Chapter Read Daenerys 6 a Dance of Dragons
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Today'southward entry is Role 31 of A Trip the light fantastic toe With Dragons, in which we comprehend Chapter 52 ("Daenerys").
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Chapter 52: Daenerys
What Happens
On the day the fighting pits reopen, Dany bathes and dresses in her "floppy ears" in dread, gently dismissing Missandei's proffer that she not nourish. Ser Barristan is non happy that she volition be guarded by Brazen Beasts rather than Unsullied, but Dany tells him they must have a take a chance to earn her trust. Barristan tells her that Meris claims the Tattered Prince meant to bring the Windblown to her from the beginning, but was sabotaged past Quentyn Martell and his entourage jumping in starting time. Dany sighs, merely tells Barristan to pay them what they ask. Barristan says the Prince wants Pentos; startled, Dany replies that she could not give him Pentos, and nor would she repay Magister Illyrio that way if she could.
She and Hizdahr ride in procession to Daznak'south Pit, the crowds in the streets auspicious them. Dany tries not to be disturbed that her handmaids are eagerly arguing over the grand match alee. Midway, they are blocked by an overturned palanquin, 1 of whose bearers has collapsed. Barristan fears an ambush, but Hizdahr claims the Sons of the Harpy have been "tamed." Dany orders the man tended to, and they proceed without incident. At the pit, they are seated on the lowest and closest tier to the sand. Strong Belwas immediately begins gorging himself on honeyed locusts; Hizdahr urges Dany to try them, merely Dany says she volition stick to dates and figs.
Hizdahr opens the games by exhorting the crowd to cheer for Dany, which they do, calling her "Mhysa!" ("Mother") only Dany thinks it is the fighting they are cheering, non her. The matches begin, and Dany endures the butchery with less and less fortitude as they continue, until a pair of dwarves jousting with wooden swords astride a sow and canis familiaris come up on. They are wearing the arms of Business firm Baratheon and Lannister, and Hizdahr confides that unbeknownst to the dwarves, they will soon be prepare upon by lions. At this, Dany rouses and orders Hizdahr to call the lions off, arguing that unlike the other fighters, the dwarves had non agreed to the terms set. Hizdahr is momentarily angry, but agrees. The crowd boos, and Barsena Blackhair comes on adjacent to placate them. She fights a boar, and loses badly; when the boar begins to eat Barsena'south corpse, Dany declares that she can bear no more, and begins to exit. Hizdahr is dislocated, and urges her to stay. Strong Belwas is showtime to be sick from the locusts, and falls out of his chair.
She argues with Hizdahr, just they are interrupted by a shadow across the sky: Drogon, at present larger than e'er, kills the boar with fire and lands to begin eating it and Barsena's corpse as well, while a panic begins in the stands. A man tries to kill the dragon with a spear, and Dany screams along with Drogon when he is struck. Drogon takes the human's arm off at the shoulder, and Hizdahr screams at his men to kill the dragon. Potent Belwas begins vomiting, and Dany jumps from the stands to the pit, screaming the dragon's name. He snaps at her, and she knows if she runs from him he volition impale her. She grabs the whip from the now-dead pitmaster and flogs Drogon with it, screaming at him to get downwardly. He fights her at first, but she dodges his flames and continues, and so all at once he surrenders and lays down.
He is fire made flesh, she thought, and then am I.
Daenerys Targaryen vaulted onto the dragon'due south back, seized the spear, and ripped information technology out. The point was half-melted, the iron red-hot, glowing. She flung information technology aside. Drogon twisted under her, his muscles rippling equally he gathered his force. The air was thick with sand. Dany could not see, she could not breathe, she could not think. The black wings croaky similar thunder, and suddenly the cerise sands were falling abroad beneath her.
Dizzy, Dany closed her eyes. When she opened them again, she glimpsed the Meereenese beneath her through a haze of tears and dust, pouring up the steps and out into the streets.
The lash was notwithstanding in her manus. She flicked it against Drogon'south neck and cried, "Higher!" Her other hand clutched at his scales, her fingers scrabbling for purchase. Drogon's wide blackness wings beat the air. Dany could experience the oestrus of him between her thighs. Her middle felt every bit if information technology were nigh to burst. Yes, she thought, yeah, now, now, do it, do it, take me, have me, Fly!
Commentary
SHIT YEAH! WHOO!
Now that? That was a goddamn Crowning Moment of Crawly, y'all.
Because, you guys! YOU GUYS. OMG.
Dany is riding her dragon! Dany! Is riding! A dragon!
Wow. Is that the first time I have bestowed the Official Leigh Butler SparkleYay of Approving™ on a moment in ASOIAF? I think information technology might be!
Unless it isn't. But it might be!
