More nodding: he’s already tried most of these things.

“We have gryphons where I come from, but they aren’t real creatures — just one of the sigils men have taken for their noble Houses. But you never know what is real to some person who comes from another place. I would never have thought that there were worlds that never had dragons… the Valyrians ruled so much of the world with them that it seems hard to imagine, no matter that they’re gone now.”