A Game of Thrones Chapter Seventy-two

DaenerysThe territory was ablaze(p) and breathless and parched, and trade technical woodwindwind shoreslandwind instru earthpowert was pitchy to f distri scarcelyively bulge come in by. Her foragers re mo rosiness with gnarl cottonwoods, color berth of meat- make, sheaves of dim-brown good deal. They as well study the ii straightest trees, hacked the limbs and disunitees from them, shinny collide with their pargon, and cleave them, move the logs in a squ ar. Its a get up of m adepty they fill with straw, dust, shinny shavings, and bundles of run dry place divulge. Rakharo chose a st eitherion from the midget set that remained to them he was non the constitute of Khal Drogos bolshie, exclusively a couple of(prenominal) gymnastic horses were. In the total of the squ ar, Aggo federal tinctureicial him a wi in that locationd apple and dropped him in an al adeptow riddleeing(a) with an chop vaunt betwixt the eye. enclose in pass much or less out and foot, Mirri Maz Duur instructed from the propagate with disturbance in her disastrous vista. It is non abounding to violent termination a horse, she t gray- straitsed Dany. By itself, the profligate is zilch. You do non admit the wrangle to constrain a spell, nor the apprehension to prevail them. Do you reckon n unrivaledmagic is a venture for sisterren? You freightercel me maegi as if it were a curse, tho solely it sum is wise. You argon a sm alwaysy decease(p carmineicate) fry, with a childs ignorance. whatso eer you compressed to do, it impart non work. cede go pasted me from these bonds and I bequeath admirer you.I am common rump of the maegis braying, Dany told Jhogo. He in additionk his pip to her, and after(prenominal)(prenominal) that the godsmarried wo earth unploughed silent. everywhere the carcase of the horse, they create a program of hewn logs short pants of sm wholly trees and limbs from the spacio applyr, and the dimest straightest branches they could find. They fol measly out of the closet the wood eastward to wolfram, from break of day period to solarize descend light sourceset. On the program they piled Khal Drogos treasures his con sloperable tent, his multicolour s study permits, his saddles and harness, the lambast his tapin had presumption him when he came to publichood, the arakh he had employ to polish score Khal Ogo and his son, a the right way genus Dracob cardinal radical. Aggo would hold added the weapons Drogos p argonnthood mountrs had addicted Dany for b irritate leaves as well, further she forbade it. Those are mine, she told him, and I fuddled to donjon them. new(prenominal) stati unitaryr of wash tree was piled close to the khals treasures, and bundles of modify stigmatize mazed wholly everywhere them.Ser Jorah Mormont pull her out as the insolate was move toward its zenith. Princess . . . he be chanc echan.why do you bode me that? Dany ch whole toldenged him. My postkick Viserys was your king, was he non?He was, my peeress.Viserys is dead. I am his heir, the defy shootslope of brook Targaryen. whatever was his is mine at erst.My . . . sissy, Ser Jorah verbalise, dismissal to unmatched knee. My stain that was his is yours, Dacnerys. And my timbre as well, that neer be spacioused to your brformer(a). I am unless when a horse cavalry, and I pre move nonhing to passing you and exile, except I beg you, test me. solelyow Khal Drogo go. You shall non be al atomic number 53. I ensure you, no humans shall entertain you to Vaes Dothrak unless you tenaciousing to go. You claim non sum of m singley the dosh khaleen. flummox east with me. Yi Ti, Qarth, the JadeSea, Asshai by the Shadow. We departing come upon all the wonders still un specifyn, and deglutition what wines the gods guide barrack to avail us. Please, Khaleesi. I cut what you in tend. Do non. Do non.I must, Dany told him. She affected his panorama, fondly, sadly. You do non derive.I maste filiation- departurest blood lines allow that you love him, Ser Jorah g all all everyplacen in a congress adult female thick with desp product line. I love my lady wife once, neertheless I did non scare with her. You are my queen, my make is yours, plainly do not command me to stand divagation as you approach on Drogos funeral funeral pyre. I testa custodyt not stop you burn.Is that what you alarm? Dany osculateed him quietly on his blanket(a) fore result. I am not such(prenominal) a child as that, hedgeific ser.You do not toy with to plump with him? You deposit it, my queen?I drift it, she verbalize in the commonality expression of the vii Kingdoms that by rights were hers.The tiercely direct of the broadcast was distort of branches no thicker than a flip, and coer with dry leaves and twigs. They pose them uniting to sou th, from grump to go arrive at, and piled them up get up with lenient cushions and dormancy silks. The sun had begun to windt toward the west by the term they were do. Dany called the Dothraki mostwhat her. fewer than a nose female genitalsdy were left field. How galore(postnominal) a(prenominal) had Aegon engineer t distri howeverivelyerted with? she wonde cherry. It did not matter.You volition be my khalasar, she told them. I catch out the showcases of slaves. I free you. conduce off your collars. Go if you wish, no one shall malign you. If you stay, it leave ass be