[After Daario has effortless dispatched Mereen's champion, Daenerys addresses the slaves of Meereen]
Daenerys TargaryenI am Daenerys Stormborn. Your Masters may have told you lies about me, or they may have told you nothing. It does not matter. I have nothing to say to them. I only speak to you. First, I went to Astapor. Those who were slaves in Astapor, now stand behind me, free. Next I went to Yunkai. Those who were slaves in Yunkai, now stand behind me, free. Now I have come to Meereen. I am not your enemy. Your enemy is beside you. Your enemy steals and murders your children. Your enemy has nothing for you but chains and suffering, and commands. I do not bring you commands. I bring you a choice. And I bring your enemies what they deserve.
Daenerys Targaryen
Do the Dothraki buy their slaves?
The Dothraki don't believe in money. Most of their slaves were given to them as gifts.
Daenerys Targaryen
From whom?
If you rule a city and you see the horde approaching, you have two choices: pay tribute or fight. An easy choice for most. Of course, sometimes it's not enough. Sometimes a Khal feels insulted by the number of slaves he's given. He might think the men too weak or the women too ugly. Sometimes a Khal decides his riders haven't had a good fight in months and need the practice.
[Dany becomes uncomfortable when she sees a slave getting whipped for not walking fast enough]
Daenerys Targaryen
Tell them all to stop.
You want the entire horde to stop? For how long?
Daenerys Targaryen
Until I command them otherwise.
You're learning to talk like a Queen.
Daenerys Targaryen
Not a Queen. A Khaleesi.
[throwing Doreah onto the ground as she shrieks] You send this whore to give me commands?! I should have sent you back her head!
DDoreah
[sobbing] Forgive me, Khaleesi, I did as you asked.
Daenerys Targaryen
Hush, now, it's all right. Irri, take her and leave us.
IIrri
Yes, Khaleesi. [she leads Doreah away]
Daenerys Targaryen
[to Viserys] Why did you hit her?
How many times do I have to tell you? You do not command me.
Daenerys Targaryen
I wasn't commanding you. I-I just wanted to invite you to supper.
[grabs a piece of leather] What's this?
Daenerys Targaryen
It's a gift. I had it made for you.
Dothraki rags, you're going to dress me now?
Daenerys Targaryen
Please...
[throws it at her] This stinks of manure! All of it! [throws a metal belt at her]
Daenerys Targaryen
Stop. Stop it.
You would turn me into one of them, wouldn't you? Next you'll want to braid my hair-
Daenerys Targaryen
You've no right to a braid, you've won no victories yet.
[enraged] You do not talk back to me. [he backhands her and she falls. He tackles her] You are a horse lord's slut and now you've woken the dragon- [she hits him with the belt, causing him to fall off of her and stare in shock]
Daenerys Targaryen
I am a Khaleesi of the Dothraki. I am the wife of the great Khal and I carry his son inside me. The next time you raise a hand to me, will be the last time you have hands.
KDKhal Drogo
You are no king.
[Enraged, Viserys draws his scimitar and brandishes it.]
Daenerys Targaryen
Viserys, please.
Put the sword down. They'll kill us all.
They can't kill us. They can't shed blood in their sacred city. But I can. I want what I came for. [to Daenerys, holding his scimitar to her belly] I want the crown he promised me. He bought you, but he never paid for you. Tell him I want what was bargained for, or I'm taking you back. He can keep the baby. I'll cut it out and leave it for him.
KDKhal Drogo
Anha vazhak maan rek me zala. Anha vazhak maan firikhnharen hoshora ma mahrazhi aqovi affin mori atihi mae!
Daenerys Targaryen
He says yes. You shall have a golden crown... that men shall tremble to behold.
That was all I wanted. What-what was promised.
[Drogo's Bloodriders seize Viserys's wrists, breaking his right arm and forcing him to drop the sword.]
Ahh! No! No! You cannot touch me. I am the Dragon! I am the Dragon! I want my crown! Ahh!
[The Dothraki force him to his knees as he yells in pain; Drogo unbuckles his belt of gold ornaments.]
KDKhal Drogo
Ammeni haz jolin!
[Drogo drops the gold belt into a soup-pot and watches it melt]
Daenerys Targaryen
No.
No, Dany. Dany, tell them. Make them! Dany, make them. No, you can't! Just please! Dany, please!
KDKhal Drogo
A crown for a king.
[He upends the pot and empties its contents onto Viserys head, killing him]
Daenerys Targaryen
He was no dragon. Fire cannot kill a dragon.
KDKhal Drogo
Moon of my life, Mago says you have taken his spoils, a daughter of a lamb man who was his to mount. Tell me the truth of this.
