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Nina
Viserys was drunk, she could tell. In his excitement at being soon a father and at being wed that evening, he had taken too much wine. She stood behind him, her sword round her waist, waiting for him to finish. Daenerys looked embarrassed at her brother's behaviour, but she said nothing.
Then Viserys began to complain loudly of the Dothraki's treatment of him. He stood up and banged his cup down on the table and screamed that they had cheated him.
"Sire," she said quietly, in a warning voice. He ignored her andd carried on shouting.
"Viserys," she hissed angrily, "don't be a bloody fool. They'll never give you an army now."
He either did not hear or did not listen, she never knew which one. He drew his sword and threatened to cut the pregnant khaleesi's child from within her.
Then the bloodriders took hold of him and he struggled and implored Daenerys to do something, as Drogo removed his medallions and melted them. As he walked back towards her King, Nina drew Sleepbringer and pointed it at the khal.
"By all the gods, I swear I will kill you if you touch him!" she shouted. Everyone stared. She had committed the same offence as her husband-to-be, and drawn a sword in Vaes Dothrak.
Drogo pushed last her with ease, and before she could do anything he had tipped the molten gold over his head. Those beautiful violet eyes registered shock and immense pain, and then he crumpled to the floor, gazing unwaveringly at Nina.
I love you, and I am sorry, he seemed to say. Nina bowed her head and sheathed her sword and let the tears run down her face. He was gone.
Only a few hours later, they would have been man and wife. Now that would never happen, and she would be sent from the khalasar for breaking the sanctity of the Dothraki city.
A few hours later, she was given a horse and told to "ride it where she would, but never return". Daenerys was the only one who bid her goodbye. The child within her and the one Nina carried were cousins, and all that remained of the Targaryen bloodline.
She longed to tell Dany that her child was not alone, and would have a family beside its parents. Instead she simply bowed, mounted her horse and rode away. She headed for a port from which she could travel back to the Seven Kingdoms. She had had her fill of Essos.
The child inside her was Viserys' child too, but it would never know its father. That made her angry. At least she had known both her parents, even if her father had been cruel to her. Her son or daughter would not even have that.