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[[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys’]] is having nightmares, and then occasionally wakes before going back to sleep. Many days later she finally wakes and the fever is gone. She learns that her child was born dead as if it died a long time ago, a twisted monstrosity. When she visits with Drogo he is listless, and [[Mirri Maz Duur]] he will never change. She now realizes how little she got for all the lives she paid: the horse, her son, Drogo’s [[Bloodrider|bloodriders]]… She personally cleans up Drogo that night, and in the morning smothers him with a pillow.
 
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[[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys]] is having a fever dream about her brother [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]], and her unborn son [[Rhaego]]. In the dream Rhaego was a man grown and had the eyes and hair color of the Targaryens, but the copper skin of the Dothraki, and in the end he disappears in a burst of light. Daenerys had been asleep for weeks, recovering from her miscarriage. When she awakens, she learns of the fate of her unborn son. She summons [[Mirri Maz Duur]] and Ser [[Jorah Mormont|Jorah]], and the maegi tells Daenerys that her son was monstrous, a demon child, dead for years. When Daenerys says the child was alive in her womb, Mirri responds that death was in that tent. Ser Jorah insists that there were only shadows in the tent, but Mirri tells him that the grave casts long shadows. They lead her to Khal [[Drogo]], really a zombie now. His ''khalasar'' had left, with Ko [[Pono]] and Ko [[Jhaqo]] now ''Khal''s, leaving Daenerys only some 100 Dothraki all of them either old, sickly or children. The slave girl [[Eroeh]] was killed, and Daenerys avows she will bring vengeance upon the two new ''Khal''s. When Daenerys asks Mirri when Drogo will be himself again, she replies with an impossibility, and Daenerys knows that Drogo is lost to her. She accuses the maegi of not warning her of the price of the blood magic used on Drogo, and Mirri retorts that what the Dothraki did to her temple and her people was wrong. Daenerys has the maegi bound and dragged off. That night, she suffocates Drogo with her pillow, knowing that he was not really alive.
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In [[Daenerys Targaryen|Daenerys’]] dreams she keeps hearing “You do not want to wake the dragon, do you.” She is walking down a hall, her bare feet leaving bloody footprints. [[Drogo]] is now stroking her, waking her passion, and then enters her and then the stars are gone and is filled with great wings and filled with flame. Then she sees Ser [[Jorah Mormont|Jorah’s]] drawn and sorrowful face, and he tells her that the last dragon was [[Rhaegar Targaryen|Rhaegar]] while over a hot brazier containing red hot stone eggs. Then he is replaced by [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]] with his molten gold crown screaming “The dragon does not beg, slut,” and then “I will be crowned.” He then he painfully pinches her nipples. As she frantically runs to a distant red door that is her salvation, knowing that the darkness was there and that she dare not look back or she would be lost. She sees her son, proud and tall. Then her son is consumed by flame. Then the [[House Targaryen|ghost of kings]] are lining the hallway telling her to go faster. Then she is flying over the Dothraki Sea, and all are fleeing. She finally throws open the door to see Rhaegar, the last dragon. She opens the visor and sees her own face. She wakes to the taste of ashes, [[Jhiqui]] standing over her. She wakes to find her body hurting so much. She calls for something, but does not know what. Jhiqui says “Yes,and bolts from the tent shouting.
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She is crawling to her dragon eggs when they find her. Ser Jorah carries her to her bed and tells her to sleep and then [[Mirri Maz Duur]] gives her something in a cup. A dreamless sleep takes her.
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It is dark when she wakes again it is dark, and calls for he hand maidens and they attend to her. She is told that she has been sick for a long time. Then Mirri Maz gives her wine and as she falls asleep she asks for a dragon’s egg.
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Next time she has the pale dragon’s egg in her arms and it is warm. There is fine sheen of perspiration on her that she names dragon’s dew, and there is no fever and she feels strong. She calls for her handmaidens and asks for a bath, Mirri Maz, Ser Jorah, Drogo, and her child. They avoid answering about Drogo and her child. Since she did not get a response she knows that her child is dead, and knew he was dead from the first time she woke. Mirri Maz and Ser Jorah enter for find her over the other eggs, which are all warm; when asked, Ser Jorah does not feel the heat. Ser Jorah does not look good, and limps. He tells her that her son never lived, but it is Mirri Maz is the one to tell her that the child was monstrous, lizardly, with scales, and the skin fell off, revealing a body filled with grave worms and the stink of corruption, like he had been dead for years. She states that her son was strong when Ser Jorah brought her into the tent. Mirri Maz then tells her that death was in the tent, the dancing shadows, and the shadows touched her. She realizes that Ser Jorah had killed her child for love and loyalty for her. Daenerys then states that she thought the life of the horse would be payment enough and is told that that was a lie she told herself, and she is not sure if she had known. She realizes that the life of Drogo was paid for by the life of the horse, her son, [[Quaro]], [[Qotho]], [[Haggo]], and [[Coholla]]. She asks to see what the price bought and is not dissuaded by Ser Jorah, who has to help her stand since she is weaker than she thought.
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Outside, in the glaring sun she can see that there is little left:  a scattering of tents, a few score horses, and perhaps a 100 people: the old, the frightened and the sick. [[Jhogo]] tells her “ A [[Khal]] that cannot ride is no Khal.”[[Ko]] [[Pono]] declared himself Khal first and then Jhogo did the same, and they took the herds and slaves since there were too few of them to stop the new self-proclaimed Khals; it is the right of the strong to take from the weak. Most of the rest left during the following nights. [[Eroeh]], now [[Bloodrider]] to Jhogo, was siezed by [[Mago]], raped by him and others, and then killed. Daenerys thinks again that if she looks back she is lost. Daenerys new swears to them as the dragon’s daughter that Mago and [[Jhogo]] will die screaming; [[Irri]] warns her that Jhogo now has 20,000, but Daenerys tells them that she is daughter of [[House Targaryen]]. She asks to see Drago.
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Drogo lies listlessly, unseeing, covered in [[Bloodflies]]. She asks why he is outside and is told that he seemed to like the warmth and staring at the sun with eyes that cannot see. He will follow where he is led, eat if food is put in his mouth. Daenarys now faces Mirri Maz, who tells her that he is alive, to which Daenerys responds that this is not life for a man that had been as alive as Drogo. Then Daenerys asks Mirri Maz “When will he be as he was.” She replies “When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before.” Danearys sends the others away and then accuses the [[Maegi]] of knowing, cheating her, and murdering her child. Mirri Maz replies that the khalasar burned her temple, and now the “Stallion Who Mounts the World” will burn no cities. Daenerys tells her that she spoke for her and the Maegi tells her three had already mounted her like she was a dog takes a bitch, they burned her temple and home, and cut the heads off her neighbors. Daenerys orders her men to bind Maegi and carry her off and the Maegi smiles at her.  
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Daenerys orders Drogo brought into her tent. She baths him herself, and then fixes his hair as dark falls. She thinks of their first ride beneath the open sky, and then when they made [[Rhaego]]. She was too raw for intercourse, but [[Doreah]] had taught her other ways. When dawn breaks, she smothers Drago with a soft silk pillow.
  
