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Originally Posted by TheNewGirl

Yeah there was a big alteration in Dany's story. Not really in what happened but why it happened (and through the whole thing there's been more of those in Dany's story line then anyone else's).

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In the book she totally goes into the fire cause she's grieving and fully expects to die. Other wise she would have had to go to the mountain and live with the other widows of the horse lords for the rest of her days. She decided burning, as long as she burned the bitch who killed her husband with her was preferable.

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I don't think that's why she went in at all. I got the impression that she was drawn to the beauty of the flames. As Ronin mentioned, I think the book also alluded to the fact that she had a sense of her invulnerability to fire.