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[john-silvers]

BLACK SAILS, XXXVI

[daeneryssansa]

To rise from where you began to where you now stand, I cannot imagine the road you’ve traveled, the humiliations and the sacrifices and the defeats and the illusions maintained at so great a cost to your sense of self.

[daeneryssansa]

But I held out hope from the beginning, a fantasy, that despite what we’d heard of her, she was learning, growing. And that someday, she’d seek me out, and a woman who reminded me of myself when I was younger would arrive in Boston, and I’d walk the Charles with her and teach her the things a woman can do in this world. It’s the wrong river and the wrong woman, but perhaps to get even this close to a fantasy is something.

[daeneryssansa]

I held out hope from the beginning, a fantasy, that despite what we’d heard of her, she was learning, growing, and that someday, she’d seek me out, and a woman who reminded me of myself when I was younger would arrive in Boston, and I’d walk the Charles with her and teach her the things a woman can do in this world.