Daenerys Targaryen
Mago speaks the truth, my sun and stars. I have claimed many daughters this day so they cannot be mounted.
KDKhal Drogo
This is the way of war. These women are slaves now to do with as we please.
Daenerys Targaryen
It pleases me to keep them safe. If your riders would mount them, let them take them for wives.
QQotho
Does the horse mate with the lamb?
Daenerys Targaryen
The dragon feeds on horse and lamb alike.
MMago
You are a foreigner. You do not command me.
Daenerys Targaryen
I am Khaleesi. I do command you.
KDKhal Drogo
See how fierce she grows? That is my son inside her, the stallion that will mount the world, filling her with his fire. I will hear no more. Mago, find somewhere else to stick your cock. [Mago spits at Drogo's feet]
MMago
A Khal who takes orders from a foreign whore is no khal at all!
[Drogo's other bloodriders raise their swords at Mago]
[The bloodriders back away as Drogo stands up and drops his sword to the ground as he walks slowly towards Mago]
KDKhal Drogo
I will not have your body burned. I will not give you that honour.
[Mago raises his sword, but Drogo simply presses his chest against the edge, leaving a small wound on his chest]
KDKhal Drogo
The beetles will feed on your eyes. The worms will crawl through your lungs! The rain will fall on your rotting skin, until nothing is left of you but bones!
MMago
First you have to kill me!
KDKhal Drogo
I already have!
[Drogo ducks under the swing, slices open Mago's throat with the reverse edge of his own weapon, and then shoves his hand in the wound, tearing Mago's tongue out from its base]
[Afer Daenerys learns Mirri Maz Duur tricked her into partaking in a blood magic ritual that cost her unborn son his life and brought Drogo back as a catatonic shell]
Daenerys Targaryen
You knew what I was buying, and you knew the price!
MMMirri Maz Duur
It was wrong of them to burn my temple. It angered the Great Shepherd...
Daenerys Targaryen
This is not God's work. My child was innocent!
MMMirri Maz Duur
Innocent? He would have been the stallion who mounts the world. Now he will burn no cities, now his Khalasar will trample no nations into dust.
Daenerys Targaryen
I spoke for you. I saved you!
MMMirri Maz Duur
Saved me? Three of those riders had already raped me before you "saved" me, girl. I saw my God's house burn. There where I had healed men and women, beyond counting. In the streets, I saw piles of heads. The head of a baker, who bakes my bread. A head of a little boy that I cured of fever just three moons past. So, tell me again exactly what it was that you saved?
Daenerys Targaryen
Your life!
MMMirri Maz Duur
Why don't you take a look at your Khal? Then you will see exactly what life is worth, when all the rest has gone.
Drogo will have no use for dragon eggs in the Nightlands. Sell them. You can return to the free cities and live as a wealthy woman for all your days.
Daenerys Targaryen
They were not given to me to sell.
Khaleesi... my queen. I vow to serve you, obey you... to die for you if need be. But let him go, Khaleesi. I know what you intend, do not.
Daenerys Targaryen
I must. You don't understand.
Don't ask me to stand aside as you climb on that pyre. I won't watch you burn.
Daenerys Targaryen
Is that what you fear? [she kisses his cheek and turns to address her remaining subjects] You will be my Khalasar. I see the faces of slaves. I free you. Take off your collars, go as you wish, no one will stop you. But if you stay, it will be as brothers and sisters, as husbands and wives. [some of them leave. Mirri Mazz Duur smirks] Ser Jorah, bind this woman to the pyre. [he hesitates] You swore to obey me. [he does as she asks] I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen. Of the blood of old Valyria I am the dragon's daughter. And I swear to you, that those who would harm you will die screaming.
MMMirri Mazz Duur
You will not hear me scream!
Daenerys Targaryen
I will. But it's not your screams I want. Only your life. [she sets the pyre on fire. Mirri Mazz Duur screams as she's burnt alive. Daenerys looks at Jorah a moment and then walks into the flames]
Daenerys Targaryen
You are a gracious host, but there is no servant alive that can bring me what I want.
SKSpice King
Oh, she has a talent for drama, this one. So, my little princess, what is it you want?
Daenerys Targaryen
My birthright. The Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.
SKSpice King
I fear I'm no better than a servant in this regard. I cannot give you what I do not have.
Daenerys Targaryen
I'm not asking you for the kingdoms. I'm asking you for ships.
SKSpice King
I need to cross the Narrow Sea. I need my ships as well. I use them, you see, to bring spices from one port to another.
Daenerys Targaryen
Whatever you grant me now will be repaid three times over when I retake the Iron Throne.
SKSpice King
Retake? Did you once sit on the Iron Throne?
Daenerys Targaryen
My father sat there before he was murdered.
