Daenerys leaned into him as tears welled in her eyes. "We don't have a choice, do we? We must return to Essos, if we want to stay alive and live happily with our daughter. That is our only choice, isn't it?"

She looked at Daella's innocent sleeping figure. "There's no hope for us here. His line is secured, in four children." She would not resort to the butchery that had destroyed almost the entire Stark clan.