Chapter Summaries

Danyla and her family settled plans for a tournament on Dragonstone, including vendors, security, and dragon displays. She assigned the preparations to Samwell and Medrick, then began building the tournament grounds at a site she also intended to develop into a harbor.

• Danyla proposed charging vendors for stalls and a share of their sales, while Rhaenyra suggested using dragons to deter trouble and attract visitors.
• Danyla proposed charging for dragon portraits and rides, but Viserys objected to letting strangers approach or ride the dragons.
• After more than an hour of discussion, Viserys and his family agreed on a rough tournament plan and scheduled the event for a month later.
• Danyla assigned Samwell to carry out the preparations, with Cameron Tarth and Rhaella Royce as deputies, and invited Medrick of House Manderly to organize betting and recruit suppliers.
• Danyla chose a site between old and new Dragonstone for the tournament grounds and began construction, intending to make the area a harbor as well.
• Danyla noticed that black dragonstone forged with Dreamfyre and the young dragons' fire was superior, and concluded that the gemstones in their cave contained magical energy.

As displaced people arrived on New Dragonstone Island for the tournament, Danyla discovered that a captured thief was Janna, a former maid carrying Daemon’s child. Janna explained she had stolen in hopes of escaping her parents’ plans to make her abort the pregnancy, and Danyla began questioning what would become of her and the child.

• Displaced people came to New Dragonstone Island, where Samwell arranged work, shelter, food, and a peacekeeping unit to manage them.
• Clever Jack escorted captured thieves past the tournament grounds, and Danyla recognized the silver-haired Janna among them.
• Danyla ordered the thieves assigned to forced labor before being sent to the Wall or Whore Camp, then took Janna aside to question her.
• Janna told Danyla that Daemon had fathered her child and that she had stolen deliberately to escape her parents’ demand that she take Moon Tea.
• Danyla asked Janna how she planned to support herself and the child, and Janna admitted she had no plan beyond finding work or turning to prostitution.

Danyla arranged for Janna to give birth in secret and have the royal household raise her child, then took her to the Firekiss Garden. After Danyla beat Dax for insulting her, he let her go without revealing her identity and seemed pleased by the encounter.

• Danyla offered to hide Janna and arrange for the royal household to raise her child, and Janna agreed never to reveal the child's parentage.
• Danyla disguised herself and brought Janna to the Firekiss Garden, where she arranged for Janna to work and live after giving birth.
• Danyla overheard Jason Lannister and Mund Hightower trade insults at the crowded pleasure house, then left after settling Janna there.
• Danyla ran into Dax and his companions from Skagos, and Dax's remark about her figure provoked her into cursing at them.
• Danyla knocked Dax down and punched him, while he stopped his companions from intervening and assured her he would not expose her identity.
• Danyla fled, and Dax's companions speculated that he had taken a liking to her.

Danyla raised the tournament vendor fees and arranged a rumor about Medrick before returning to the Dragonpit to choose eggs for her pregnant mother’s children. She found two ancient Dragon Eggs with strong magical fluctuations but wondered why they had never hatched.

• Danyla ordered Medrick to raise tournament vendor fees and charge House Lannister and House Hightower 50,000 Gold Dragons for the best spots.
• Danyla told Medrick to spread a rumor that he had paid her 100,000 Gold Dragons for a dragon ride and that she had held him in her arms.
• Danyla checked the two Dragon Eggs in her cave and found that the life within them had grown stronger.
• Danyla flew to King's Landing and entered the Dragonpit to choose two Dragon Eggs for her mother's unborn children.
• Danyla reached the two oldest eggs, one blood-red and one coal-black, and sensed strong magical energy within them.

Danyla took three Dragon Eggs from the Dragonpit and persuaded King Jaehaerys to let her keep them. After falling asleep beside five eggs in Dreamfyre's cave, she dreamed of an ancient Valyrian city, where two fiery dragons engulfed her and a spell for forging dragonstone entered her mind.

• Danyla took two old Dragon Eggs and a glittering golden one, then flew Dreamfyre to the Red Keep.
• Danyla showed King Jaehaerys the three eggs and convinced him to let her take them for her unborn siblings and an experiment.
• Danyla returned to New Dragonstone Island and fell asleep beside five Dragon Eggs in Dreamfyre's cave.
• Danyla dreamed of a vast city among volcanoes, where two flame-like dragons engulfed her and she learned a spell for forging dragonstone.

After a dragon dream connected her to the eggs from Old Valyria, Danyla learned a chant that enhanced Dreamfyre’s fire and forged beautiful indigo dragonstone. The craftsmen decided to revise the tourney grounds to make use of the new stone.