SKSpice King
But if you did not sit on it yourself, would it not be correct to say, "take the Iron Throne?"
Daenerys Targaryen
I didn't come here to argue grammar.
SKSpice King
Of course not. You came to take my ships. So let me explain my position, little princess. Unlike you, I do not have exalted ancestors. I make my living by trade. And I judge every trade on its merits. You ask for ships. You say I shall be repaid triple. I do not doubt your honesty or your intentions. But before you repay your debts, you must seize the Seven Kingdoms. Do you have an army?
Daenerys Targaryen
Not yet.
SKSpice King
You do not have an army. Do you have powerful allies in Westeros?
Daenerys Targaryen
There are many there that support my claim.
SKSpice King
When were you there last?
Daenerys Targaryen
I left when I was a baby.
SKSpice King
So in truth, you have no allies.
Daenerys Targaryen
The people will rise to fight for their rightful queen when I return.
SKSpice King
Ah... Forgive me, little princess, but I cannot make an investment based on wishes and dreams. Now, if you'll pardon me.
Daenerys Targaryen
Do you know lllyrio Mopatis, Magister of Pentos?
SKSpice King
Yes, we've met. A shrewd man.
Daenerys Targaryen
For my wedding, he gave me three petrified dragon eggs. He believed the world believed that the ages had turned them to stone.
SKSpice King
How many centuries has it been since dragons roamed the skies?
Daenerys Targaryen
But I dreamt that if I carried those eggs into a great fire, they would hatch. When I stepped into the fire, my own people thought I was mad. But when the fire burned out, I was unhurt. The Mother of Dragons. [pause] Do you understand? I'm no ordinary woman. My dreams come true.
SKSpice King
I admire your passion. But in business, I trust in logic, not passion. I'm sorry, little princess.
Daenerys Targaryen
I am not your little princess! I am Daenerys Stormborn of the blood of Old Valyria, and I will take what is mine! With fire and blood, I will take it!
SKSpice King
Yes, my lady. But not with my ships.
I shouldn't have left you alone with these people.
Daenerys Targaryen
These people?
They are not to be trusted.
Daenerys Targaryen
Who is to be trusted? Who are my people? The Targaryens? I only knew one: My brother, and he would have let a thousand men rape me if it would have gotten him the crown. The Dothraki? Most of them turned on me the day that Khal Drogo fell from his horse.
Your people are in Westeros.
Daenerys Targaryen
The people in Westeros don't know I'm alive!
Daenerys Targaryen
And then what? They'll pray for my return? They'll wave dragon banners and shout my name? That's what my brother believed and he's a fool.
You are not your brother. Trust me, Khaleesi.
Daenerys Targaryen
There it is: trust me. And it's you I should trust, Ser Jorah? Only you? I don't need trust any longer. I don't want it and I don't have room for it.
You are too young to be so...
Daenerys Targaryen
And you are too familiar!
Forgive me, Khaleesi. No one can survive in this world without help. No one. Let me help you, please. Tell me how.
Daenerys Targaryen
Find my dragons.
Daenerys Targaryen
Eight thousand dead babies.
The Unsullied are a means to an end.
Daenerys Targaryen
Once I own them, these men...
They're not men. Not anymore.
Daenerys Targaryen
Once I own an army of slaves, what will I be?
Do you think these slaves will have better lives serving Kraznys and men like him or serving you? You'll be fair to them. You won't mutilate them to make a point. You won't order them to murder babies. You'll see they're properly fed and sheltered. A great injustice has been done to them. Closing your eyes will not undo it.
When your brother Rhaegar led his army into battle at the Trident, men died for him because they believed in him, because they loved him, not because they'd been bought at a slaver's auction. I fought beside the last dragon on that day, your Grace. I bled beside him.
Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly...and Rhaegar died.
Daenerys Targaryen
Did you know him well, Ser Barristan?
I did, your Grace. The finest man I ever met.
Daenerys Targaryen
I wish I had known him...but he was not the last dragon.
Now comes the noble Razdal mo Eraz of that ancient and honorable house, master of men and speaker to savages, to offer terms of peace. Noble lord, you are in the presence of Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons.
Daenerys Targaryen
You may approach. Sit.
Will the noble lord take refreshment? [Razdahl nods and takes an offered cup of wine]
RRazdal
Ancient and glorious is Yunkai. Our empire was old before dragons stirred in old Valyria. Many an army has broken against our walls. You shall find no easy conquest here, Khaleesi.
Daenerys Targaryen
Good. My Unsullied need practice. I was told to blood them early.
RRazdal
If blood is your desire, blood shall flow. But why? 'Tis true you have committed savageries in Astapor. But the Yunkai are a forgiving and generous people. The Wise Masters of Yunkai have sent a gift for the silver queen. [slaves bring in two chests of gold] There is far more than this awaiting you on the deck of your ship.
