Daenerys’s eyes flickered with a sudden interest. "Captain," she asked, "how long is the voyage from Qarth to King's Landing?"
The sea merchant, thinking she was planning her return, stroke...
2025-09-08 09:04:24 +0000 UTC View PostDaenerys had expected Xaro Xhoan Daxos, who so loudly proclaimed his admiration for her, to offer to pave her way through the gilded corridors of Qartheen power. He did not. He was happy to be her ...
2025-09-08 09:03:25 +0000 UTC View PostXaro Xhoan Daxos was a man of his word. The palace he provided was a wonder, a place of sprawling gardens, wide marble baths, and a towering crystal observatory that touched the sky. It was larger ...
2025-09-08 08:59:45 +0000 UTC View Post"I have been told," Daenerys said, her voice careful, "that only those who keep the Old Gods of the North can be skinchangers. Does Asshai have weirwood trees?"
"Daenerys," Quaithe asked, her...
2025-09-08 08:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostAggo rode without sparing his horses. Three days later, he reached the first villages of Qarth. Before Daenerys had even broken camp, a caravan of a hundred camels laden with supplies was already m...
2025-09-08 08:57:09 +0000 UTC View PostTo go or not to go. It seemed an impossible choice, a future hanging on a single word. But Daenerys knew, with a cold certainty, that there was no choice at all.
"Your Grace," Ser Jorah began...
2025-09-08 08:56:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe third person was a woman, cloaked and silent. She wore a mask of red lacquered wood that concealed her entire face, leaving only the faintest impression of the features beneath. When she spoke,...
2025-09-08 08:55:07 +0000 UTC View PostAfter another complaint from Daenerys about the rebelliousness of her white and green dragons, Jorah offered some practical advice. "You cannot be a mother to all three in the same way, Your Grace....
2025-09-08 08:54:20 +0000 UTC View PostIn the evening, as the blistering heat of the day began to fade, the Dothraki resumed their work, clearing the ash from the pit where the Valyrian rider had been cremated. At first, there was nothi...
2025-09-08 08:53:18 +0000 UTC View PostThis time, the journey was different. Their purpose was clear, and they were not burdened by the old and the weak. Daenerys took the lead, her silver filly galloping happily across the red sand, ki...
2025-09-08 08:52:11 +0000 UTC View PostAfter five days of relative peace, the scouting parties returned. Aggo, though tired and caked in red dust, was ecstatic.
"Khaleesi," he reported, "I rode west for half a day. There are mount...
2025-09-08 08:50:52 +0000 UTC View PostDaenerys looked at the broken man before her and felt a strange, detached pity. Jorah Mormont’s story was a tragedy, yes, but she was no stranger to tragedy. Her own life, the life of the girl wh...
2025-09-08 07:46:39 +0000 UTC View Post"Freeriders are sellswords, nothing more," Jorah explained, his voice a low rumble. "Men with a horse and some skill with a blade. Knights are another matter entirely." He seemed to settle into the...
2025-09-08 07:44:22 +0000 UTC View PostJorah should be ashamed, Daenerys thought. In his whole story, he had not once spoken his first wife's name. It was as if she had been a ghost in his life even before she was a ghost in the ground....
2025-09-08 07:40:55 +0000 UTC View Post"And how do you think I should choose?" Daenerys asked, turning the question back on him. She held the black dragon in her arms, feeling its warmth against her skin. With the only three dragons in ...
2025-09-08 07:39:41 +0000 UTC View PostAt dawn the next day, after Daenerys had walked the length and breadth of White Cloud City, she began to bitterly regret having slaughtered all the sheep. The resources here were richer than she co...
2025-09-08 07:38:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dothraki loved to say, "everyone knows." It was not a statement of fact, but an invocation of ancient, hard-won tradition. And Dany had learned that their traditions, born from millennia of sur...
2025-09-08 07:37:06 +0000 UTC View PostDaenerys’s bond with her dragons was a strange and unpredictable magic. The original Daenerys, the girl whose life she now lived, had been more a vessel for this power than its master. She had lo...
2025-09-08 07:36:39 +0000 UTC View PostDaenerys had misunderstood. Old Watson, in his final moments, had not burdened her with a lecher's handbook. He had given her a key.
Later that night, unable to contain her curiosity, she had...
2025-09-08 07:34:14 +0000 UTC View PostJorah was right, and the cold logic of his words was undeniable. To follow Dany’s plan, the strong would suffer immensely to prolong the lives of the weak. Their rest time would be cut in half, t...
2025-09-08 07:32:52 +0000 UTC View Post"He was not a pure horseman, you see," old Avanti continued, his voice a dry rasp. "Blue-Eyed Haggo had the strength of any great Khal, but he lacked their courage. He was tainted by his father's b...
2025-09-08 07:30:16 +0000 UTC View PostHer dragons, when they had first been born, were like nothing she had ever imagined. They were impossibly fragile, like malnourished kittens, seemingly all neck, tail, and wings with no torso to sp...
2025-09-08 07:29:11 +0000 UTC View PostHarry and Ron stared at the unlocked door, their minds still struggling to process the sheer, casual efficiency with which Hermione had just broken through three legendary magical trials.
“...
2025-09-07 08:03:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe Mirror of Erised.
The name floated up from the depths of her past life's memory. Hermione stared at the magnificent, ornate mirror, a silent sentinel in the dusty, forgotten chamber. She ...
2025-09-05 17:46:27 +0000 UTC View PostA leader cannot show doubt. A leader must be a rock of confidence for her people. It was a lesson Daenerys had learned not in a throne room, but in an operating theater: a surgeon must never, ever ...
2025-09-05 11:49:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dothraki respected strength and despised weakness. Life was cheap, whether it was their enemy’s or their own. With no other entertainment, fighting was their pastime, and they would draw a bl...
2025-09-05 11:49:22 +0000 UTC View PostDaenerys stared at the blank, uncomprehending faces of her new bloodriders. The Dothraki, it seemed, were baffled by any number greater than ten, and completely lost when faced with a "complicated"...
2025-09-05 11:43:30 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the last of the ash had cooled and the sun was high in the sky, Daenerys gathered her people. She had been washed clean, and now she sat astride her silver filly, a dragonling cradled in her a...
2025-09-05 11:40:53 +0000 UTC View Post"Aaaaiiiiieeeeeeeee!"
The Lhazareen priestess wailed in the heart of the flames, her voice a high, piercing shriek of pure agony. She was not, in the end, as strong as she had pretended to be...
2025-09-05 11:35:49 +0000 UTC View PostAs the last light of the sun vanished and the sky bruised to a deep purple, Daenerys turned to Aggo. "Take Odo's men into custody. Give the goat-slaves what food we can spare and let them go."
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