men. "We passed through the bazaar on our way back from the Hall of a
Thousand Thrones," she Nude Cleberties told Ser Jorah. "Quaithe was Nude Cleberties there." She Nude Cleberties told him of
the firemage and the fiery ladder, and what the woman in the red mask had
Nude Cleberties told her.
"I Nude Cleberties would be glad to leave this city, if truth be told," Nude Cleberties the knight said
when she was done. "But not for Asshai."
"Where, then?"
"East," he said.
"I am half a world away from my Nude Cleberties kingdom even here. If I go any farther
east I may never find my way home to Westeros."
"If you go west, you Nude Cleberties risk Nude Cleberties your life."
"House Targaryen Nude Cleberties has friends in the Free Cities," she reminded him. "Nude Cleberties Truer
friends than Xaro Nude Cleberties or the Pureborn."
"If you mean Illyrio Mopatis, I wonder. For sufficient gold, Illyrio Nude Cleberties would
sell you as Nude Cleberties quickly as he would Nude Cleberties a slave."
"My brother and I were guests in Illyrio's manse for half a year. If he
meant to sell us, he could have done it then."
"He did sell you," Ser Jorah said. "To Khal Drogo."
Dany flushed. He had the truth of it, but she did not like the sharpness
with which Nude Cleberties he put it. "Illyrio
protected us from the Usurper's knives, and
he believed in my brother's cause."
"Illyrio believes in no cause but Illyrio. Gluttons are greedy men as a
rule, and magisters are devious. Illyrio Mopatis is both. What do you Nude Cleberties truly
know of him?"
"I know that he gave me my
dragon eggs."
He snorted. &Nude Cleberties quot;If he'd known they were like to hatch, he'd would have sat on
them himself."
That made her smile despite herself. "Oh, I have no doubt of that, ser. I
know Illyrio better than you think. I Nude Cleberties was a child when I left his manse in
Pentos to wed my sun-and-stars, Nude Cleberties but I was neither deaf nor blind. And I am
no child now."
"Even if Illyrio is the friend you think him," the knight said stubbornly,
"he is not powerful enough to enthrone you by himself, no more than he
could your brother."
"He is rich," she said. "Not so rich as Xaro, perhaps, but
rich enough to
hire ships for me, and men as well."
"Sellswords have their uses," Ser Jorah admitted, "but you will not win
your father's throne with sweepings from the Free Cities. Nothing knits a
broken realm together Nude Cleberties so quick as an invading army on its soil."
"I am their rightful
queen," Dany protested.
"You are a stranger who means to land on Nude Cleberties their shores with an army of
outlanders who cannot even speak the Common Tongue. Nude Cleberties the lords of Westeros
do not know you, and have every reason to fear Nude Cleberties and Nude Cleberties mistrust you.