Chapter 20

When Drogo announced his decision, the bloodriders voiced their objections again and again:

"Khal, you were born to conquer, to turn the defeated into slaves—not to forsake our honor by buying them! Why let those eunuchs, stripped of their identity, join our ranks?"

Their sense of honor, instilled by old traditions, ran bone-deep. The old Drogo might have had no answer—but the new one chose reason over pride.