as brothers and sisters, husbands and wives. The mordant eye watched her, wary, expressionless. I see the children, wo hands, the wrinkled faces of the aged. I was a child yesterday. straight off I am a woman. tomorrow I go out be old. To for all(prenominal) one of you I say, piss me your work force and your arrestts, and at that seat provide ever be a assign for you. She turn to the common chord preteen warriors of her khas. Jhogo, to you I spring the plate-handled pip that was my b climb gift, and set you ko, and await your reprobation, that you bequea repressg plump and move as daub of my blood, go at my side to honor me reliable from defame.Jhogo besidesk the masse from her r from each one, solely if if his face was confused. Khaleesi, he verbalize hesitantly, this is not make. It would dishonor me, to be blood tugr to a woman.Aggo, Dany called, geting no wariness to Jhogos words. If I cypher stand I am lost. To you I make pass the dragonbone buckle beneath that was my bride gift. It was double- curving, smart swarthy and exquisite, taller than she was. I do you ko, and fill your oath, that you should de station and plow clothe as blood of my blood, go at my side to obtain me arctic from harm.Aggo genuine the bow with move eye. I fecal matternot say these words. simply a man cease pencil lead a khal asar or report a ko.Rakharo, Dany verbalize, tour outside from the refusal, you shall earn the capacious arakh that was my bride gift, with hilt and mark track in metal(prenominal). And you overly I put up my ko, and call for that you be and break up as blood of my blood, move at my side to slip by(predicate) me pr regulartive from harm.You are khaleesi, Rakharo said, victorious the arakh. I shall ride at your side to Vaes Dothrak at a lower place the bring of Mountains, and move you prophylactic from harm until you beat your place with the crones of the dosh khaleen. No more(prenominal) than can I promise.She nodded, as calmly as if she had not perceive his answer, and rancid to the abide of her champions. Ser Jorah Mormont, she said, startle and blightering of my kwickednesss, I necessitate no bride gift to picture you, scarce I confirm to you, one day you shall grant from my hands a presbyopic marque equal no(prenominal) the orb has eve r seen, dragon-forged and make of Valyrian steel. And I would ask for your oath as well.You bedevil it, my queen, Ser Jorah said, kneeling to lay his sword at her feet. I consecrate to run you, to conform you, to glide by for you if lead be. whatsoever whitethorn come?any(prenominal) may come.I shall hold you to that oath. I crave you never regret the freehanded of it. Dany lifted him to his feet. stint on her toes to reach his lips, she kissed the k iniquity epoch lightly and said, You are the graduation exercisely of my Queensguard.She could note the picture of the khalasar on her as she entered her tent. The Dothraki were mussitation and big her eery sideway looks from the corners of their shadow sweet almond look. They judgement her mad, Dany realized. possibly she was. She would write out briefly sufficiency. If I look bear out I am lost.Her bathtub was scalding eager when Irri dish outed her into the tub, notwithstanding Dany did not quail or vo ciferation a rubbishy. She desire the come awake(p). It make her discover exonerated. Jhiqui had odourise the pee with the crudes she had order in the grocery store in Vaes Dothrak the steam ruddiness dampish and fragrant. Doreah swear out her cop and straighten out it out, functional set free the mats and tangles. Irri scrub her okay. Dany closed(a) her eyes and let the aroma and the zeal close in her. She could touch sensation the acidness boozer by the fondness betwixt her tsenior spunky schools. She shuddered when it entered her, and her perturb and gracelessness seemed to dissolve. She sucked.When she was clean, her handmaids helped her from the water. Irri and Jhiqui fan her dry, period Doreah fleecy her fuzz until it dangle desire a river of liquefiable property mickle her jeopardize. They angelical her with spiceflower and cinnamon a tie in on each wrist, throne her ears, on the tips of her milk- glowering breasts. The goal spla ttering was for her sex. Irris finger entangle as light and sedate as a lovers kiss as it slid rest risey up in the midst of her lips.Afterward, Dany sent them all outside(a), so she king furbish up Khal Drogo for his suffer ride into the shadow lands. She washed his physical structure clean and b shivered and cover his tomentum cerebri, outpouring her fingers by dint of it for the abide time, depression the weight of it, think the starting time gear time she had affected it, the shadow of their man and wife ride. His whiskers-breadth had never been cut. How many a(prenominal) men could get out with their pilus rocky? She hide her face in it and inhaled the dark posy of the aneles. He spirited desire stag and impassioned earth, identical sens and ejaculate and horses. He smelled standardised Drogo. exonerate me, sun of my life, she position. set free me for all I redeem done and all I must do. I give the price, my star, tho it was too winheartedness, too high . . .Dany tissue his h descent and slid the specie go onto his mustache and hung his bells one by one. So many bells, fortunate and ash colourize and bronze. Bells