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He doesn't know Dalla. In ASoS Mance tells Jon he went to Winterfell as a bard to see King Robert and on his way back to the Wall he met Dalla.
Since Robert didn't go to Winterfell, Mance didn't go either (just two years later when he met Catelyn).
Of whores and queens
Theon stands by the high window of the queen's chamber, watching the sunrise over the Narrow Sea. The sky has all the colors of summer, carmine and orange and gold, but there is no warmth in the rays of the sun.
"What's wrong?" Daenerys asks in a lazy, drowsy voice.
Everything.
Theon turns away from the view and shakes his head.
"Come back to bed," she calls him.
He does but only sits on the bedside.
Shutting her eyes, Daenerys lays on her stomach. Her face is serene, her left arm is resting on the pillow.
Theon touches her skin near the stump. "What happened to your hand?"
Daenerys opens her eyes.
"Someone tried to kill me." She is awake now. There is cold anger in her tone. "A Sorrowful Man in the docks of Qarth. He gave me a manticore. It's a…"
"I know what it is." Vollys told him about it.
"It stung me but Aggo, my bloodrider whipped out his arakh and chopped my hand off. He was quick enough, still, I almost died. After the wound was burnt I had high fever for a week."
"I'm sorry," Theon replies mostly because that is the polite thing to say in such matters.
Slowly, she closes her eyes again. "It was a useful lesson anyway," she murmurs. "Made me much more wary."
Theon cannot help but ask and there is a kind of challenge in his question, "Wary enough?"
Daenerys stares at him, and just like the sun, her gaze does not have any warmth.
"Sometimes."
He leaves the Queen's chamber but barely makes a few steps and he finds himself face to face with Shireen.
"Good morning," she greets him courteously.
Theon sighs. "Good morning, little lady."
Shireen does not move, so he does not either.
"Will you marry her?" She asks with innocent curiosity in her voice.
"No."
"But you lay with her."
He cannot deny it, of course.
"Yes."
"My mother says women who lay with men without marriage are whores," Shireen declares, then, she frowns. "But she can't be a whore, she is a queen."
It is not so simple, though, he would not call Daenerys a whore either. But he does not want to speak about that with Shireen.
"It's complicated."
The wrinkles on her forehead deepen. "Do you think I wouldn't understand?"
No, she probably would understand more than her lady mother who also has a harsh opinion on men who lay with women without marriage – and she definitely has her opinion on Theon in general.
"She is our enemy."
"I know."
"Do you?" Selyse raises her eyebrows high. "Your behavior proves otherwise."
"Our best interest – all of ours – is to keep a good relationship with her."
If Daenerys does not see a threat in anyone on Dragonstone, she might not be a threat to them either.
"Yes, all of us heard last night how good of a relationship you keep with her."
"What's wrong?" Shireen asks worriedly.
Everything.
She would understand. Not what he does perhaps but that he does what he feels he must. Theon, however, does not want her to have to understand, so he only shakes his head.
