“ Will you make a song for him?” the woman asked. “Aegon,” he said to a woman nursing a newborn babe in a great wooden bed. Vision #4: “ The man had her brother’s hair, but he was taller, and his eyes were a dark indigo rather than lilac. It was said that the Mad King Aerys became so paranoid that he even thought Rhaegar was plotting to steal his throne, so perhaps this was a vision of Aerys? Or possibly Robert during the rebellion? Either way, the dragon skulls in the throne room would seem to confirm that this Targaryen-related. Upon a towering barbed throne sat an old man in rich robes, an old man with dark eyes and long silver-grey hair. “Let him be king over charred bones and cooked meat,” he said to a man below him. The skulls of dead dragons looked down from its walls. Vision #3: “ Beyond loomed a cavernous stone hall, the largest she had ever seen. We know that Robb and nearly all his bannermen were killed and the Freys then sewed Grey Wind’s head onto Robb’s body, thus “a dead man with the head of a wolf.” It seems pretty certain that this is a vision of the forthcoming Red Wedding. He wore an iron crown and held a leg of lamb in one hand as a king might hold a scepter, and his eyes followed Dany with mute appeal.” (700) On a throne above them sat a dead man with the head of a wolf. Savaged limbs clutched bloody cups, wooden spoons, roast fowl, heels of bread. Savagely slaughtered, the feasters lay strewn across overturned chairs and hacked trestle tables, asprawl in pools of congealing blood. Vision #2: “ Farther on she came upon a feast of corpses. I suppose since Gregor is so freaking huge then the others would seem little to him, but otherwise I’m not sure what else this one could be. It’s the “little men” part that throws me off though. I’m tempted to think this is a vision of the past, when Gregor Clegane and his men raped Princess Elia before they killed. Another savaged her breasts, worrying at the nipples with his wet red mouth, tearing and chewing.” They had rattish pointed faces and tiny pink hands, like the servitor who had brought her the glass of shade. Vision #1: “In one room, a beautiful woman sprawled naked on the floor while four little men crawled over her. So now that I’m reading the chapter again with some lovely hindsight, let’s dive right in to it and take a look at what Dany’s visions of the future are and/or could be. This is, in many ways, one of the most important chapters in the entire series thus far as Dany sees visions of both the past and the future. But I’ve finally gotten to the one chapter I’ve wanted to re-read more than any other in A Clash of Kings: the Daenerys chapter where she visits Pyat Pree’s “House of the Undying” in Qarth. So much work, so little time for reading and thus blogging.
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