Oh, my greatest hero was the Young Dragon. Another Targaryen, Daeron I... the real dragons were dead by then, but a three-headed dragon is the Targaryen sigil. He conquered Dorne, the southernmost of the Kingdoms, when he was fourteen years old, but he only held it for a fortnight.
He lost sixty thousand men. Not a hero now.
[His expression becomes thoughtful again, lips pressed lightly together and brows drawing down, and his next words come out more slowly.]
You get older, and it's less the men in stories and more the men you've known who you look up to, at least if you've been lucky enough to know good ones. I have been. The Young Dragon was brave, but no one should lose that many men, least of all in a boy's failed attempt to win glory.
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He lost sixty thousand men. Not a hero now.
[His expression becomes thoughtful again, lips pressed lightly together and brows drawing down, and his next words come out more slowly.]
You get older, and it's less the men in stories and more the men you've known who you look up to, at least if you've been lucky enough to know good ones. I have been. The Young Dragon was brave, but no one should lose that many men, least of all in a boy's failed attempt to win glory.