• Danyla woke from a dream of Old Valyria, found the dragon eggs shining more brightly, and hoped they would hatch soon.
• Danyla rode Dreamfyre to the tourney grounds on New Dragonstone Island to test the chant she had learned in her dream.
• Danyla chanted in High Valyrian and commanded Dreamfyre to breathe fire, which melted the dragonstone ingredients at an unusually high temperature.
• Danyla discovered that she could exchange thoughts clearly with Dreamfyre, who proudly answered that she was the most beautiful dragon.
• Danyla and the masons saw that the finished dragonstone was gemstone-like indigo instead of black, and the craftsmen hurried to ask Samwell to revise the tourney grounds’ design.

Danyla visited the market at New Dragonstone Island Dock and discovered the Hadak family’s grilled fish stall. After buying fish for herself and the people who had yielded their place in line, she learned the stall combined her Special Barbecue Seasoning with a family recipe.

• Danyla left the Fighting Arena construction site and landed at the dockside market after smelling grilled fish.
• Danyla browsed the market and saw the many goods and seafood sold by the refugees and fishermen.
• Danyla joined the queue at Hadak Family Grilled Fish, but the customers gave her the place at the front.
• Danyla bought ten grilled fish and gave Mrs. Hadak a gold coin to thank the people who had made way for her.
• Danyla recognized her Special Barbecue Seasoning on the fish, and Mrs. Hadak explained that her family recipe and the seasoning made them especially delicious.
• Danyla suggested that Mrs. Hadak try the seasoning on chicken, duck, pork, or lamb.

Danyla brought grilled fish home to Dragonstone Castle, where Rhaenyra’s rumor about Danyla and the Manderly brothers exposed her fear of being married to House Manderly. Viserys and Aemma decided to supervise their daughters’ upbringing more closely, and Aemma proposed replacing Rhaenyra’s maids.

• Lady Hadak gave Danyla grilled fish wrapped in flatbread and dried lotus leaf, and Danyla paid her to bring lotus roots and seeds to Dragonstone Castle.
• Danyla shared the fish with Aemma, Viserys, and Rhaenyra, and kept secret where she had put the Dragon Eggs for her unborn brother.
• Rhaenyra asked whether Danyla had charged the Manderly brothers a hundred thousand Gold Dragons to hold them while flying on her dragon.
• Danyla exposed that Rhaenyra had embellished the story on her maids’ advice because she feared being married to House Manderly.
• Rhaenyra admitted what she had done, and Viserys and Aemma agreed to be stricter and replace her personal maids.
• Danyla mocked Rhaenyra’s maids and urged her to accept cleverer, more sensible attendants.

Danyla surprised Aemma, Viserys, and Rhaenyra with custom jewelry, but Rhaenyra rejected her gift in anger and stormed out. The family was left with a fresh rift between the girls.

• Aemma ended the tense breakfast and took Danyla and Rhaenyra to her room for a lecture.
• Jarelle Mooton announced that craftsmen from the Silverwork Guild had brought jewelry, and Aemma mistook the gifts for a present from Viserys.
• The master craftsman revealed that Danyla had commissioned a ruby belt for Aemma, a sapphire belt and brooch for Viserys, and pink diamond jewelry for Rhaenyra.
• Viserys and Aemma learned that Danyla had designed the gifts, including the dragon motif on Viserys's belt.
• Rhaenyra knocked over her jewelry tray, insulted Danyla, and stormed out.

Danyla navigated Rhaenyra’s outburst, rewarded her maids with the pink diamond jewelry, and prepared to recruit knights for her plans. At the dragonstone casting site, she used a High Old Valyrian spell with Myracis and discovered it could strengthen the dragon’s fire as well as forge magical dragonstone.

• Rhaenyra knocked over the jewelry, and Danyla played the gracious victim before leaving with Jarelle.
• Danyla gave the pink diamond jewelry to Jarelle, Anne, and Bethany, while keeping the Valyrian bracelet and sensing magic in its gemstone.
• Danyla asked about Harold’s preparations to recruit three hundred men, and Bethany argued that a larger pool would help them find worthy candidates.
• Danyla rode Dreamfyre to the Fighting Arena and had the dragon carry the set dragonstone while the stonemasons prepared new molds.
• Danyla chanted in High Old Valyrian and called out to Myracis, who breathed purple-pink dragonfire over the materials.
• Danyla realized that the spell could strengthen a dragon’s fire as well as forge magical dragonstone.