Daenerys Targaryen
My ship?
RRazdal
Yes, khaleesi. As I said, we are a generous people. You shall have as many ships as you require.
Daenerys Targaryen
And what do you ask in return?
RRazdal
All we ask is that you make use of these ships. Sail them back to Westeros where you belong and leave us to conduct our affairs in peace.
Daenerys Targaryen
I have a gift for you as well. Your life.
Daenerys Targaryen
And the lives of your Wise Masters. But I also want something in return. You will release every slave in Yunkai. Every man, woman, and child shall be given as much food, clothing, and property as they can carry as payment for their years of servitude. Reject this gift, and I shall show you no mercy.
RRazdal
You are mad. We are not Astapor or Qarth. We are Yunkai and we have powerful friends. Friends who would take great pleasure in destroying you. Those who survive, we shall enslave once more. Perhaps we'll make a slave of you as well. [One of Daenerys' dragons screeches] You swore me safe conduct.
Daenerys Targaryen
I did, but my dragons made no promises. And you threatened their mother.
RRazdal
[to his slaves] Take the gold.
[Daenerys' dragons screech and the slaves back away]
Daenerys Targaryen
My gold. You gave it to me, remember? And I shall put it to good use. You'd be wise to do the same with my gift to you. Now get out. [Razdal leaves]
The Yunkish are a proud people. They will not bend.
Daenerys Targaryen
And what happens to things that don't bend?
Your Grace, allow me to present the Captains of the Second Sons: Mero of Braavos, Prendahl Na Ghezn, and...
DNDaario Naharis
Daario Naharis.
MMero
You're the mother of Dragons? I swear I fucked you once, in a pleasure house in Lys.
MMero
Why? I didn't mind hers. She licked my ass like she was born to do it. [grins at her, then gestures to Missandei] You, slave girl. Bring wine.
Daenerys Targaryen
We have no slaves here.
MMero
You'll all be slaves after the battle, unless I save you. Take your clothes off, and come and sit on Mero's lap, and I may give you my Second Sons.
Daenerys Targaryen
Give me your Second Sons, and I may not have you gelded. Ser Barristan, how many men fight for the Second Sons?
Under two thousand, Your Grace.
Daenerys Targaryen
We have more, don't we?
Daenerys Targaryen
I'm only a young girl, new to the ways of war, but perhaps a seasoned Captain like yourself can explain to me how you propose to defeat us?
DNDaario Naharis
I hope the old man is better with a sword than he is with a lie. You have eight thousand Unsullied.
Daenerys Targaryen
You're very young, to be a Captain.
PNPrendahl Na Ghezn
He isn't a Captain; he's a lieutenant.
Daenerys Targaryen
Even if your numbers are right, you must admit the odds don't favor your side.
MMero
The Second Sons have faced worse odds and won.
The Second Sons have faced worse odds and run.
Daenerys Targaryen
Or, you could fight for me.
MMero
We've taken the slavers' gold. We fight for Yunkai.
Daenerys Targaryen
I would pay you as much, and more.
PNPrendahl Na Ghezn
Our contract is our bond. If we break our bond, no one will hire the Second Sons again.
Daenerys Targaryen
Ride with me, and you'll never need another contract. You'll have gold and castles and lordships of your choosing, when I take back the Seven Kingdoms.
DNDaario Naharis
You have no ships, you have no siege weapons. You have no cavalry.
Daenerys Targaryen
A fortnight ago, I had no army. A year ago, I had no dragons. You have two days to decide.
MMerot
Show me your cunt. I want to see if it's worth fighting for.
[in Valyrian] My Queen, shall I slice out his tongue for you?
Daenerys Targaryen
[smiles, replies in Valyrian] These men are our guests. [to Mero] You seem to be enjoying my wine. Perhaps you'd like a flagon to help you think it over?
MMero
Only a flagon? And what are my brothers-in-arms to drink?
Daenerys Targaryen
A barrel, then?
MMero
Good! The Titan's Bastard does not drink alone. In the Second Sons, we share everything. Maybe after the battle, we'll all share you. I'll come looking for you after this is over.
Daenerys Targaryen
Ser Barristan, if it comes to battle, kill that one first.
[Dany sees that the Meereenese have used a crucified slave girl as a road-marker]
There's one on every mile-marker between here and Meereen.
Daenerys Targaryen
How many miles are there between here and Meereen?
One hundred and sixty-three, Your Grace.
I'll tell our men to ride ahead and bury them. You don't need to see this.
Daenerys Targaryen
You will do no such thing. I will see each and every one of their faces. Remove her collar, before you bury her.
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