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Qotho glared down at her, his eyes hard as flint. "The maegi." He spat. "This I will not do."
柯索從馬上瞪著她，兩眼剛硬如燧石。“巫魔女，”他啐了一口，“我不干。”
You will, Dany said, "or when Drogo wakes, he will hear why you defied me."
“你立刻去辦，”丹妮說，“否則等卓戈醒來，他會想知道你為何忤逆我。”
Furious, Qotho wheeled his stallion around and galloped off in anger... but Dany knew he would return with Mirri Maz Duur, however little he might like it. The slaves erected Khal Drogo's tent beneath a jagged outcrop of black rock whose shadow gave some relief from the heat of the afternoon sun. Even so, it was stifling under the sandsilk as Irri and Doreah helped Dany walk Drogo inside. Thick patterned carpets had been laid down over the ground, and pillows scattered in the corners. Eroeh, the timid girl Dany had rescued outside the mud walls of the Lamb Men, set up a brazier. They stretched Drogo out on a woven mat. "No," he muttered in the Common Tongue. "No, no." It was all he said, all he seemed capable of saying.
柯索憤怒地調轉馬頭，飛奔而去……但丹妮知道，無論他多么不情愿，終究是會把彌麗·馬茲·篤爾帶來的。奴隸們在一片崎嶇的黑色巖層下搭起卓戈卡奧的大帳，那里的陰影可以稍稍遮擋午后的驕陽。即便如此，當伊麗和多莉亞協助丹妮攙扶卓戈走進沙絲帳時，里面依舊熱得令人窒息。地上鋪著厚重的繪畫地毯，枕頭散置于角落。埃蘿葉，那個丹妮在“羊人”城鎮的泥墻外解救的羞怯女孩，已經燃起一個火盆。他們讓卓戈平躺在草席上。“不，”他用通用語呢喃著，“不，不。”他只說得出這個字，仿佛這是他能力惟一所及。
Doreah unhooked his medallion belt and stripped off his vest and leggings, while Jhiqui knelt by his feet to undo the laces of his riding sandals. Irri wanted to leave the tent flaps open to let in the breeze, but Dany forbade it. She would not have any see Drogo this way, in delirium and weakness.
多莉亞解開他的獎章腰帶，脫下他的背心和綁腿，姬琪則跪在他腳邊，為他解開騎馬涼鞋。伊麗想讓帳篷敞開通風，但丹妮不準，她絕不能讓別人看見卓戈神智不清的虛弱模樣。
