Braavos was the most unusual and powerful of the Free Cities. It consisted of a series of islands at the northwestern tip of Essos, where the Narrow Sea met the Shivering Sea, making its waters exceptionally rich in fish.
Early that morning, Myracis had taken Hognara and the others hunting in the nearby waters and brought back plenty of prey. Hognara and Hogras, in particular, could easily dive more than ten meters below the surface to catch their quarry.
The young sea dragons Jormungava and Jormungar, both now over a meter long, were even fiercer in the ocean. Even fish two or three meters long struggled to escape their coordinated attacks.
Their hard work provided Danyla and the others with a lavish seafood breakfast.
Dreamfyre, meanwhile, whose body had grown to nearly eighty meters, flew straight out over the Shivering Sea and returned with a killer whale, thoroughly filling the great dragons' bellies.
After sailing for a full day and night from Runestone, Danyla arrived off the coast of Braavos with her Holy Flame Fleet.
Although Braavos lay closer to the North, its temperatures were much like those of King's Landing. Verdant hills stretched for hundreds of kilometers along its coast. The mountains and river valleys east of those coastal hills also fell under Braavosi sovereignty.
Unlike the other Free Cities, Braavos had never been part of the Valyrian Freehold. It had been founded around five hundred years before Aegon's Landing by refugees fleeing slavery in Valyria.
During the Valyrian era, the slave oarsmen of a Valyrian fleet had revolted and seized a large ship. Knowing they could not withstand the Valyrians' great dragons, they had tried to get as far beyond Valyrian influence as possible.
They had eventually crossed the Narrow Sea and fled north, reaching these islands, surrounded