08x02, 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms'

"I'd rather you were down in the crypts too," Jorah says.

The room has emptied around them; Jon had made a hasty exit. This odd snubbing of his stings, but she tries to reason that it is difficult for him, being seen as a traitor to his homeland.

Jorah has given no indication that he's realised anything is amiss. She's grateful for that; more grateful that he hasn't abandoned her at the first opportunity to spend time anywhere but with her.

"Lady Stark may be happy to let her men fight in her name, but I'm not," she tells him.

"You're not a warrior," he says gently.

In the past she would've lost her temper at him daring to say such things, but she came so close to never hearing his voice again, and his words come from a place of deep respect—of love. She won't take offence to them.

"I'm not. But I am the Dragon Queen. I need to be there with them. I can't lose another." Viserion's ghost rises, hurtling from the sky like the shierak qiya, the blood smoking and steaming as it thundered down.

No one understands her despair like Jorah. "Then promise not to take any unnecessary risks."

It's not a promise she's sure she can keep given the chaos that's to come, but if it helps to put him at ease then she'll give him that. "I promise."

"I must go," he says with a resigned acceptance. "I want to find Lyanna."

Of course he wants to spend what could be his final hours with his kin, but nevertheless Dany feels a stab of dismay. A silly part of her had thought that perhaps they could wait together. Together at the start, together at the end.

She won't stop him.

The next time she sees him she tells him he will be lord commander of her queensguard, that they will be happy in King's Landing. Hopes, with all of her heart, that they see each other afterwards.

She leaves him there in the snow to find Jon.

And diverges from her destiny.