A Dance With Dragons

The body count of people killed by the insurgent Sons of the Harpy mounts, and there seems to be nothing Daenerys can do about it. Hizdahr and other nobles come before her again during her audience to ask for her to re-establish the slave trade and re-open the fighting pits of Meereen—also run on the labor of enslaved people. These audiences include common people, including those who come for recompense when Drogon kills their livestock. This time, a man brings the bones of his little girl, whom he claims Drogon killed. Daenerys is horrified because this is the behavior of a monster, not a creature with intelligence. She must make her peace with Drogon and the other two monsters, Rhaegal and Viserion, because as the “blood of the dragon,” she may also be a monster (160).

Reek (Theon Greyjoy) is so abused that he fears more torture from cruel Ramsay Bolton, now the legitimate heir of Roose Bolton. Ramsay brings Reek up from the dungeons at the Dreadfort, the Boltons’ seat, because he has a task for him. The lords who are in on the plan with Bolton refuse to accept that the white-haired, skeletally thin, fawning man in front of them is Theon at first.