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Viserys
When Viserys woke, he heard a woman singing a sad, lonely song. He listened for a while with his eyes closed, and soon ascertained that the song spoke of a dying mother saying goodbye to her children. Eventually it got too sad and he opened his eyes and told the singer to stop. It was Nina Flowers.
She fell silent without argument, and he asked what had happened. She answered that it had been an assassin, and that Daenerys had had him killed and his head sent back to King's Landing. Viserys sat up in fury - how dare his little sister decide the fate of a man who had tried to kill him?
But when he expressed this sentiment, Nina pushed him back down onto the bed and told him not to be silly.
"You would have inflicted a similar punishment. Now lie still so I can change the bandages on your hands."
When she removed the bandages, Viserys saw the raw skin underneath and could not understand it. He was a Dragon! Fire should not be able to harm him.
When he voiced this fear quietly, Nina smiled slightly.
"You should not worry yourself so," she answered, "the Dothraki will still give you an army."
"But the fire runs in my veins! It is a part of me, it should not be dangerous to me!"
"A man may drown in a lake of blood, though that same substance is inside him. It does not make him less of a man, that blood can harm him though he has blood. So a Dragon may be burnt by fire and still carry the flames within himself."
Nina's words were so wise that for a moment Viserys could not speak. Then he winced as she began to apply a salve to his burns. He bit his lip, but soon the pain subsided and she wrapped new bandages around his hands.
Viserys remembered little of the fire, but he knew it was her who had saved him. He suddenly realised that without her he would not be alive.
"Thank you," he said, swallowing his pride as best he could and trying to forget he was speaking to a baseborn serving girl, "I owe you my life."
"Yes, you do," she answered.
"I think you can probably have that place in my Kingsguard now," he answered quietly, "seeing as I have none and it seems I am in more danger than before."
Nina nodded to acknowledge the great honour he was bestowing on her, and then she knelt, kissed his hand in fealty and swore loyalty to him.
He accepted her vow and then lay down, exhausted by the whole miserable affair. She sat beside him for a time, and just before he fell asleep, Viserys felt her pull a silk cloak over him, kiss his brow, wish him sweet dreams and leave.
He tried to pull himself from sleep to accost her for this overly-familiar behaviour, but he was so tired, he simply could not do it, and he allowed himself to slip into unconsciousness.
