Margaery Tyrell had seen warlords before, men who postured in court with their swords polished and their banners bright, but Khal Drogo was something else entirely. Seated upon a great rug in the heart of his khalasar, his long braid adorned with bells that chimed softly in the breeze, he watched her approach with the lazy amusement of a lion watching a rabbit dare to step closer.
Garlan was at her side, ever her shield, but here, in the sea of Dothraki warriors, he was just another man outnumbered. Still, Margaery moved with the grace of a queen, head held high, her silks dusted from travel but no less fine. She had crossed the Narrow Sea with fire at her back, and now she sought fire to reclaim what was hers.
“I have come to offer you gold, enough to fill your coffers for generations, and land—fertile land, rich with harvest—for any of your men who would take up arms with me,” she declared, her voice steady, betraying none of the exhaustion that sat heavy in her bones. The language was foreign and she spoke so little of it, but she rehearsed the speech. @sigilsongs for drogo.
The Dothraki did not care for gold, she knew, but Drogo was no mere raider; he had conquered lands, made his enemies kneel, and she had to believe that such a man would see the value of ruling beyond the horizon he had always known. “The Reach has fields that stretch farther than the eye can see. Yours, if you wish it.”









