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Daenerys III
A Game of Thrones chapter
AGameOfThrones.jpg
POV Daenerys
Place The Dothraki Sea
Page US HC (Other versions)
Chapter chronology (All)
Daenerys II
Arya II  ← Daenerys III →  Bran IV

Daenerys IV

Daenerys learns to embrace her life in Drogo's khalasar, and stands up to Viserys for the first time. Finally, when Drogo arrives to have sex her, she rides him instead of him taking her from behind and becomes pregnant.

Synopsis

Daenerys looks out for the first time onto the vast, empty, flat plain of the Dothraki Sea with Ser Jorah Mormont beside her. Daenerys sees she has out-distanced the rest of Drogo’s khalasar, who are still climbing the ridge behind her. Among them she can see her brother Viserys struggling with his riding. The sight brings back the memory of Illyrio Mopatis offering to let Viserys stay in Pentos as his guest. Viserys had refused and insisted on coming with the khalassar to ensure that Drogo would give him the army that he promised. Daenerys commands Jorah and the others to wait. Jorah comments that Daenerys is starting to sound like a queen but Daenerys corrects him, calling herself a khaleesi.

As she rides out alone, Daenerys reflects on how the days of the journey have hardened her body. She no longer has open saddle sores nor does she suffer unbearable pain after a day’s ride. At first, during the day Drogo would ignore Daenerys—spending time talking, drinking, and racing with his blood riders—so Daenerys was left to eat meals alone or with her brother and Ser Jorah. Yet every night Drogo would come and ride her from behind. She had been miserable until she had had a dream of a dragon that engulfed her in flame and cleansed her. After that each day had been easier than the one before it and she had found pleasure in the new sights of the journey, and even started to enjoy sex with Drogo.

Once she is totally alone, Daenerys decides to dismount and take off her boots so she can feel the earth. Suddenly, Viserys is there, screaming and grabbing her. He is furious that she commanded him to stay on the ridge. She shoves him back and sees that he intends to hurt her, but before he can Jhogo’s whip catches him around the neck and pulls him to the ground.

Her handmaiden Irri translates for them as Jhogo asks if Daenerys would like to see Viserys dead or disfigured as punish for his attack. Daenerys declines, but tells them to take Viserys’ horse and make him walk; an emasculating punishment among the horselords. Viserys, now recovered enough to shout, orders Ser Jorah to kill the Dothraki, but the exiled knight makes the decision to turn to Daenerys and agree that Viserys should walk.

Daenerys is amazed that she had hit Viserys and explains to Mormont that she has woken Viserys’ dragon. Ser Jorah replies that Viserys is not the Dragon; Rhaegar was the last Dragon. When Ser Jorah asks Daenerys if she would want to have her brother as the king, she realizes that Viserys’ would not be a good king. Daenerys asks if the people of Westeros are waiting for his return and Ser Jorah tells her that the peasants only want to survive. Daenerys declares to Ser Jorah that Viserys will never be able to retake the Seven Kingdoms, realizing that she has known this for a long time. Viserys could not lead an army even if her husband gave him one.

Daenerys races her silver ahead of Ser Jorah and the others. It is dusk by the time she returns to the khalassar. Daenerys imagines the laughter in the khalassar when news spreads about Viserys; by the time her brother is able to return everyone in the camp will know him as a walker.

As she enters her tent, Daenerys sees a finger of light touch her dragon eggs and, for a moment, she sees scarlet flames before her eyes. When she goes to touch her eggs they feel hot, which she attributes to the sunshine during the day. Daenerys remembers all of the stories about other magical creatures and wonders why there should not also be dragons.

Her Dothraki handmaidens, Irri and Jhiqui, tell her that dragons were all killed by men. However, her Lysene handmaiden Doreah, a former sex slave, tells Daenerys a story about a time when there were two moons in the sky, but one came to close to the sun and cracked, releasing the first dragons. The story ends by claiming that one day the other moon will crack and the dragons will return. The other handmaidens make fun of the story, saying that the moon is a goddess.

Daenerys sends Irri and Jhiqui away but orders Doreah to stay with her for dinner. When Drogo returns she takes him outside because Dothraki customs say that everything of importance must be done under the open sky. When Drogo tries to take her from behind Daenerys tells him that she want to see his face and climbs on top of him. She rides Drogo as fiercely as she has ever ridden her horse and in the moment of his pleasure Drogo calls out her name.

On the far side of the Dothraki Sea, on her 14th nameday, Daenerys’s handmaiden Jhiqui brushes her stomach and tells her that she is pregnant.

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