A Game of Thrones: Chapter 61: Daenerys Summary & Analysis

Khal Drogo has defeated the army of another khal. He found that army attacking a town of shepherds and struck down the khal before killing the khal’s son. After the battle, Daenerys asks Jorah if Khal Drogo is okay. Jorah says he only sustained a few minor wounds. In the wake of the battle, Khal Drogo’s soldiers rape women from the town of the shepherds. Daenerys is horrified. She orders the men to stop and tells the men she is with to enforce her orders. They say that this is the way things have always been done. Daenerys orders them to put a stop to it again, and they follow her orders. Daenerys then enslaves the women who were raped. Daenerys goes to see Khal Drogo. His wounds are worse than Jorah described, and he has an arrow in his side.

One of the women whom Dany just enslaved, Mirri Maz Duur, says that the arrow needs to be removed. She says that she worked as a healer in her town and learned how to heal from a Maester from the seven kingdoms. Khal Drogo’s men say Mirri is a maegi, a practitioner of a dark kind of magic. Dany thinks she can trust Mirri because she just saved her from being raped. The woman pulls out the arrow. She then treats Khal Drogo’s wound before dressing it. She says it will take about 10 days to heal. Khal Drogo’s men warn her that if anything happens to Drogo, she’ll pay with her life. The woman says that she is also skilled in helping women give birth, and Dany asks her to help her when her son is born.