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Dany had never felt so alone as she did seated in the midst of that vast horde. Her brother had told her to smile, and so she smiled until her face ached and the tears came unbidden to her eyes. She did her best to hide them, knowing how angry Viserys would be if he saw her crying, terrified of how Khal Drogo might react. Food was brought to her, steaming joints of meat and thick black sausages and Dothraki blood pies, and later fruits and sweetgrass stews and delicate pastries from the kitchens of Pentos, but she waved it all away. Her stomach was a roil, and she knew she could keep none of it down.
然而丹妮無暇他顧，置身這片廣大人海之中，她只感到前所未有的孤獨。哥哥要她微笑，所以她努力保持笑容，直到臉部肌肉酸疼，眼淚也不爭氣地流了下來。她竭力隱藏淚水，因為她太清楚要是教韋賽里斯見到會有多生氣，她更害怕卓戈卡奧的反應。食物一盤盤端至眼前，有香氣四溢的肉塊，肥厚的黑香腸，多斯拉克血餡餅，后來還有各式水果，甜菜湯，以及做工精巧的潘托斯蛋糕，但她都一一揮手趕開。她很清楚自己的胃攪成一團，沒法吞下任何東西。
There was no one to talk to. Khal Drogo shouted commands and jests down to his bloodriders, and laughed at their replies, but he scarcely glanced at Dany beside him. They had no common language. Dothraki was incomprehensible to her, and the khal knew only a few words of the bastard Valyrian of the Free Cities, and none at all of the Common Tongue of the Seven Kingdoms. She would even have welcomed the conversation of Illyrio and her brother, but they were too far below to hear her.
沒有人陪她聊天解悶。卓戈卡奧朝下方的血盟衛大聲嬉笑吆喝，隨他們的回答而放聲大笑，但他自始至終都不看身旁的丹妮一眼。他們沒有共通的語言，她聽不懂多斯拉克語，而卡奧只會說幾句自由貿易城邦的瓦雷利亞方言，通行七國的標準話語他一竅不通。就算只能跟伊利里歐和哥哥說話，她也非常樂意，只可惜他們的座位離她實在太遠。
So she sat in her wedding silks, nursing a cup of honeyed wine, afraid to eat, talking silently to herself. I am blood of the dragon, she told herself. I am Daenerys Stormborn, Princess of Dragonstone, of the blood and seed of Aegon the Conqueror.
于是她只能身披婚紗，端著一杯摻了蜂蜜的葡萄酒，不吃不動，靜靜地自言自語："我是真龍傳人，"她告訴自己，"我是風暴降生丹妮莉絲，龍石島的公主，體內流著'征服者'伊耿的血液。"
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