a song of ice and fire meme ★ [5/10] pov characters = tyrion lannister
when he was still a lonely child in the depths of casterly rock, he oft rode dragons through the nights, pretending he was some lost targaryen princeling, or a valyrian dragonlord soaring high o'er fields and mountains. once, when his uncles asked him what gift he wanted for his nameday, he begged them for a dragon. “it wouldn’t need to be a big one. it could be little, like i am.” his uncle gerion thought that was the funniest thing he had ever heard, but his uncle tygett said, “the last dragon died a century ago, lad.” that had seemed so monstrously unfair that the boy had cried himself to sleep that night.