thought of the possibility yet.
"I've no intention of threatening you or of bringing my family into this," he promised, since that seemed to be the key thing to get on the table first. "It would do me no good, and I don't need to bring your ... husband's wrath down on me. Why did he let his wife wander off to an island, anyhow?"
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Date: 2011-09-20 03:56 pm (UTC)"We intend to put me on the Iron Throne, now that the Usurper is gone. If you wish to continue to live, and study, and wine and whore as I've heard you do, when I am not just a khaleesi of the plains of Essos, but Queen of Westeros, you won't tell that witch you claim as a sister that I'm here. Or the Kingslayer. I want to take you at your word, but from what I've heard, it's best not to take a Lannister at face value."
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Date: 2011-09-20 04:24 pm (UTC)No, he wasn't. He was the weak link among his family; if he were trying to claim the throne, he'd look to put himself out of the way first.
He continued, "After Robert is gone, my family's support goes to his son Joffrey." Idiot as the boy was, he was of Lannister blood. "You must know that. My sister would consider helping you to conceal yourself here treason, given what you've just told me. Both of our heads would be on pikes."
And then he stopped, making no promises and asking no favors. He wanted to see what she'd say.
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Date: 2011-09-20 05:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-20 05:39 pm (UTC)"No dragons born for thousands of years, and not only do you have three, you have them quietly on an island this small," he said. "You'll forgive me if I have my doubts."
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Date: 2011-09-20 05:55 pm (UTC)She quirked a slight smile, and added, "My husband had forty-thousand followers before the age of thirty, and I'm gathering more now." All true. "But. If you don't tell the Kingslayer or your sister or your father, or anyone in Westeros, I give you my word that your life will be spared."
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Date: 2011-09-20 06:12 pm (UTC)He considered it for a moment, taking into account the fact he was more than half-sure she wasn't the Daenerys from his particular universe at all. And even if she was, the girl was young, and seemed to have more bravado than power. If her husband was sending her to this unpromising a territory, things must have gone wrong for her at home.
"However. As long as you pose no particular threat to the current king -- and believe me, I will be watching -- I won't hurt you myself, and I see no need to go out of my way to bring your whereabouts to light."
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Date: 2011-09-20 06:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-20 06:31 pm (UTC)Poor Robert. He'd drink for his dear departed brother-in-law tonight. Though he supposed his sympathy should be for the people who now had Joffrey as a king.
"Joffrey or his younger brother or anyone else my family backs," he corrected. "I suppose I should tell you, I'm not certain we're from the same exact world at all. Unless it's been a very eventful month at home."
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Date: 2011-09-20 06:33 pm (UTC)That...certainly changed things. It definitely made him less of a threat.
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Date: 2011-09-20 06:36 pm (UTC)It was more a rhetorical point than a genuine question.
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Date: 2011-09-20 06:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-20 06:56 pm (UTC)Besides, there was nothing she'd mentioned that he could stop. Well, he supposed he could go home and try to marry her before the Dothraki did, but that wasn't an especially good plan.
"Will you tell me if I die? I'd prefer to avoid that, if I can."
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Date: 2011-09-20 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-20 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-20 07:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-20 07:17 pm (UTC)Besides, of Robert and Cersei wanted Daenerys dead, they might have had reasons he didn't understand. Better just to let things play out.
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Date: 2011-09-20 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-20 07:55 pm (UTC)He wouldn't tell anyone what the future held, but perhaps he could plant the slightest suggestion that the Targaryens bore more watching. Just as a
matter of good housekeeping.
"So," he said. "Is this a truce?"
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Date: 2011-09-20 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-20 08:19 pm (UTC)Still. She was a girl, and he had the upper hand in so many ways that humoring her in this was a small thing.
"As you wish, Princess," he said. "And as long as you don't send bloodriders or dragons after me, I won't tell anyone that you're here."
This would be suspended if she made a sincere play for the throne in his world, but there was no need to make that argument right away.
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Date: 2011-09-20 08:25 pm (UTC)And his kindness. He was not as fearsome as the Lannisters were told to be, but then, what had she expected?