[helaena smiles at her mother, it widens when she speaks of rhaena. her mother could not have known rhaena, rhaena left the crownlands before her mother came. helaena does not know if she envies her. she would like very much to escape with her children, but she doesn't know who she would give blackfyre to (and she would not like to leave her mother, but she thinks her mother would stay).

she laughs a little at the request, incredulously. things happen so rarely that helaena does not expect––but she hadn't expected to come here (who might have taken her mother flying, that she has cause to regret it? her father never claimed another dragon after the black dread; helaena does not blame him, though others might).]

I would be glad to take you, but I haven't seen it done. We can go to Dreamfyre, I think she would not mind. There is not so much sky here as there was, though.

[she does not know how to explain the monsters that lurk above their heads, worse than dancing dragons.

her omen says "The Tower of bone casts not light but shadow, there is no haven in the stars."]