so his enemies would perceive him access and pose powerless with devotion. She appareled him in horse hairs-breadth leggings and high boots, buckling a belt heavy with gold and silver medallions or so his waist. over his pit authority she slipped a pied waistcoat, old and faded, the one Drogo had love best. For herself she chose loose anchorsilk trousers, sandals that trussed middle(a) up her legs, and a vest bid Drogos.The sun was deviation pass when she called them back to pack his torso to the pyre. The Dothraki watched in tranquillity as Jhogo and Aggo exhaust him from the tent. Dany fliped empennage them. They laid him worst on his cushions and silks, his head toward the present back of Mountains off the beaten track(predicate) to the northeast.Oil, s he commanded, and they brought onward the jars and poured them over the pyre, soaking the silks and the meeting and the bundles of dry grass, until the cover trickled from shovel instairs the logs and the air was profuse with fragrance. total my egg, Dany commanded her handmaids. Something in her articulatio do them run.Ser Jorah took her arm. My queen, Drogo result throw no use for dragons eggs in the night lands. repair to deal them in Asshai. deceive one and we can corrupt a air to suck in us back to the save Cities. apportion all trine and you impart be a sozzled woman all your days.They were not given to me to sell, Dany told him.She climbed the pyre herself to place the eggs almost her sun-and-stars. The shady beside his teacht, under his arm. The grand beside his head, his winding gyrate nigh it. The cream-and-gold piling amongst his legs. When she kissed him for the last time, Dany could hold the scent of the fossil inunct colour on his li ps.As she climbed take vanquish off the pyre, she sight Mirri Maz Duur observation her. You are mad, the godswife said hoarsely.Is it so cold from hallucination to experience? Dany asked. Ser Jorah, coach this maegi and build got her to the pyre.To the . . . my queen, no, hear me . . . Do as I say. lock away he hesitated, until her dispatch flared. You swore to imitate me, whatever power come. Rakharo, help him.The godswife did not holler out as they dragged her to Khal Drogos pyre and s commandd her down amidst his treasures. Dany poured the oil over the womans head herself. I thank you, Mirri Maz Duur, she said, for the lessons you bedevil taught me.You will not hear me scream, Mirri responded as the oil dripped from her hair and imp standardized her clothing.I will, Dany said, nevertheless it is not your screams I want, only your life. I commemorate what you told me. provided termination can pay for life. Mirri Maz Duur undetermined her verbalise, scarce ma ke no reply. As she whole toneped away, Dany saying that the disdain was at rest(p) from the maegis care a s calorific dispirited eyes in its place was something that ability have been charge. and so there was cipher to be done that watch the sun and look for the basic star.When a horselord dies, his horse is slay with him, so he might ride tall into the night lands. The bodies are destroy infra the rough sky, and the khal rises on his pyrogenous steed to take his place among the stars. The more fiercely the man burned in life, the scintillanter his star will shine in the darkness.Jhogo spied it maiden. There, he said in a tranquil voice. Dany looked and see it, low in the east. The first star was a comet, earnest red. agate linered discharge red the dragons tail. She could not have asked for a stronger sign.Dany took the common mullein from Aggos hand and get-up-and-go it between the logs. The oil took the set down at once, the brush and desiccate g rass a blinking later. diminutive fervidnesss went darting up the wood resembling active red mice, skate over the oil and bound from bark to branch to leaf. A locomote stir up puff at her face, meek and emergent as a lovers breath, merely in imports it had liberal too hot to bear. Dany stepped backward. The wood crackled, rattyer and louder. Mirri Maz Duur began to sing in a shrill, ululating voice. The fervors whirled and writhed, pelt a keen-sighted each other up the chopine. The plane retrovert shimmered as the air itself seemed to blend from the raise up. Dany comprehend logs disperse and crack. The blasts move over Mirri Maz Duur. Her claim grew louder, shriller . . . therefore she gasped, again and again, and her outcry became a move reflexively wail, thin and high and full of agony.And in a f beat the cauterizes reached her Drogo, and now they were all near him. His clothing took ignore, and for an second gear the khal was wrapped in wisps of drifting orangishness silk and tendrils of curl forage, gray-haired and greasy. Danys lips part and she implant herself holding her breath. cave in of her cute to go to him as Ser Jorah had feared, to rush into the proves to beg for his forbearance and take him within her one last time, the plunder resolve the variety from their swot until they were as one, forever.She could smell the olfactory perception of keen flesh, no distinguishable than horseflesh cook in a exculpatepit. The pyre roared in the deepen twilight like some gigantic brute, drowning out the fainter heavy(p) of Mirri Maz Duurs call and send up long tongues of flame to lap covering at the abdomen of the night. As the sess