Well, in full general it's not really the kind of story in which many sparkly yay-similar things tend to happen, and then that's probably not surprising. But fifty-fifty if the whole thing falls to shit for Dany in the side by side five minutes, this moment was still worth one. Hells to the aye.
And oh my God, y'all, the symbolism the Meereenese will get out of this, it's delicious. Dragon queen disapproves of bad fighting pits—dragon EATS your bad fighting pits! Suck on that, bad pit-liking slavery-nevertheless-would-like-to-be-having people! Yeah! Yeah!
Okay, I am not nearly cool plenty to exist allowed to make the manus gestures I just started throwing, and so we will motion on now, to: Holy shit, Dany saved Tyrion and Penny's lives without even knowing who they were!
OMG, I want a Tyrion POV so bad now. Not just for that, or whether he will fifty-fifty realize what happened re: the lions (though I exercise desire that), but more for his reaction to Dany's moment of Fucking Awesome after it. I've forgotten a lot equally we become, simply I definitely think that one of the showtime things we learn about Tyrion is how enamored he is of dragons. So seeing that moment (if he did—I promise he did) must have been like a dream come true for him. At to the lowest degree ane would recollect. And then yep, looking forrad to getting that reaction.
Too, do non retrieve I missed the affair with Strong Belwas, and how sick he was getting from the honeyed locusts Hizdahr had specifically encouraged Dany to swallow. Coincidence? I Remember NOT.
Or, well, maybe. But PROBABLY NOT.
Though it does occur to me that there doesn't seem to be any immediately obvious reason for him to off Dany at this point, since other than a few quibbles here and at that place, she's basically been going along with everything he's wanted of her. And, you know, I'one thousand bold that he could not possibly have predicted DRAGON-RIDING DISRUPTIONS OF AWESOME, so as far as I tin tell Hizdahr assassinating Dany seems similar jumping the gun.
Unless he'd planned to practise it all along, of course. In which case I So told you so, Dany! That bastard. Grr.
Of course, given that DRAGON-RIDING DISRUPTIONS OF AWESOME totally did happen, I have absolutely no idea what's going to happen next re: Dany or Hizdahr or Meereen or merely well-nigh anything in this unabridged storyline. And then I don't know if the fact that Hizdahr may or may not take tried to poison Dany via candy-coated insect fifty-fifty matters now.
Because basically, what happened at the terminate of this chapter is what the kids call "a game-changer." To say the to the lowest degree.
(YAY)
Three treasons shall you lot know. She was the showtime, Jorah was the 2d, Brown Ben Plumm the third. Was she done with betrayals?
…Really? We're done with that prophecy already? Damn, I didn't fifty-fifty detect.
Probably because I wouldn't accept thought Plumm'south betrayal would accept counted. It doesn't seem quite… momentous enough. Or "not pivotal plenty" might be a better way to phrase it. His revolt to the Yunkai'i was another nail in the coffin of Dany's hope to save Meereen herself, leading to her conclusion to marry Hizdahr, aye, but I don't remember that it was the cardinal one. Still, the whole business is pretty jumbled in my caput by at present so I could very easily be wrong.
Well, whether Plumm counts as the "betrayed for money" part of the prophecy or non, I very seriously doubt that Dany is done with betrayals every bit long as she sticks with the royalty racket. Seems that the more than rarified your social circle, the more that treachery becomes a feature rather than a issues.
Of class, who knows what Dany's going to do next re: being a royal person. I personally kind of wish she would fly off into the dusk with her dragon and go live on like a tropical island somewhere and never have to bargain with stupid shit again, only I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get that particular wish. Sigh.
And last and most definitely to the lowest degree:
Soon Dany was as clean every bit she was e'er going to be. She pushed herself to her anxiety, splashing softly. H2o ran down her legs and beaded on her breasts.
LOL. Did it now.
Pitiful, it'south merely funny, sometimes. Martin, as a general rule, has washed an splendid task of making his female characters (including Dany) real, believable and complex human beings who 95% of the time are then very much more than than simply eye candy, merely wow, sometimes it is so screamingly obvious that this is written by a straight guy that it's hilarious to me. Let'south just say, I'm pretty sure nosotros've never gotten (nor will we ever get) such a lovingly precise description in ASOIAF of where the h2o beads on, say, Jaime's trunk later he comes out of a bathroom. Heh.
But hey, if information technology's in the same chapter where Dany faces down a GODDAMN DRAGON and gets on its back in front of one-half the world and RIDES HER DRAGON INTO THE GODDAMN Sunset, Considering FUCK ALLA Y'ALL, she says, I AM THE Blood OF THE FUCKING DRAGON, HEAR ME ROAR, then you know what? We are all expert.
And on that restrained and measured notation, we out! Whoo! Dragons! Thursday! Next time! Dragons! Whoo!
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Source: https://www.tor.com/2015/07/30/a-read-of-ice-and-fire-a-dance-with-dragons-part-31/
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