Drabble_weekly Challenge 134 - The Master's circus

[m_findlow]

Title: The Master's circus
Fandom: Game of Thrones
Author: m_findlow
Characters/Pairing: Tyrion, Penny, Sweets
Rating: PG
Challenge: 134 - Elephant at drabble_weekly
Warnings: none
Spoilers: A Dance With Dragons
Summary: Tyrion lays eyes upon a creature he has never seen before. A double drabble.

Tyrion stared up in awe at the creature which lolled its way slowly across the courtyard of Yezzan's silk tented palace. 'What is it?' he asked, his breath barely a whisper.

'An elephant,' Penny replied. The young dwarf frowned at him. 'Do you not have elephants in Westeros?'

Tyrion shook his head without taking his eyes off it. Not near so large as the dragons in tales of years gone by, but the largest living beast he had ever laid eyes on. Another of Yezzan's treasures, no doubt, Tyrion surmised. Their camp was truly a grotesquerie. Dwarves, two-headed women, a boy that looked like a goat, and now this huge beast with a nose like a giant snake and ears as big and flat as tabletops. What next? Striped lions and white bears like those from the stories his wet nurse had told him?

'Careful, little ones,' Sweets crooned in his ear, the hermaphrodite's lace gown tickling Tyrion's ear as she leaned closer than he liked. 'Master would not be pleased if his littlest treasures were trampled by his largest treasure. Perhaps we'll get you riding her soon instead of those fat pigs. Master would find that very amusing indeed.'