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[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

[Jesse is gone. Her pack is abandoning her again, and though she knows her first pack, her first family are dead and gone, she knows just as well that time and death mean nothing to the Admiral. He can show her them. He can show her all of them.

Maybe he can show her Jesse, too.]

If you know someone named Nan, or Nymeria, or Weasel or Salty or Cat or Beth or Underfoot or Arry or even Arya Stark--

[She chews on her lip, knows she's doing it and doesn't care enough to make herself stop.]

I'm here. Who can hear me?

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[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Not seven hundred feet of it.

[itsgoodtobethekhal]

A strong khalasar is thousands and thousands of feet. No wall can stop it.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

What's a khalasar?

[itsgoodtobethekhal]

Many men and horses, crossing as one tribe across the Dothraki sea to the sheep and lamb men. Killing, conquering, taking slaves and prizes, growing stronger with each clan we pass.

The Khal is head of the khalasar.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Are you a Khal?

[itsgoodtobethekhal]

I am Khal of the largest khalasar there ever was.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

You look strong. [Like. Damn.]

But you still can't pull down the Wall with horses.

[itsgoodtobethekhal]

The Wall will break, if it is in my way. I have not met a Wall I could not tear down. If that day should come, cut off my braid and throw my body to the crows.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

That's stupid. You should fight men, not walls.

[itsgoodtobethekhal]

Walls. Men. It makes no difference to my blade and strength. I've sworn to take this chair...this throne and my soul will be cursed forever if my vow is broken.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

You're going to cross the Narrow Sea?

[itsgoodtobethekhal]

In large wagons of wood. My Khaleesi has said it; by her word and my will, it will be done.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

You need ships to cross a sea.

A Khaleesi? ...Your queen?

[itsgoodtobethekhal]

Then I will steal ships.

Yes. She is called Daenerys Stormborn, of the House Targaryen. My Khaleesi.

And she will have her Iron Throne for my son, the Stallion who will Mount the World.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

[Wow, eyes widening.]

The mother of dragons. Viserys' sister.

[itsgoodtobethekhal]

[Deeply pleased that Arya knows about her, Drogo nods]

Give me your blessing, child-witch of Westeros. In return I will slay men in your name.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

[Whoa no one has ever asked for her blessing before. She almost corrects him. Almost.]

If I give you my blessing, you have to slay Lannisters in my name. Lannisters and all their men.

[itsgoodtobethekhal]

Tell me how I will know them from other men. Their corpses will be dragged to your temple, unburned, and their souls will wallow forever, never resting.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Their colors are red and gold, and their sigil is a lion. They'll carry banners, decorate their clothes with lions. You'll see them. You'll know.

I bless you. [That is how you give a blessing, right.] I bless you to kill Lannisters and all their bannerman and all their men. Kill them all.

[itsgoodtobethekhal]

Bless my son, and the moon of my life, so that they will live as rich and powerful as no Khal or Khaleesi ever did, and I will kill any Lannister I find.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

I bless them too. The Mother of Dragons, and the - the Stallion that mounts the world.

[It feels like a little betrayal to Viserys, to bless his sister - but he's dead, and the dead know nothing but peace.]

[itsgoodtobethekhal]

[The Dothraki have no word for 'thank you', but the smile Drogo gives is deeply pleased and satisfied. He nods.]

It will be done.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

[Her smile is a vicious little thing, and her eyes are bright. She'll take revenge in any way it comes.

(Even if part of her thinks this will change nothing, even if she thinks that one Dothraki and on Targaryen girl will never reach Westeros, there is power in blessing a Dothraki horde.)]

Good.