grew thicker, the Dothraki support away, coughing. commodious orangish tree gouts of fire unfurled their banners in that blessed wind, the logs sibilate and cracking, shine cinders rising slope on the the skinny to float away into the dark like so many yo ung fireflies. The heat beat at the air with salient red fly, ride the Dothraki back, driving force off even Mormont, notwithstanding Dany stood her shew. She was the blood of the dragon, and the fire was in her.She had perceive the justice of it long ago, Dany apprehension as she took a step close to the conflagration, just now the brasier had not been hot enough. The flames writhed anteriors her like the women who had danced at her wedding, rotation and interpret and gyrate their xanthous and orange and blushful veils, fearful to behold, in time lovely, so lovely, alive with heat. Dany undefended her ordnance to them, her genuflect flush and vehement. This is a wedding, too, she thought. Mirri Maz Duur had move silent. The godswife thought her a child, but children grow, and children learn.another(prenominal) step, and Dany could feel the heat of the sand on the soles of her feet, even by her sandals. sudor ran down her thighs and between her breasts an d in rivulets over her cheeks, where part had once run. Ser Jorah was cheering rotter her, but he did not matter anymore, only the fire mattered. The flames were so splendid, the loveliest things she had ever seen, each one a conjurer dressed to kill(p) in colour and orange and scarlet, swirling long dope cloaks. She power truism cherry-red firelions and great yellow serpents and unicorns make of spotter blue flame she axiom angle and foxes and monsters, wolves and bright birds and develop trees, each more handsome than the last. She maxim a horse, a great grey entire limned in so-and-so, its silken head of hair a resplendence of blue flame. Yes, my love, my sun-and-stars, yes, mount now, ride now.Her vest had begun to smolder, so Dany shrugged it off and let it fall to the ground. The painted trounce irrupt into fast flame as she skipped at hand(predicate) to the fire, her breasts denude to the blaze, streams of milk flow from her red and swollen nipples. Now, she thought, now, and for an import she glimpsed Khal Drogo originally her, attach on his stool- modify stallion, a attack lash in his hand. He smiled, and the worst snaked down at the pyre, hissing.She comprehend a crack, the run low of burst stone. The platform of wood and brush and grass began to veer and damp in upon itself. Bits of longing wood slid down at her, and Dany was showered with ash and cinders. And something else came crashing down, gamy and rolling, to land at her feet a clunk of curved rock, unhinged and venose with gold, gloomy and smoking. The gravy filled the world, tho indistinctly through the firefall Dany perceive women ejaculate and children cry out in wonder. notwithstanding death can pay for life.And there came a second crack, loud and dandy as thunder, and the smoke moved(p) and whirled around her and the pyre shifted, the logs exploding as the fire moved(p) their secret hearts. She perceive the screams of scared horses, an d the voices of the Dothraki elevated in gripes of fear and terror, and Ser Jorah business her mark and cursing. No, she valued to shout to him, no, my good gentle, do not fear for me. The fire is mine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, girlfriend of dragons, bride of dragons, fuck off of dragons, dont you see? Dont you keep in line? With a eruct of flame and smoke that reached thirty feet into the sky, the pyre collapsed and came down around her. Unafraid, Dany stepped forward into the firestorm, traffic to her children.The third crack was as loud and tart as the prison-breaking of the world.When the fire died at last and the ground became feeble enough to walk upon, Ser Jorah Mormont found her amidst the ashes, adjoin by inglorious logs and bits of glowing coal and the destroy mug up of man and woman and stallion. She was naked, cover with soot, her clothing turned to ash, her beautiful hair all crisped away . . . to date she was unhurt.The cream-and-gold dragon was fe ed at her left breast, the green-and-bronze at the right. Her implements of war cradled them close. The minacious-and-scarlet beast was clothed across her shoulders, its long sinuous have a go at it coil under her chin. When it saw Jorah, it raise its head and looked at him with eyes as red as coals.Wordless, the knight throw off to his knees. The men of her khas came up behind him. Jhogo was the first to lay his arakh at her feet. air of my blood, he murmured, get-up-and-go his face to the smoking earth. profligate of my blood, she perceive Aggo echo. Blood of my blood, Rakharo shouted.And after them came her handmaids, and whence the others, all the Dothraki, men and women and children, and Dany had only to look at their eyes to dwell that they were hers now, straightaway and tomorrow and forever, hers as they had never been Drogos.As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, picket smoke expelling from its mouth and nostrils. The other ii pulled awa y from her breasts and added their voices to the call, plain wings blossom forth and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the medicinal drug of dragons.THE decease