Daenerys Targaryen Third Aemulatio

This one was written during midterms. As such, I didn't spend much time on it at all. A quality dip is noticeable to me. This time we are trying to emulate Sophcle's Orpheus, specifically the use of stichomythia. We were allowed to use any hero tactic we had learned in class for this one. I chose to do Meeting with the Goddess in Campbell's Journey of a Hero again. Melisandre is, in a sense, giving Dany the ultimate boon which is part of it. Seeing as the goddess needs to be a mother figure, I had to work Melisandre and Dany a bit to make it fit somewhat.

SCENE III

Melisandre:

Know you, O Queen, of Azor Ahai, the last hero? Eight thousand years before Aegon's landing, the Others rose up then, as they do now. Wielding a sword blest by the Lord of Light, he defeated the Others and brought an end to the Long Night. He forged his sword to defeat them by plunging it into the heart of his wife. Her soul combined with the sword, my Queen, and gave it power. You must reforge a sword, your husband's sword, and use my heart and blood to temper it, for the Lord of Light and his power runs through my veins and this has been my role, since the beginning, to play. With the Red Sword of Heroes, the Others shall meet their end.

Daenerys:

It is a myth. It is nothing.

Melisandre:

It is everything.

Daenerys:

I see nothing.

Melisandre:

You see but feign blindness.

Daenerys:

If I do, it is for your benefit.

Melisandre:

At the detriment of all.

Daenerys:

You wish for death?

Melisandre:

It is not death, but life in a new manner.

Daenerys:

And I refuse, your counsel has helped guide me.

Melisandre:

Let me guide you with this.

Daenerys:

You've been the only mother figure I've had.

Melisandre:

And you as dear as a daughter.

Daenerys:

You would ask a daughter to spill her mother's blood?

Melisandre:

We shall both be reborn, you must fulfill your destiny.

Daenerys:

The price is too high.

Melisandre:

The price is right.

Daenerys:

There must be a different price for the same end.

Melisandre:

There's only the iron price.

Daenerys:

And if you are mistaken?

Melisandre:

I have looked into the flames and they spoke true.

Daenerys:

What did they say?

Melisandre:

You are the Azor Ahai reborn, and Lightbringer shall be your sword.