n heard in the realm for more than three hundred years, since Aegon the Dragon had come to make the Seven Kingdoms one . The animal gave a hideous scream and reared. Every khal had his bloodriders. She bent over the tub, over Drogo in his bath of blood, and kissed him lightly on the brow.
And the greatest of them, Balerion, the Black Dread, could have swallowed an aurochs whole, or even one of the hairy mammoths said to roam the cold wastes beyond the Port of Ibben. For a moment he was at a loss. It's all blizzards and bearskins up there, and the Starks know no music but the howling of wolves. Even the truest knight cannot protect a king against himself, Ned said.
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