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[partialities]

Who: margaery tyrell
Broadcast: fleet wide
Action: the windrose and all around the moon
When: current

[ enter margaery tyrell of the windrose. remember? silks, beautiful curls, too generous of a cleavage for a sixteen year old? queen to be?

today, the pale pink silks are tainted, as well as the usual fair skin with a mixture of dirt, mud, leaves and at least three colors of paint. ]

I do believe I won against the locals in their odd little paint game. I find it quite brilliant if a little bit of a hazard if one is very attached to their clothes.

[ the queen to be seems much more of a brat today ]

I offer a different game of chance. some smallfolk in my realm say that one can tell someone's future and their traits according to the palm of their hands. I was told it is all false but.

[ there is a but with margaery tyrell ]

A guessing game! I shall attempt to read your palm and if three of my guesses are correct, that must be worth a prize. I shall leave it to you to choose what to give me. If I lose, I shall of course be in debt of one prize to my company.

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[partialities]

[ according to tyrion's words margaery herself is named Your Grace in his own time but such she shall keep a secret. she will not bear any title that she does not remember winning and it is best to be in a dragon queen's good graces, after all.

what is the little queen if not a diplomat ]

If you wish. If you cannot think of one, I am certain I have one in mind.

[moonofmylife]

If you guess wrongly.

[That's the part that will be interesting. She doesn't know her very well and this palm reading thing sounds like all guesswork.]

Would you be willing to come aboard the Caprine?

[Because the lack of guards around her or friendly faces would make her uneasy, honestly. Better to have this one come into her territory if she tried anything.]

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If Your Grace invites me, it shall be my pleasure.

[ her smile is bright and dipped in something that's both coy and mischievous at the same time. the rose of highgarden seems very keen on being able to say she was invited by the dragon queen. if anything, it should make for an interesting tale ]

[moonofmylife]

[Of course it would be. She can practically feel the political implications dripping from every word the girl speaks. Or perhaps that came from spending time dealing with duplicity in Quarth and then having knives at her back between there and Mereen.]

I look forward to it. I'm interested to hear more stories of my people, if you have any to tell.

[Because knowledge was power and she needed to know how best to take back her throne. What better way to learn than to hear it straight from the would be Queen?]

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I have many, Your Grace but - some are less pleasant than others.

[ said carefully, as if it shames her to admit. she imagines the targarayen queen would know much of the recent happenings in westeros. the walls in king's landings have ears and the whispers reach far beyond what anyone can imagine ]

I shall gladly tell you as many as you wish.

[moonofmylife]

If I wanted pleasant stories I would expect them to be lies, if what I have heard is correct. I have several houses of the Seven Kingdoms to thank for that, I expect.

[MAYBE including the Tyrells.]

[partialities]

Some are pleasant, still. I could tell you of Highgarden, my house's seat, of the ripe fruit and the summerwine and the fields of golden roses and the blue water in the fountains. And yet -

[ she halts, bites her lip ]

I imagine Your Grace would care to hear more of King's Landing.

[moonofmylife]

Can you tell me more?

[She's trying not to sound quite so... angry, but damn it the Lannisters make her feel this burning rage she can't bite bake.]

I have only ever heard bits and pieces - stories my brother Viserys told me and then stories from Ser Barristan Selmy.

[It isn't entirely Margaery's fault that things are like this.]

[partialities]

[ so that is where ser selmy went to. margaery has heard joffrey speak of him with spite not once. she was hoping the man was alright. she knew joffrey had not killed him or else he would have paraded the corpse around the entire capital. ]

I shall speak of anything you wish me to, Your Grace.

[ humbly, with a hint of shame that she knows well to include ]

Your Grace, you may have heard of it before but I do feel I must tell you or else you should think me wicked and deceitful. I am to marry the king on the Iron Throne as that is what my father wishes. We do not know each other, not truly.

[ she knows enough of joffrey and all that she knows she mislikes. yet she knows the ice is thin here. for the rose of highgarden who wishes to be a queen to speak to the dragongirl who wishes for the same throne.

her own ambitions must be kept secret. ]

I have never been to King's Landing before my Lord Father had arranged the match and I know for certain, Your Grace, he knows not of the existence of you and your brother. King Robert had announced all the dragons are gone from the world before he himself was killed. they say he was killed during a hunt in the woods.

[ carefully ]

You must know, Your Grace, my house remained loyal to house Targaryen during the rebellion. My father, Lord of Highgarden, fought against king Robert and won the battle of Ashford. He knew King Aerys and was loyal to him, never once straying. Would that I could write to him of this meeting, I am certain that would -- release me from my duties to marry King Joffrey.

[ a beat ]

He --- they say he will not be a gentle husband to me yet - now I feel I said too much. Forgive me, your Grace.

[moonofmylife]

[Dany listens, feeling a swell of pity for the girl. She was being forced into a marriage, as she had been when Viserys had sold her to the Dothraki. She'd been fortunate that Drogo had been the one true love of her life and he had made a Queen of her. Not all girls are quite so fortunate.]

I cannot promise to help free you of a marriage to the Usurper's boy until he is dead. I will take back my throne. No Lannister will ever seat upon it again when I cross the Narrow Sea.

[And House Tyrell would probably prosper and bloom from the ashes that remained. And while Dany knows of King Joffrey's reign being short, she knows nothing of the boy King who replaced him. He would surely meet the same fate.]

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I am certain my house shall celebrate your return, your Grace.

[ if she is successful, that is. the tyrells know what is good for them. doing anything in haste is never a clever endeavor. ]

I fear very little can free me of such. I shall have to my duty. It is what all wives must do, I suppose. We all wed before the Gods, after all.

[moonofmylife]

I am sure you will.

[No, she knows she'll have to prove herself and take back King's Landing by force if she is to succeed in winning any favors.]

I suppose even in Westeros we must serve to do what is expected of us. It was no different when I was married against my wishes, but I was lucky. Not all of us are so lucky to be matched well to their spouses.