Danyla's words plunged everyone into a brief silence. They had thought that once she accepted their gifts, she would stop bringing up the Faceless Men. Instead, she had taken the gifts, and the matter still wasn't settled! ⊙▽⊙
At the sight of this, Sealord Utherys could not help feeling secretly pleased.
Hmph! Did you really think this Dragon Princess would be so easy to appease? Five million Gold Dragons and a few little islands? How generous! If she were that easy to appease, she wouldn't have uprooted House Hightower.
Still, I'm rather looking forward to seeing what the Princess does next!
Danyla looked perfectly composed, but every word she spoke concealed a needle beneath its softness.
"After all, the waves cannot settle while the wind still blows."
"Everyone says Braavos owes its rise to the three horses pulling its carriage: the Iron Bank, the Purple Fleet, and the Faceless Men."
"But even the sturdiest house can be destroyed from within."
"Now the House of Black and White has met with disaster after repeatedly committing unjust acts. If trouble breaks out elsewhere, even the sturdiest carriage might overturn! After all, the long night stretches on, with danger at every turn!"
If Braavos still hoped to fob Danyla off as it had King Jaehaerys, it had badly miscalculated. The House of Black and White had been destroyed, its long-standing traditions severed. Even if some Faceless Men had survived, they no longer posed much of a threat.
Back then, King Jaehaerys had genuinely feared assassination by the Faceless Men. Great Dragons might be invincible, but the members of the Targaryen Royal House were not.
Now the House of Black and White lay in ruins, and the vast majority of its elite Faceless Men had perished along with it. Years of accumulated traditions had