A Dance With Dragons: Daenerys II (Chapter Summary)

Daenerys is shaken awake in the middle of the night by her handmaids.  Skahaz, Reznak, and Grey Worm require her presence in the throne room.  tThe Sons of the Harpy have struck again.  Black Fist and Cetherys were slain by cross-bow bolts in Mazdhan’s Maze; Mossador and Duran were crushed by falling stones beneath the river wall; Eladon Goldenhair and Loyal Spear were poisoned at a wineshop; three freed men were murdered in their homes, a money lender, a cobbler, and the harpist Rylona Rhee.  Mossador was Missandei’s brother.  Before Daenerys had freed them, the two siblings had been taken from their home on Narth by raiders from the Basilisk Isles and sold into slavery in Astapor.  Daenerys commands Grey Worm to pull back the Unsullied from the city; henceforth, Meereen will be guarded by a new watch, made up in equal parts of shavepates and freedmen.  Moreover, she commands that two children from each of the old slaving families are to serve her at court as pages and cupbearers. 

A Dance With Dragons: Daenerys I (Chapter Summary)

Daenerys Targaryen is woken by Missandei and rushed to the throne room.  Her bedchambers are located in the lofty apex of the Great Pyramid of Meereen, eight hundred feet in the sky.  Irri and Jhiqui warn Daenerys that it is bad luck to touch a dead person you haven’t killed yourself.  In the throne room Daenerys covers herself with a lion pelt, made from the head and hide of a hrakkar, the white lion of the Dothraki sea, given to her by Khal Drogo.  Grey Worm enters the room wearing a bronze cap with three spikes, followed by four of the Unsullied bearing a dead man on their shoulders.  Barristan Selmy, lord commander of the Queensguard, pulls back the bloodstained shroud covering the dead man’s body: a tall man, blue-eyed and fair of face; his cheeks are slashed open from ear to ear and his body covered in wounds.