 
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* The synopsis was copied from AOL member vbkorik27 previously at [http://web.archive.org/web/20080228051425/members.aol.com/vbkorik27/summary/legend.html].   
 
 
 
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Daenerys IX
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Chapter chronology (All)
Daenerys VIII
Sansa VI  ← Daenerys IX →  Tyrion IX

Daenerys X

Daenerys’ is having nightmares, and then occasionally wakes before going back to sleep. Many days later she finally wakes and the fever is gone. She learns that her child was born dead as if it died a long time ago, a twisted monstrosity. When she visits with Drogo he is listless, and Mirri Maz Duur he will never change. She now realizes how little she got for all the lives she paid: the horse, her son, Drogo’s bloodriders… She personally cleans up Drogo that night, and in the morning smothers him with a pillow.

Synopsis

In Daenerys’ dreams she keeps hearing “You do not want to wake the dragon, do you.” She is walking down a hall, her bare feet leaving bloody footprints. Drogo is now stroking her, waking her passion, and then enters her and then the stars are gone and is filled with great wings and filled with flame. Then she sees Ser Jorah’s drawn and sorrowful face, and he tells her that the last dragon was Rhaegar while over a hot brazier containing red hot stone eggs. Then he is replaced by Viserys with his molten gold crown screaming “The dragon does not beg, slut,” and then “I will be crowned.” He then he painfully pinches her nipples. As she frantically runs to a distant red door that is her salvation, knowing that the darkness was there and that she dare not look back or she would be lost. She sees her son, proud and tall. Then her son is consumed by flame. Then the ghost of kings are lining the hallway telling her to go faster. Then she is flying over the Dothraki Sea, and all are fleeing. She finally throws open the door to see Rhaegar, the last dragon. She opens the visor and sees her own face. She wakes to the taste of ashes, Jhiqui standing over her. She wakes to find her body hurting so much. She calls for something, but does not know what. Jhiqui says “Yes,” and bolts from the tent shouting.

