where you end and i begin

From my blood comes the Prince That Was Promised, and his will be the Song of Ice and Fire.

"When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone."

"What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise! The error crept in from the translation. Dragons are neither male nor female, Barth saw the truth of that, but now one and now the other, as changeable as flame. The language misled us all for a thousand years. Daenerys is the one, born amidst salt and smoke. The dragons prove it."

"Her coming is the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy. From smoke and salt was she born to make the world anew. She is Azor Ahai returned... and her triumph over darkness will bring a summer that will never end... death itself will bend its knee, and all those who die fighting in her cause shall be reborn ..."

HI WAIT HELLO THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME jackienat parallels jackienat parallels jackienat parallels, these scenes are paralleled the entire time!!! multiple shots are intercut with each other, we follow them both as they're contemplating, deciding, and "acting" (or not acting)

shauna is watching jackie, she DOESN'T intervene and jackie DOES die

meanwhile we now know lottie's cult (and by extension, lottie) was watching nat and they DO intervene and nat DOESN'T die

ALSO?? LISTEN TO ME nat had just accepted that travis truly did commit suicide, something that she had been desperate to find another reason for, to explain away, to not let tarnish their relationship or his love for her. a BETRAYAL that she wanted so DESPERATELY to be anything BUT that. jackie had been sitting on her knowledge of shauna's journal, she'd been trying to get her to fess up, trying to see what she would say to explain it away, trying desperately to get shauna to say that she loved her, that she was sorry, that it didn't have to tarnish their relationship or her love for her. a BETRAYAL that she wanted so DESPERATELY to be anything BUT that.