#bookdaenerys

#i dont know why but it just really hit me how the children enslaved in this first round of danys war are still out there#in planetos#we more than likelt will never see them again in the narrative#but these are the lives shes ruined#previously free people are still enslaved#and do you think she'll track every one of them down to right her wrongs#no chance#breaker of chains my ass

Drogo’s khalasar attacks a town that was already being attacked by Ogo’s khalasar, so probably they didn’t enslaved anyone who would have been free if Drogo hadn’t attacked. Which is frankly an interesting decision on Martin’s part, to ~spare Dany from responsibility for that, even this early, even indirectly.

'Indirectly’ because it is, of course, barely Daenerys’s war; she’s the causus belli, not a decision-maker.

"It was a cruel fate," Dany said, "yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb god and the horse god and every god that lives. I swear it by the Mother of Mountains and the Womb of the World. Before I am done with them, Mago and Ko Jhaqo will plead for the mercy they showed Eroeh.”

     A Storm of Swords      - Daenerys III    

 "Do you remember Eroeh?" she asked him.  "The Lhazareen girl?"

     A Storm of Swords      - Daenerys VI    

She found herself remembering Eroeh, the Lhazarene girl she had once tried to protect, and what had happened to her.

     A Dance with Dragons      - Daenerys III    

"My dragons have grown, my shoulders have not. They range far afield, hunting." Hazzea, forgive me. She wondered how much Xaro knew, what whispers he had heard. "Ask the Good Masters of Astapor about my dragons if you doubt them." I saw a slaver's eyes melt and go running down his cheeks.

     A Dance with Dragons      - Daenerys V    

 "I know. I know. It is Eroeh all over again.”  Brown Ben Plumm was puzzled. "Who is Eroeh?"

     A Dance with Dragons      - Daenerys VIII    

No queen has clean hands, Dany told herself. She thought of Doreah, of Quaro, of Eroeh… of a little girl she had never met, whose name had been Hazzea. Better a few should die in the pit than thousands at the gates. This is the price of peace, I pay it willingly. If I look back, I am lost.

     A Dance with Dragons      - Daenerys X    

Ko Jhaqo named himself Khal Jhaqo and rode off with even more. Mago, his bloodrider, raped and murdered Eroeh, a girl Daenerys had once saved from him.

"Drogon killed a little girl. Her name was … her name …" Dany could not recall the child's name. That made her so sad that she would have cried if all her tears had not been burned away.

♕ DAENERYS APPRECIATION MONTH ♕ Day 2 → Favourite Book Moment

‟I was alone for a long time, Jorah. All alone but for my brother. I was such a small scared thing. Viserys should have protected me, but instead he hurt me and scared me worse. He shouldn't have done that. He wasn't just my brother, he was my king. Why do the gods make kings and queens, if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?ˮ

‟Some kings make themselves. Robert did.ˮ