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Not a queen, said Dany. A khaleesi. She wheeled her horse about and galloped down the ridge alone.
不是公主，丹妮說，是卡麗熙。說完她調轉馬頭，獨自奔下山崗。
The descent was steep and rocky, but Dany rode fearlessly, and the joy and the danger of it were a song in her heart.
坡路陡峭，遍地巖石，但丹妮毫不畏懼，馳騁的快意和危險使她心花怒放。
All her life Viserys had told her she was a princess, but not until she rode her silver had Daenerys Targaryen ever felt like one.
韋賽里斯從小就口口聲聲說她是個公主，但直到她騎上小銀馬，丹妮莉絲·坦格利安才真正覺得此話成了真。
At first it had not come easy. The khalasar had broken camp the morning after her wedding, moving east toward Vaes Dothrak,
起初一切都不順利，卡拉薩在婚禮翌日清晨便拔營動身，朝東邊的維斯·多斯拉克出發。
and by the third day Dany thought she was going to die.
才到第三天，丹妮就覺得自己半死不活。
Saddle sores opened on her bottom, hideous and bloody.
連日坐在馬鞍上，導致她的臀部傷痕累累，血流不止。
Her thighs were chafed raw, her hands blistered from the reins, the muscles of her legs and back so wracked with pain that she could scarcely sit.
大腿久經摩擦，脫皮得厲害，雙手則被韁繩磨起了水泡，兩腳和背部的肌肉痛得她連坐都坐不直。
By the time dusk fell, her handmaids would need to help her down from her mount.
天黑之后，她需要靠女仆幫忙方能下馬。
Even the nights brought no relief. Khal Drogo ignored her when they rode, even as he had ignored her during their wedding,
夜里她也不得安寧。白天騎馬時卓戈卡奧和結婚當天一樣，
and spent his evenings drinking with his warriors and bloodriders, racing his prize horses, watching women dance and men die.
對她不理不睬，晚上則和手下戰士與血盟衛們喝酒賽馬，觀賞女人跳舞，男人拼殺。
Dany had no place in these parts of his life. She was left to sup alone, or with Ser Jorah and her brother, and afterward to cry herself to sleep.
在他生活的這個部分，丹妮毫無地位可言。她往往獨自用餐，頂多和喬拉爵士及哥哥相伴，然后哭著入睡。
Yet every night, some time before the dawn, Drogo would come to her tent and wake her in the dark, to ride her as relentlessly as he rode his stallion.
但當每晚天將破曉，卓戈會到她的帳篷，在黑暗中叫醒她，然后無情地騎她，一如騎他的戰馬。
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