Editing A Clash of Kings-Chapter 40 (section)

==Synopsis==
[[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] relates to [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] how the [[Pureborn]] have denied her, despite all the customary bribes and traditional proceedings she followed. Daenerys's hope of obtaining ships and men from the Pureborn was in vain, and now she has to move on. The Pureborn are interested only in her [[dragon]]s, not in her cause. Daenerys recalls all of the gifts she had been given by supplicants and admirers; she had sold all of the treasures with the exception of the [[Tourmaline Brotherhood]]'s gift, a crown in the shape of a three-headed dragon. The funds from the sold gifts were then wasted on the Pureborn.

Daenerys again beseeches Xaro for ships, but the merchant prince tells her he has no warships. He asks her again to marry him, and she again refuses. Daenerys considers going to the [[warlocks]] for aid, and again Xaro warns her not to.

As they move through the marketplace, Daenerys witnesses a [[firemage]] make a ladder of fire and climb it into the sky, as [[cutpurse]]s move through the astonished crowd. Xaro declares the feat a fine trick, but [[Quaithe]] appears and tells them it was no trick. The [[shadowbinder]] tells Daenerys that half a year ago, the man could scarcely make even a small fire appear, but his power has grown now, and all because of Daenerys, the Mother of Dragons. Quaithe warns, "You must leave this city soon…or you will never be permitted to leave it at all." Daenerys realizes that Quaithe wants her to go to [[Asshai]], and when she asks why, the shadowbinder tells her it is there she will find truth. Her [[bloodrider]]s warn her not to trust the Asshai'i shadowbinder, however, and Xaro concurs.

Later, Ser [[Jorah Mormont]] tells Daenerys she will find no help in Qarth. He explains why Xaro wants to marry her: During a Qartheen wedding ceremony, the bride and groom each ask one thing from each other that the other cannot refuse. Jorah is convinced that Xaro plans to obtain one of Daenerys's dragons in this way. He tells her she should go east, but not to Asshai. When Daenerys suggests returning west to [[Illyrio Mopatis|Illyrio]], Jorah warns her that the magister cares only for himself and would provide no help. Daenerys believes he will give her the ships and soldiers to retake [[Westeros]], but Jorah states, "Nothing knits a broken realm together so quick as an invading army on its soil."

Jorah reminds Daenerys that [[wineseller|a man]] was sent to kill her when [[Robert I Baratheon]] heard that she was pregnant, and he fears what might happen when word spreads of her dragons. Daenerys wonders why the [[red comet]] led her to Qarth if not to obtain ships and an army, and Jorah implores her to go to [[Pyat Pree]] for help.