"I am sure, were pasta to have been invented in Westeros during your father's reign, he would have found it uniquely delicious," Tyrion concedes, in a tone that conveys sweeping the whole debate aside.

At the very least Viserys is looking at the food now. Tyrion allows the muscles alongside his spine to incrementally and very slightly relax.

A pause; he lets Viserys read while he considers the matter of broaching his new loyalties. To most his concern is the deviation from family, but the Targaryen children were not completely raised in Westeros and therefore perhaps he would not expect Tyrion to put his name before anything else. Where he foresees real eggshells is Tyrion choosing to extend his services to Daenerys in particular.

"You know who I am of course, and I know you. I had been traveling with your sister for some time before my arrival here."