Chapter 12

At dawn, Daenerys remained at the camp with the elderly, the wounded, women, and children. Ser Jorah Mormont stood as their protector, while Drogo led the bloodriders and the recently returned khalasar warriors to the edge of the Dothraki Sea.

Their mission was not conquest, but hunting—to gather game and search for seeds that might be cultivated.

The road to Qarth was long and harsh, cutting through the barren Red Waste. Without enough food and reserve livestock, they would collapse from hunger and exhaustion, their corpses eroded by wind and dust.