Dany smiled. She had an advantage, of course, in that she was more familiar with horses than some of the people here seemed to be, but that still didn't help when the creature that she had been given jumped and danced underneath her, and made it seem like she was the one with the problem

But she had more than made herself seem strange in other ways, between her curiosity and her dragon--for those who seemed to notice these things, at least.

"I truly have no idea where we are, or how I came to be here," she admitted, dropping her chin slightly and looking up through her pale eyelashes. "When I woke up in the saddle, I thought for certain that I must be dreaming, yet the dream has not ended.

"You won't tell anyone, will you?"