The The The And then. Oh, Oh, well. So, I'm going to go. The Dance of the Dragons is mentioned in a Song of Ice and Fire, not with a lot of detail there's some it's fun but it's kind of

scattered that changed in 2013 when George published the princess and the queen a

novella in a collection called Dangerous Women.

It's quite good, actually.

All the stories in that collection are very entertaining.

I highly recommend it.

But this was expanded on the following year

in the world of Ice and Fire and Fire, and then four years more

after that, in Fire and Fire and

and then four years more after that in Fire and Blood.

But it goes to show that Rainira and Allison

have been at the heart of the dance

ever since George first fleshed it out.

They were the first framing device he chose.

The TV show made changes to them and their ages and various other details,

but it kept their relationship very much central to the show,

with Olivia Cook and Emma Darcy as features among an ensemble cast.

And we're going to discuss that journey today.

Their characters as they intersect with one another,

parallels, hidden stuff, stuff you've noticed, but needs more explanation or just a good fun thing to talk

about and we've got a special guest to help us through this effort today so we've

got all that and more on this episode of

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