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A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle

A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle

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Autoren: George R.R. Martin
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barefoot, with dirt between her toes and oil in her hair, he with his silks and steel. Dany could see the decision on his face. “He shall walk,
Khaleesi,”
he said. He took her brother’s horse in hand while Dany remounted her silver.
    Viserys gaped at him, and sat down in the dirt. He kept his silence, but he would not move, and his eyes were full of poison as they rode away. Soon he was lost in the tall grass. When they could not see him anymore, Dany grew afraid. “Will he find his way back?” she asked Ser Jorah as they rode.
    â€œEven a man as blind as your brother should be able to follow our trail,” he replied.
    â€œHe is proud. He may be too shamed to come back.”
    Jorah laughed. “Where else should he go? If he cannot find the
khalasar
, the
khalasar
will most surely find him. It is hard to drown in the Dothraki sea, child.”
    Dany saw the truth of that. The
khalasar
was like a city on the march, but it did not march blindly. Always scouts ranged far ahead of the main column, alert for any sign of game or prey or enemies, while outriders guarded their flanks. They missed nothing, not here, in this land, the place where they had come from. These plains were a part of them … and of her, now.
    â€œI hit him,” she said, wonder in her voice. Now that it was over, it seemed like some strange dream that she had dreamed. “Ser Jorah, do you think … he’ll be so angry when he gets back …” She shivered. “I woke the dragon, didn’t I?”
    Ser Jorah snorted. “Can you wake the dead, girl? Your brother Rhaegar was the last dragon, and he died on the Trident. Viserys is less than the shadow of a snake.”
    His blunt words startled her. It seemed as though all the things she had always believed were suddenly called into question. “You … you swore him your sword …”
    â€œThat I did, girl,” Ser Jorah said. “And if your brother is the shadow of a snake, what does that make his servants?” His voice was bitter.
    â€œHe is still the true king. He is …”
    Jorah pulled up his horse and looked at her. “Truth now. Would you want to see Viserys sit a throne?”
    Dany thought about that. “He would not be a very good king, would he?”
    â€œThere have been worse … but not many.” The knight gave his heels to his mount and started off again.
    Dany rode close beside him. “Still,” she said, “the common people are waiting for him. Magister Illyrio says they are sewing dragon banners and praying for Viserys to return from across the narrow sea to free them.”
    â€œThe common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends,” Ser Jorah told her. “It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.” He gave a shrug. “They never are.”
    Dany rode along quietly for a time, working his words like a puzzle box. It went against everything that Viserys had ever told her to think that the people could care so little whether a true king or a usurper reigned over them. Yet the more she thought on Jorah’s words, the more they rang of truth.
    â€œWhat do
you
pray for, Ser Jorah?” she asked him.
    â€œHome,” he said. His voice was thick with longing.
    â€œI pray for home too,” she told him, believing it.
    Ser Jorah laughed. “Look around you then,
Khaleesi.”
    But it was not the plains Dany saw then. It was King’s Landing and the great Red Keep that Aegon the Conqueror had built. It was Dragonstone where she had been born. In her mind’s eye they burned with a thousand lights, a fire blazing in every window. In her mind’s eye, all the doors were red.
    â€œMy brother will never take back the Seven Kingdoms,” Dany said. She had known that for a long time, she realized. She had known it all her life. Only she had never let herself say the words, even in a whisper, but now she said them for Jorah Mormont and all the world to hear.
    Ser Jorah gave her a measuring look. “You think not.”
    â€œHe could not lead an army even if my lord husband gave him one,” Dany said. “He has no coin and the only knight who follows him reviles him as less than a snake. The Dothraki make mock of his weakness. He will never take us home.”
    â€œWise child.” The knight

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