He has that fat jape of a priest with him, the oneA GAME OF THRONES 539who likes to set his sword on fire. Nervously Dany gathered the reins. There would be time enough to deal with the succession when Arya and Sansa were safely back in Winterfell, and Lord Stannis had returned to King's Landing with all his power. They board all the horses in the east stables now, so no one bothers him.
The gods were looking over him, he told himself; the old gods, gods of the Starks and the First Men and the children of the forest, hisfather's gods. A few yards from her tent was a bed of soft grass, and it was there that Dany drew him down. But he will never run beside his wolf again, he thought with a sadness too deep for words, or lie with a woman, or hold his own son in his arms. That would be most fitting, Magister Illyrio said.
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