Time to what?

She definitely nods but she doesn’t give a convincing yes to Tyrion. She nods and then immediately says those lines to Greyworm

Now... Earlier in the convo they have this exchange

“The people who live there, they’re not your enemies,” Tyrion says, still pleading for time and arguing against the attack that Cersei is baiting her into. “They’re innocents, like the ones you liberated in Meereen.”

“In Meereen,” Daenerys Targaryen says, “the slaves turned on the masters and liberated the city themselves the moment I arrived.”

In other words, the people of King’s Landing haven’t welcomed her with open arms and resisted Queen Cersei. It’s a line delivered so quickly that it’s easy to miss what’s behind it: Daenerys Targaryen is trivializing the lives of tens of thousands of her potential subjects. If they get hurt, it’s their fault for not automatically and unconditionally loving her.

“They’re afraid,” Tyrion says. “Anyone who resists Cersei will see his family butchered. You can’t expect them to be heroes. They’re hostages.”

“They are. In a tyrant’s grip. Whose fault is that? Mine?”

“What does it matter whose fault it is? Thousands of children will die if the city burns.”

“Your sister knows how to use her enemies’ weaknesses against them. That’s what she thinks our mercy is: weakness.”


Great breakdown of all the scenes from this episode on Polygon. It also shows how Varys is afraid of what she is capable of and knows she isn’t fit to rule.

https://www.polygon.com/game-of-thrones/2019/5/15/18623715/game-of-thrones-episode-5-the-bells-breakdown-what-happened