Daenerys sleeps and has strange dreams of Drogo having sex with her, of Viserys talking of waking dragons, of her son, tall and proud with bronze skin and white hair, consumed in flame, and of Rhaegar, yet when she opens his visor she sees her own face. She awakens very weak and tries to reach her dragon eggs. Irri, Jhiqui, and Doreah are there, as are Rakharo and Mirri Maz Duur. Jorah comes and takes her back to her bed. She sleeps again, and when she wakes she asks to hold an egg before going back to sleep. The third time she stays awake and asks for Jorah. Her egg is warm to the touch, but when Jorah arrives with Mirri and Daenerys asks him to feel it, he only feels cold stone. She feels different; all her fear gone.

Daenerys learns her son is dead; he came out of the womb twisted and seeming to have died years ago. Entering the tent killed her son; it was the price for Drogo's life. She tells Mirri to show her Drogo. When they get outside, they see Aggo, Jhogo, Rakharo, and about a hundred old men, women, and children. The rest are gone. Pono declared himself a khal first and left with many others; next Jhaqo did the same with twenty thousand men. Nearly a dozen new khalasars were formed in all. They took the livestock and the slaves. Maggo, now a bloodrider to Jhaqo, and several others took Eroeh and raped her then slit her throat. Daenerys says he will pay. Mirri takes her to Drogo. He is blind and does not respond to anything. Daenerys is furious at Mirri, and Mirri explains that she did it for revenge and to rid the world of the stallion that mounts the world. Daenerys orders her bound hand and foot and carried away. That night, she takes Drogo out into the grass and uses every sexual trick she knows to try and revive him. When all fails, she smothers him.