Danyla discovered that Myracis could communicate with her telepathically and saw that her magic had forged a new purplish-black variety of dragonstone. At the Stone Yard, Mund Hightower and the other Reach nobles challenged the Skagos youths while considering paying Danyla to take them flying.

• Myracis asked Danyla through their minds whether she was tired, and Danyla realized they could communicate clearly.
• Danyla recovered as her Purple Diamonds released warm energy, then admired the purplish-black dragonstone and planned to experiment again the next day.
• The stonecutters discussed using the new dragonstone for the Fighting Arena Hall, which Samwell and Danyla planned to build in a little over a month.
• Mund Hightower arrived with young Reach nobles and asked whether Danyla had taken Medrick and his brother flying in exchange for donations to White Sheep Town.
• Danyla explained the fee and warned that dragon riding could be dangerous, while the Skagos youths mocked the Reach nobles.
• Mund defended his group, and Dax challenged the Hightowers to pay for a flight as the Skagos youths and Reach nobles traded insults.

Mund Hightower paid Danyla one hundred thousand Gold Dragons to ride Dreamfyre, despite Dax’s taunts and Danyla’s warning that she would accept no responsibility for what happened. Dreamfyre tormented Mund during the flight until he lost his grip and fell from her back.

• Mund Hightower asked Danyla to let him ride Dreamfyre and promised to pay one hundred thousand Gold Dragons.
• Danyla warned Mund that she would not take responsibility for any mishap, then helped him onto Dreamfyre despite the dragon’s resistance.
• Dreamfyre took off with Danyla and Mund, while Myracis followed them through the sky.
• Mund shouted that flying was wonderful, irritating Dreamfyre as she climbed sharply into the clouds and performed violent aerial maneuvers.
• Dreamfyre dived at high speed, and Mund lost his grip on her spines and fell from her back.

Danyla’s dragon ride with Mund Hightower ended in a frightening mishap, and she returned him to the stoneworks before taking Dax to see the recovered unicorns. There, Danyla discovered Dax could control the creatures and challenged him about the Skagosi boys’ warg abilities as Myracis flew to her side.

• Dreamfyre caught Mund Hightower after he fell, then dunked him in the sea when he wet himself, while Danyla stopped her from harming him.
• Danyla brought Mund back to the stoneworks, gave him injury ointment, and told him to send Samwell a promissory note for one hundred thousand gold dragons.
• Dax suspected Mund had made advances toward Danyla, then invited her to visit the recovered unicorns; Mund ordered rare animals brought in to compete with the Skagos boys.
• Dax used his skinchanger ability to calm and control the unicorns, prompting Danyla to ask whether the Skagosi boys were wargs as Myracis flew toward her.

Danyla confronted Dax about his approach and learned how his Warg gift connected him to two Children of the Forest and their warning that the Gods might destroy those who changed the future. She remained wary of Dax but asked him to bring the Children of the Forest to her, while Dax affirmed that he wanted to resist fate through their own power.

• Myracis shielded Danyla from Dax, and Danyla threatened to let the dragon eat him unless he explained his intentions.
• Dax swore to tell the truth and recounted how he had rescued Herb and Watcher, two Children of the Forest, ten years earlier and later became a Warg.
• Dax explained that Watcher had awakened Greensight and dreamed that Danyla, Dax, and the Children of the Forest were not meant to exist in the future.
• Myracis attacked Dax with dragonfire when Danyla grew afraid, but Danyla calmed her before Dax was hurt.
• Danyla told Dax to bring Herb and Watcher to her and said she would not entrust her future to the Gods.
• Dax told Danyla he had come to Dragonstone because he refused to bow to fate and believed their own power could protect them.

Danyla met the Children of the Forest, Watcher and Herb, and discussed her hope for humans and the ancient races to share the land. Their song showed her visions of Westeros’s lost peoples and the First Men’s arrival, until a White Mist from the Lands of Always Winter startled her awake.

• Danyla calmed the two young unicorns while waiting for Watcher and Herb to arrive with the Skagos youths.
• Watcher recounted how the Children of the Forest and other magical peoples were dwindling as humanity spread across Westeros.
• Danyla argued that a strong, benevolent human kingdom could protect the Children of the Forest, Giants, and other creatures.
• Watcher and Herb sang in the Old Tongue, drawing Danyla and the others into a vision of ancient Westeros.
• Danyla witnessed ancient races disappear, the First Men arrive and fight the Children of the Forest and Giants, and a White Mist descend from the Lands of Always Winter before she woke.

