No, her stories weren't told by others. There was a sense that they were only stories to frighten children. Even for interest, I was more drawn in by stories our maester — our tutor — told us, the ones of Danielle's forebears.
[Now, he wonders, were those people real to him, or was it only that he aspired to heroic deeds? Some people see him as a hero now, but he doesn't feel like a hero, just someone who has scraped and scraped to survive and to help others survive. Heroism for its own sake, for the sake of renown, feels like such a petty thing these days.
A lot about Jhashch feels petty to him, even if its origins weren't. Is this sort of society what things come to if you're not careful?
How different is it really from King's Landing or further-flung places like Braavos or Volantis?]
We can test it, but we don't know enough. We can talk to people. Maybe there are books. If we survive this, there may be books back at BASE, too. The story means something to the enemy — we shouldn't stop thinking about it after we leave this place.
[And he wishes, now, that Sam could be at BASE, spending his days in the library. It would be good to see his friend, and better if he could apply his mind and his ability to find things in books to all of this.]
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[Now, he wonders, were those people real to him, or was it only that he aspired to heroic deeds? Some people see him as a hero now, but he doesn't feel like a hero, just someone who has scraped and scraped to survive and to help others survive. Heroism for its own sake, for the sake of renown, feels like such a petty thing these days.
A lot about Jhashch feels petty to him, even if its origins weren't. Is this sort of society what things come to if you're not careful?
How different is it really from King's Landing or further-flung places like Braavos or Volantis?]
We can test it, but we don't know enough. We can talk to people. Maybe there are books. If we survive this, there may be books back at BASE, too. The story means something to the enemy — we shouldn't stop thinking about it after we leave this place.
[And he wishes, now, that Sam could be at BASE, spending his days in the library. It would be good to see his friend, and better if he could apply his mind and his ability to find things in books to all of this.]