Chapter 14: The Dragon Maiden Blind Date
On the other side of the Narrow Sea, on the continent of Pantos, the silver-haired Daenerys is looking at the sea with fascination, fantasizing about Dragonstone, where she was born but has never seen it, about King's Landing, where his brother often talks about it, and their home, the Red Keep.
Suddenly, she suddenly heard someone call her name,
"Ah, isn't this a little princess who wants to be a bride?" A young man with the same hair color as her stood in front of him. Holding a piece of clothing in both hands.
"Look, this is the wedding gift that Governor Illyrio gave you, touch it and see how smooth it is."
Daenerys touched her brother's hand, a silver-gray silk garment. The color matches her hair color perfectly. Brought from the far east, silk garments were worth more than gold per gram. The only downside is that it's too thin and too transparent.
It is said that in the East, highly skilled weavers were able to weave thinner silk fabrics, and some merchants could still see black moles on their chests even when they wore five-layer silk clothes. Although the dress is not so exaggerated, it is also very transparent, and although Daenerys did not speak, she did not want to wear it like a prostitute.
"Why are you still hunched over like this?"
Perhaps seeing that Daenerys didn't want to wear it, Viserys handed the dress to the maid, and gently but without hesitation, pulled off her sister's skirt. Daenerys' delicate body was revealed.
"Well, let them see, you have a real woman's body."
Viserys slowly touched his sister's body, pinching the indescribable part of her head, pinching it fiercely, and her tone was unusually gentle.
"I want you to show your best side today, can you do it for me?"
Without waiting for Daenerys to answer, Viserys added.
"You don't want to wake up the sleeping dragon in me, do you?"
"yes, yes." Feel the pain in my chest. Daenerys timidly replied that her brother often referred to himself as a dragon, calling his anger the awakening of the dragon in his body. Daenerys knew her brother's tyrannical character, and she had no choice but to give in when she couldn't resist.
Viserys, who had persuaded his sister with his "words", turned and left the room, he was not in the mood to coax the little girl anymore, he had more important things to do.
And when he was about to leave the room, he couldn't suppress the joy in his heart. Loudly announcing to his sister.
"When historians record the beginning of my legendary life, they will say that the wheel of history begins to turn today."
Daenerys slowly walked into the bathtub full of boiling water, ignoring the maid's reminder that the water was still too hot. She liked this heat, this flame-like heat seemed to cleanse the filth and uncleanness, and she sometimes wondered if this could be the true dragon blood that her brother always talked about. Because only the people of the Targaryen family with true dragon blood will not be afraid of the heat of dragon flame. to tame the dragon. But she didn't dare, she was afraid that her brother would be jealous and find a way to torture her. Beat her.
Outside the Governor's Palace in Pantos, Viserys and Governor Illyrio had been waiting for almost an hour, and Daenerys had also freshened up and stood not far behind them.
"Where are they now?"
Viserys inherited the tyranny of his father, the Mad King, and his temper and patience were not very good, not to mention that he was so proud that it was beyond the limits of his patience to let him wait for a wild man for so long.
"The Dothraki are not known for their punctuality." Governor Illyrio is very calm, he was a mercenary when he was young, and a mercenary with an impatient temperament can't live to his age, not to mention that he fought to the position of governor under this 10,000 people with his own strength, patience is the most lacking thing for people like them.
The Dothraki are nomadic people, not uncivilized savages, so their leaders generally have peasant cunning, they are often late to meet others, if the meeting people are angry and have a conflict with them, then they have an excuse to sack the city, if the meeting person chooses to swallow his anger, in the negotiation of the event, it will also weaken the momentum, no matter what, the Dothraki are worthy of the profit, over time, they have developed the habit of the Dothraki being late, after all, the big man, always have to appear last.
As he was thinking, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance, and the four Dothraki rode like this, swaggering over, Drogokao (the leader of the Dothraki tribe) and three of his blood allies.
Illyrio immediately had a smile on his face, opened his hands, and greeted Drogocao in a loud voice in Dothraki, as if he had seen his own father.
Then, it was changed to a lingua franca. "Allow me to introduce you to two of my distinguished guests, Viserys III of House Targaryen, the true king of the Andals and their ancestors, and his sister, Daenerys Targaryen."
"See his long hair?"
Viserys, with a sickly flush on his pale face at the moment, whispered in his sister's ear.
"Whenever the Dothraki were defeated in a duel, they cut off their hair so that everyone could see it. Drogo Kao, never, never lost"
"Although he is a wild man, he is also the most murderous wild man in the world, and you will become his queen."
"Come forward, my little princess.", Governor Illyrio beckoned to Daenerys.
Daenerys stepped forward slowly, feeling like a piece of pork on a shelf. Let people look at it unscrupulously. The protrusion of the gauzy clothes made her feel a burst of shame.
Xu felt Daenerys's discomfort, Drogo Kao didn't look at Daenerys's body much, very gentlemanly, but his eyes stayed on Daenerys's face for a moment, then turned the horse's head and hit the horse back.
"Hey, where is he going?" Viserys ran over in a rage.
"The ceremony is over, my Highness"
"But he hasn't said anything, has he taken a fancy to her?"
"Trust my Highness, if he hadn't taken a fancy to him, we'd have known."
The Doge of Illyrio concealed an important custom of the Dothraki people, if they did not like the woman they met at the ceremony, they would usually cut off the head of the woman at the ceremony, and it must be said that it was very dangerous to go on a blind date with the Dothraki.
"It won't be long before you can cross the Narrow Sea and reclaim your throne." Illyrio complimented Viserys as he walked back.
"People secretly raise their glasses to wish you the health of the dragon, and they are eager for the return of the true king."
"When will they get married?"
"Soon, the Dothraki never stay in one place for too long."
"Are the rumors true? I heard that the Dothraki even have horses? ”
"This........ I didn't ask Drogo Kao. Illyrio couldn't really answer that question, and he didn't dare ask anyone else.
"I advise you not to ask in person."
"Are you taking me for a fool?" Viserys was furious.
Illyrio said you were a fool.
"I regard you as my king, as the so-called king does not understand the taboo of small people, I am afraid that you don't care about the details, it doesn't matter if you anger Drogo, but you still need him now, if my words offend you, don't care."
"Cut." Viserys smiled contemptuously.
"Of course I know how to deal with a character like Kao, I give him a woman, he gives me an army."
"But I don't want to be his woman." Daenerys, who was lagging behind, mustered up the courage to resist weakly. "I just want to go home."
"I want to go home too, my sister." Viserys' face darkened, and he smiled fiercely. "But our home has been taken by those damned betrayers."
Viserys laughed as she walked over to Daenerys,
"Tell me, sister, how are we going to get home?"
Without waiting for Daenerys to answer, Viserys gave his answer.
"We're going to take an army home, we're going to take Drogokao's army home, and we're going to kill all those betrayers, and I don't care what those Dothraki people do with you, if there's a need, even if their whole tribe, 40,000 men and 40,000 horses, I'll watch with pleasure and help them hold you by the waist." Do you understand? With that, Viserys kissed Daenerys on the forehead.
"Don't bring food to my sister tonight, she's going to be a bride, she has to keep in shape. Until she got married, she was hungry. ”
Viserys said to Illyrio.