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Daenerys VI
A Game of Thrones chapter
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POV Daenerys
Place Vaes Dothrak
Page 487 US HC (Other versions)
Chapter chronology (All)
Daenerys V
Bran VI  ← Daenerys VI →  Catelyn VIII

Daenerys VII

Daenerys has been unable to convince Khal Drogo to assault the Seven Kingdoms to regain her throne. After Drogo leaves for a hunt, Daenerys goes to the market where a wine merchant offers her a cask of wine. When Ser Jorah insists that the merchant drink first, the merchant refuses and attempts to flee. When Drogo learns of the attempt to poison Daenerys, he makes the decision to attack the Seven Kingdoms.

Synopsis

Khal Drogo is telling Daenerys that he has no need of an iron chair. Daenerys tells him that it is prophesized that the Stallion will ride to the ends of the earth but Drogo responds that the earth ends at the salt sea which no horses can cross. Daenerys tries to explain ships to him but Drogo is not interested and leaves to go hunting. She can only hope that his hunting goes well and that he might return with more willingness to listen; maybe he will even kill a hrakkar, the white lion of the plains. Although he is brave even by Dothraki standards, Drogo still fears the sea, like all Dothraki.

Daenerys sends for Ser Jorah. When he arrives, she tells him that he needs to convince her husband to ride west. Ser Jorah explains that Drogo has never seen the Seven Kingdoms and probably thinks of them as small islands; the riches of the east seem a lot more tempting. He continues that she should have patience and not make her brother’s mistake. Ser Jorah promises that eventually they will go home. The Seven Kingdoms is something Daenerys has never seen either, and she wonders if the dosh khaleen is her future.

Ser Jorah also brings word that a great caravan has just arrived and asks if she would like to visit the Western Market; the caravan may carry a letter from Magister Illyrio. She likes this idea since it will nice to see the treasures, to hear the sound of the Valyrian language, and (since Drogo is gone) travel in a litter; she does not want to appear weak in front of her husband by not riding a horse.

Daenerys finds the market quiet compared to what she is used to. The caravans come from east and west not so much to sell to the Dothraki as to trade with each other. The Dothraki do not understand the concept buying and selling, but the merchants are welcome as long as they do not disturb the peace or profane the Mother of Mountains and give the traditional gifts to the dosh khaleen. Daenerys enjoys the wonder and magic of the Eastern Market, with its strange foods and people, but the Western Market reminds her of home. She tells Ser Jorah about how she loved to play in the bazaars of the Free Cities when she was a little girl even though they seldom had money to buy anything.

Ser Jorah tells Daenerys that he will look for merchant captain to ask about letters from Illyrio, but when Daenerys offers to join him he is insistent that he go alone. Daenerys finds this curious and wonders if the knight plans to visit a brothel afterwards. Daenerys wanders joyfully around for half the morning, even laughing for the first time since her brother’s death.

Turning a corner, they come upon a wine merchant offering thimbles of wines. Daenerys accepts a taste of the wine, speaking in Valyrian, which surprises the merchant, until Doreah steps up to declare all of Daenerys’ titles. The merchant immediately insists that the wine he was going to offer her is not worthy of a princess and offers her a cask of fine wine. Daenerys graciously accepts the cask, knowing that Drogo has acquired a taste for fine wine from his time in around the Free Cities.

As Daenerys is ordering the cask taken back to the litter, Ser Jorah appears and states he wants a taste of the wine. The wine merchant resists, insisting that Ser Jorah is not fit for such wine, but relents and pours two cups when Ser Jorah threatens him. Then Ser Jorah orders the merchant to drink. Instead, the merchant throws the cask at Daenerys and flees. Ser Jorah pushes Daenerys out of the way and Doreah just barely catches her before she falls on her pregnant belly. Jhogo uses his whip to trip the merchant. The ruckus brings a dozen caravan guards and merchant captain running. The merchant captain seems to guess what has happened. He orders the merchant taken away to await Khal Drogo and gives the merchant’s goods to Daenerys as a gift. Daenerys asks Ser Jorah how he knew but the knight insists that he only suspected because the letter from Magister Illyrio had made him fearful. As they return, Daenerys notes that her baby is moving restlessly and she comforts him with words about being the blood of the dragon.

When they get back to hollow hummock that serves as her home, Daenerys orders the rest to leave her with Ser Jorah. The knight explains that the letter from Magister Illyrio brings news that the Usurper has offered lands and a lordship to anyone that kills Daenerys and her child or her brother. Daenerys observes, with a laughing sob, that the Usurper owes Drogo a lordship for killing Viserys.

Daenerys then thinks that the Usurper has woken her dragon and looks over to her dragon eggs. She commands Ser Jorah to light the brazier despite the heat and then asks him to leave. She then pushes the eggs under the coals, wondering if she is destroying the eggs. Nothing happens and Daenerys is very disappointed, but wonders even to herself what she had expected.

Drogo returns with the carcass of a hrakkar as the stars comes out. After he tells her that he will make a cloak of the skin, Daenerys tells him what has happened. Drogo becomes very quiet as Ser Jorah tells him that this will not be the last attempt. For their roles in saving his khaleesi, Drogo gives his Ser Jorah and Jhogo their choice of his horses. Drogo also proclaims a gift for his unborn son, Rhaego: the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. Drogo then swears to the Mother of Mountains that he will take his khalasar west and take the wooden horses to Westeros to kill the men in their iron suits and tear down their stone houses and rape their women.

Two days later, the khalasar leaves Vaes Dothrak, headed southwest. The wine seller is forced to run naked, chained behind Daenerys’ silver. No harm will come to the man, so long as he keeps up.

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