She is crawling to her dragon eggs when they find her. Ser Jorah carries her to her bed and tells her to sleep and then Mirri Maz Duur gives her something in a cup. A dreamless sleep takes her.

It is dark when she wakes again it is dark, and calls for he hand maidens and they attend to her. She is told that she has been sick for a long time. Then Mirri Maz gives her wine and as she falls asleep she asks for a dragon’s egg.

Next time she has the pale dragon’s egg in her arms and it is warm. There is fine sheen of perspiration on her that she names dragon’s dew, and there is no fever and she feels strong. She calls for her handmaidens and asks for a bath, Mirri Maz, Ser Jorah, Drogo, and her child. They avoid answering about Drogo and her child. Since she did not get a response she knows that her child is dead, and knew he was dead from the first time she woke. Mirri Maz and Ser Jorah enter for find her over the other eggs, which are all warm; when asked, Ser Jorah does not feel the heat. Ser Jorah does not look good, and limps. He tells her that her son never lived, but it is Mirri Maz is the one to tell her that the child was monstrous, lizardly, with scales, and the skin fell off, revealing a body filled with grave worms and the stink of corruption, like he had been dead for years. She states that her son was strong when Ser Jorah brought her into the tent. Mirri Maz then tells her that death was in the tent, the dancing shadows, and the shadows touched her. She realizes that Ser Jorah had killed her child for love and loyalty for her. Daenerys then states that she thought the life of the horse would be payment enough and is told that that was a lie she told herself, and she is not sure if she had known. She realizes that the life of Drogo was paid for by the life of the horse, her son, Quaro, Qotho, Haggo, and Coholla. She asks to see what the price bought and is not dissuaded by Ser Jorah, who has to help her stand since she is weaker than she thought.

Outside, in the glaring sun she can see that there is little left: a scattering of tents, a few score horses, and perhaps a 100 people: the old, the frightened and the sick. Jhogo tells her “ A Khal that cannot ride is no Khal.”Ko Pono declared himself Khal first and then Jhogo did the same, and they took the herds and slaves since there were too few of them to stop the new self-proclaimed Khals; it is the right of the strong to take from the weak. Most of the rest left during the following nights. Eroeh, now Bloodrider to Jhogo, was siezed by Mago, raped by him and others, and then killed. Daenerys thinks again that if she looks back she is lost. Daenerys new swears to them as the dragon’s daughter that Mago and Jhogo will die screaming; Irri warns her that Jhogo now has 20,000, but Daenerys tells them that she is daughter of House Targaryen. She asks to see Drago.

Drogo lies listlessly, unseeing, covered in Bloodflies. She asks why he is outside and is told that he seemed to like the warmth and staring at the sun with eyes that cannot see. He will follow where he is led, eat if food is put in his mouth. Daenarys now faces Mirri Maz, who tells her that he is alive, to which Daenerys responds that this is not life for a man that had been as alive as Drogo. Then Daenerys asks Mirri Maz “When will he be as he was.” She replies “When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before.” Danearys sends the others away and then accuses the Maegi of knowing, cheating her, and murdering her child. Mirri Maz replies that the khalasar burned her temple, and now the “Stallion Who Mounts the World” will burn no cities. Daenerys tells her that she spoke for her and the Maegi tells her three had already mounted her like she was a dog takes a bitch, they burned her temple and home, and cut the heads off her neighbors. Daenerys orders her men to bind Maegi and carry her off and the Maegi smiles at her.

Daenerys orders Drogo brought into her tent. She baths him herself, and then fixes his hair as dark falls. She thinks of their first ride beneath the open sky, and then when they made Rhaego. She was too raw for intercourse, but Doreah had taught her other ways. When dawn breaks, she smothers Drago with a soft silk pillow.

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References and Notes