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Daenerys
丹妮莉絲
The Dothraki named the comet shierak qiya, the Bleeding Star. The old men muttered that it omened ill, but Daenerys Targaryen had seen it first on the night she had burned Khal Drogo, the night her dragons had awakened. It is the herald of my coming, she told herself as she gazed up into the night sky with wonder in her heart. The gods have sent it to show me the way.
多斯拉克人稱彗星為“西拉克·魁亞”，意為“泣血之星”。老人們竊竊私語說這是惡兆，但丹妮莉絲·坦格利安早在火葬卓戈卡奧當晚便已見到此星，她的小龍也在那時蘇醒。這是真龍回歸的使節，她充滿感動地仰望夜空，一邊告訴自己，這是天上諸神為我派來的指路星。
Yet when she put the thought into words, her handmaid Doreah quailed. "That way lies the red lands, Khaleesi. A grim place and terrible, the riders say."
然而當她說出心中打算，女仆多莉亞卻畏懼地說：“卡麗熙，那里是紅土荒原啊。騎馬民族都知道，那是個荒涼恐怖的地方。”
The way the comet points is the way we must go, Dany insisted... though in truth, it was the only way open to her.
“彗星所指的方向，就是我們前進的路途。”丹妮堅持……但事實上，他們也只有這條路可走。
She dare not turn north onto the vast ocean of grass they called the Dothraki sea. The first khalasar they met would swallow up her ragged band, slaying the warriors and slaving the rest. The lands of the Lamb Men south of the river were likewise closed to them. They were too few to defend themselves even against that unwarlike folk, and the Lhazareen had small reason to love them. She might have struck downriver for the ports at Meereen and Yunkai and Astapor, but Rakharo warned her that Pono's khalasar had ridden that way, driving thousands of captives before them to sell in the flesh marts that festered like open sores on the shores of Slaver's Bay. "Why should I fear Pono?" Dany objected. "He was Drogo's ko, and always spoke me gently."
她不敢向北，因為那會進入有“多斯拉克海”之稱的遼闊草原，而他們遇上的頭一個卡拉薩便會將她殘破不堪的隊伍吞噬殆盡，戰士會被盡數誅殺，余人將淪為奴隸。河流以南的“羊人”之地同樣不可行，她的隊伍實在太弱，連面對那支不好戰的民族都無法抵擋，而拉札林人沒有任何理由善待他們。她考慮過沿河朝東南方的下游走，去彌林、淵凱和阿斯塔波等港口。但拉卡洛提出警告：波諾的卡拉薩正是朝著那個方向，驅趕著數千奴隸，準備去奴隸灣沿岸如膿包般滋生的奴隸市場中販售。“我何懼波諾？”丹妮反問，“他從前是卓戈的‘寇’，對我向來客氣。”
