Prologue

Daenerys stood on the deck of the ship that would take her to Middle Earth. She had been travelling for a couple of months now and by calculations there wouldn't be more than maximum a week until she would arrive at her destination. Such a long time at sea had made her growing really tired of it, they had only managed to come ashore a couple of times during the journey and she couldn't wait to finally have steady ground under her feet again. The crew had been lucky with the weather conditions however; barely any storms and for most of the time the sun had been shining and the sea had been calm. Now it was a bit windy but still not enough to make everybody believe a storm would come.

She decided to leave Essos almost immediately after her husband Khal Drogo died, if you even can call it a "marriage" since it was never consummated. Her brother Viserys had decided to give Daenerys away to the mighty Dothraki warlord and in exchange receive a big army to help him conquer the Seven Kingdoms. Drogo sensed Daenery's unease with the marriage and much unlike other khals, he decided not to consummate the marriage with her. To make others believe that he had actually done so, he had cut himself and dripped the blood in the bed where the coupling on the wedding night was meant to take place. There never was any real intimacy between them and they barely spoke but they agreed to pretend to be married. After six months or so, Drogo was badly injured in a fight with another khal who had tried to hurt Daenerys. He managed to kill him but was sliced across the stomach himself. The wound got badly infected and he died soon after. Viserys was also dead, killed by a slash across the throat after he upset the other khals. Daenerys wouldn't miss him, he had for long assaulted her both physically and verbally and his death felt almost like a relief to her. She was sadder when Drogo died; he had after all been kind to her and never did her any harm.

There was one person Daenerys would miss in Essos a lot and that was Jorah Mormont, an exiled knight from Bear Island who had sworn to protect her. They had become friends and if Dany wasn't mistaken she could swear that he had fallen in love with her. He often watched her with the eyes of a man in love but he never said anything about it nor did he ever try to get too close. No one had ever cared for Dany as Jorah did and it was hard to leave him behind, they had both cried and hugged each other for a long time, she even gave him a kiss on the cheek. But she felt that she had to leave everything behind to start a completely new life. One, or rather three important things she brought with her were the three dragon eggs she had received on her wedding day. Dragons had always been symbolic for the Targaryen line and she would do anything to protect them, she would take care of them as her own children.

Daenerys had heard of Middle Earth when she was little, it was a world full of different creatures; humans, elves, hobbits, dwarves, wizards and no one was like the other. It made her really curious, she had always wanted to go there and now she had decided to do so, probably never to return. She had found the descriptions of each race interesting; elves were very beautiful but often seen cold and unfeeling creatures. Dwarves were stubborn and only cared about their jewels in the mountains. Hobbits were small, only cared about food and the joys in life and barely knew or cared for anything that didn't concern them. Daenerys refused to believe that there was no good in all these, after all the stories were just stories and the ones who told them had probably never been in Middle Earth themselves. There had to be some place where she could settle, where didn't matter right now. The most important thing was that she could find shelter and food for the first nights and then her journey would continue until she found somewhere suitable.

It was almost nightfall when Daenerys decided to go to bed. Being at sea was exhausting and there never was any problem for her to fall asleep. "It won't be too long now, soon I will arrive and soon my new life will begin." was her last thought before succumbing to a dreamless sleep.