Danyla confronted Watcher about the White Walkers and urged the Children of the Forest and the young wargs to trust her as they sought to change their fate. After accepting the youths’ oaths, she planned to plant a newly sprouted weirwood seed beside her future castle on Dragonstone.

• Danyla questioned Watcher about the danger in the Lands of Always Winter and challenged the Children of the Forest’s belief that visions and the gods could guide fate.
• Watcher said she was not a Greenseer but had seen visions through the weirwoods, and that she and Herb believed Danyla’s birth had changed their fate.
• Dax and the other five youths from Skagos knelt and pledged their allegiance to Danyla, who accepted their oaths and told them to prove their loyalty through their actions.
• Herb showed Danyla a weirwood seed that had sprouted during the earth chant, and Danyla proposed planting it near her future castle behind White Sheep Town.

Danyla planted a weirwood seed at her chosen castle site, then discovered she could chant a spell that transformed the tree after it absorbed Myracis's blood. Watcher questioned how Danyla knew the Old Gods' ritual, and she said she had understood it while listening to the Children of the Forest chant.

• Danyla brought the youths from Skagos and Herb and Watcher to the castle site, where Herb planted the weirwood seed.
• Herb and Watcher fed the sprout their blood and chanted, prompting Danyla to cut her palm and join them as a spell in High Valyria came to her mind.
• Danyla sensed a connection to the weirwood and tested her theory by dripping Myracis's blood near it and chanting the spell.
• The weirwood absorbed Myracis's blood, grew to over a foot tall, and developed striped branches and claw-shaped leaves.
• Watcher asked Danyla how she knew the Old Gods' blood sacrifice ritual, and she replied that she had understood it as they chanted.

Danyla discovered that the newly planted weirwood gathered magical energy and formed bonds with several dragons, then guarded it with Myracis and a stone enclosure. As the tournament approached, she trained the Skagos boys and learned archery, using blunt arrows to sharpen her dragons’ ability to dodge danger.

• Danyla sensed the weirwood gathering magical energy and, with the Children of the Forest, bonded Dreamfyre, Grey Ghost, and the other dragons to it using dragon blood.
• Myracis moved her gemstones beside the weirwood and guarded it, while Danyla and Dreamfyre raised a ring of dragonstone around the tree.
• After the Skagos boys pledged loyalty to Danyla, she gave them armor, swords, and horses and had Bronn drill them for the coming tournament.
• Danyla began learning archery from Watcher and became accurate enough to hit her targets after three days of practice.
• Danyla shot blunt arrows at Myracis, Grey Ghost, and the other dragons, striking some of their eyelids and teaching them to dodge arrows and heed danger.

Danyla’s improved warhorses and the Skagos youths’ fighting skills impressed the Dragon Guards and spurred the young warriors to train harder. Meanwhile, Westerosi noble youths competed for status at Dragonkiss Garden, where the Lannister brothers mocked Mund Hightower over his humiliating dragon ride.

• Danyla’s selective breeding and enriched feed produced powerful, unruly warhorses that only the Skagos youths and a few experienced riders could tame.
• Dax defeated the Dragon Guards in combat, while Bayer, Wolf, Wolfor, Ygr, and Kai displayed their distinct strengths and trained with weapons and equipment Danyla provided.
• The Dragon Guards befriended the Skagos youths after seeing them tame the fiercest horses, and Dax became their leader.
• Mund Hightower bragged about riding a dragon and offered to pay everyone’s bill at Dragonkiss Garden.
• Jason and Tyland Lannister mocked Mund over Dreamfyre throwing him into the sea, and Mund stormed out after smashing his wine cup.
• The madam called after Mund to remind him that he had to pay separately for the broken cup.

Danyla discovered that Dreamfyre’s vision revealed magical energy and that only one of five dragon eggs showed signs of a soul. She established a cremation tower in White Sheep Town to encourage cremation, and after an old Dragonkeeper’s funeral, a soul stirred within the egg hidden in its furnace.

• Danyla entered Dreamfyre’s consciousness, saw magical energy in rubies and dragon eggs, and found that only the black egg showed a faint stirring of a soul.
• Danyla heard her attendants gossip about Rhaenyra’s failed attempt to take Harwin Strong flying on Syrax.
• Danyla proposed cremation in White Sheep Town, offering a silver coin to anyone who used the cremation tower and forbidding burial on her lands.
• Danyla used Dreamfyre and Myracis to fire stone for the tower, which was completed three days later with a ruby atop it and a red dragon egg concealed in its furnace.
• After an old Dragonkeeper from Fisherman’s Village was cremated at the tower, Danyla saw a soul begin to stir within the hidden dragon egg.