Friday, 9 November 2018

ASoS 8: Daenerys 105

Dany is on Illyrio's ship surrounded by Illyrio's men. Ser Jorah is suspicious of everyone, or perhaps he is being overprotective. Her dragons are flying around now and cooking meat with their own fire. She's training them to obey commands and is planning to be able to ride them.

Jorah goes to visit Dany while she's naked in bed. Dany seems to be naked a lot in these books. He convinces her not to go directly to see Illyrio, but to go to another port on the way and hire a badass army instead, so that she's got some protection against whatever nefarious plans Illyrio has.

I do wonder where they're all going to stay. It's not like you can just call up the Pentos Marriott and ask for 1000 rooms. I suppose people are used to squashing up in one room. Even Dany is sharing a bed with her handmaiden (and not even like that).

Having agreed to his plan, Dany gets out of bed to put on some clothes. She doesn't care if Jorah sees her naked, even though she knows he's in love with her. This is all the encouragement he needs: he's finally plucked up the courage to plant a big smacker on her lips. Also he wants to ride one of her dragons (behave). She likes it, but also thinks it's a bit inappropriate, so tries to pretend she didn't like it. I honestly have no idea whether Jorah is guilty of sexual harassment or not. It's a bit weird seeing as he's kind of a father figure, but then again Dany is from a long line of incestuous couplings so who am I to judge? Probably Dany's problem with it is the same as Darcy's problem with Elizabeth: eventually she'll get over herself and they'll live happily ever after.