"The tail of the blood comet has really grown a little longer. Watson has joined the khal's team!" Aggo exclaimed as he pointed at the bloody trail in the sky.
When normal horse people were cremated, they actually did not need to search for signs in the night sky. However, Dani was a woman of her word. After placing the old man's body on the small cremation platform, she actually yelled at the sky in front of everyone.
Then, the horses were shocked to discover that the tail of the comet had grown a little longer.
The comet was approaching the planet. Theoretically, it would get brighter and brighter, and the tail of the comet would get clearer and clearer. However, it was impossible for there to be such an obvious change with just a few words.
Illusion. Everything was an illusion.
However, Danny did not correct them. Instead, she ordered with a solemn and mysterious expression, "Kill the horse!"
A stubborn horse was brought over. Hmm, it was indeed more robust than Watson's previous mount.
Two warriors pressed down on the horse's head. The third centaur's scimitar flashed. A white line reflected the red light of the torch and cut through the dark night sky.
The horse neighed and struggled, but it only made the blood arrow in its neck more intense.
The dark red horse's blood fell into the copper basin below like a waterfall.
"Bring the docile grass horse over," Danny said again.
An old Dothraki warrior stepped forward. He carried a grass horse made of wooden sticks and demon grass on his shoulder.
"Astral projection!" She pointed at the struggling horse with her right hand and shouted in Mandarin, English, Sichuan dialect, and Dothraki without stopping.
In the eyes of her Karatha subordinates, Khaleesi seemed to be chanting a series of mysterious incantations.
"Mommy, mommy, coax!" After chanting a few more incantations that Danny herself did not know the meaning of, she swung her arm and pointed at the grass horse with her left hand. "Return to your position!"
Under the respectful gaze of the horses and the confused gaze of Jorah, Danny panted for a while. Then, she glanced at everyone and said, "Alright, the spirit of the horse has entered the grass horse. This will be a rare horse with the docility of a grass horse and the strength of a fierce horse. Old Watson will no longer have to worry about not being able to catch up with the khal, nor will he have to be afraid of falling off the horse!"
"Put the grass horse up. It's almost dawn. Prepare to light the fire." She waved her hand and ordered.
"Then what should we do with this?" The warrior who was supporting the horse pointed at the tearful corpse of the horse and asked anxiously.
Not only was Kalixi the Immortal and the Mother Of Dragons, but she also knew how to use magic for rituals. How awe-inspiring!
"Are you stupid? Of course, we're going to roast it over the fire." Danny rolled her eyes and said snappily.
She had worked so hard just to preserve as much food as possible while fulfilling the tradition of the horse people.
While Watson's corpse was roasting in the fire, a group of horse people outside the fire began to get busy. Some were roasting horse meat, while others were cooking soup in iron pots. Horse blood, horse bones, barley, dried apples, turnips, and Sichuan peppercorns. There was no need to add salt, and the soup was fragrant.
Hmm, I don't know if it's the aroma of the food, or the burnt aroma of Watson's meat, or a combination of the two.
The strange taste greatly increased people's appetite. Ma Min and Chora were both snoring as they ate.
Danny couldn't stand it herself. She carried the bamboo basket on her back and a basket of roasted meat, using the excuse of dragon taming as an excuse to run away.
On the fourth day, Khalasar set off at dusk, just like the previous few days. Along the way, they could see many waterholes marked with rocks and wooden stakes.
The situation was a little better than the worst that Dany had expected. Most of the puddles had been filled with water by the second batch of knights, but when Khalasar came over and removed the stones on top, they could still see the shallow traces of water.
Danny didn't let any of them go. As Khalasar walked, the water reserves were also depleted. She used the empty water bag to fill up all the seepage water mixed with mud. When they set up camp, she would pour it out and filter it.
Even though the water shortage was temporarily alleviated, after about three hours of walking, someone in the group died. It was a half-year-old baby girl.
Her mother cried her heart out. The whole group could hear her mother's pain and despair. Danny felt terrible, but there was nothing she could do.
She didn't even know the cause of the baby's death. There was no heat stroke, no lack of food, and she passed away after pooping in her mother's arms for a long time.
According to Dothraki tradition, the poor child was too young to ride a horse. She couldn't enter the endless black grasslands of the Night Kingdom. She had to be reincarnated.
The child was buried in the sand on the spot.
The group almost didn't stop to rest. Just like how they dealt with Old Watson who fell off the horse yesterday, only Danny and the mother, Niu Lu, stayed behind to deal with the aftermath.
In the morning light of the next day, Danny laughed and clapped her hands towards the sky, cheering for her baby dragon's first flight.
When the black dragon spiraled into the sky and disappeared into a small dot, Danny panicked and accidentally entered the dragon dream state.
It was also the first time she was in the dragon dream state from afar without touching the black dragon … In fact, "dragon dream" wasn't the right word to describe this state.
If one were to use the "wolf spirit" of House of Stark and his siblings as an analogy, Danny could be called a "lesser dragon spirit".
A wolf spirit, also known as a shapeshifter, was a human who could invade the consciousness of animals or other people and control their actions.
For shapeshifters, if there was an emotional bond between the human and the animal, it was easier to do this. Therefore, wolves, a close relative of dogs, were the most common shapeshifters' companions.
The person who controlled the wolf was called a wolf spirit, but it wasn't that he could only communicate with wolves.
Bran, Rickon, and Arya of the Stark family, as well as Jon Snow, the titular protagonist of A Song of Ice and Fire, were all werewolves. They had the gift of shapeshifting, which was so powerful that it made others jealous.
However, without systematic training, they still subconsciously denied and rejected their talent, so their abilities couldn't be fully displayed.
There was no need to elaborate on Bran's strength. When he evolved from a shapeshifter to a Green Prophet, he would be able to walk on the timeline of the Westeros, change the past, and observe the future.
(Ps: The ability to change the timeline didn't appear in "Ice and Fire", but the plot of "Game of Thrones" about Hodor should fit Martin's setting. The author, Martin, personally admitted to Hodor's "meme" in an interview.)
Yes, the old gods observed the world through the weirwood, and the weirwood only existed in the Westeros, so the old gods' power shouldn't be able to reach Ursos.
Jon's talent made the strongest shapeshifter of the barbarians, "Six Transformers" Valamir, wary. Then, how strong was Valamir?
He was so strong that even when he was beaten to a pulp by the red-robed priestess, he still had the strength to possess other healthy humans.
Even if fate wasn't on his side and the possession failed, Valamir didn't die. Instead, he possessed his own pet wolf.
Uh, in the end, he was unlucky enough to meet the number one shapeshifter of the Westeros, Bran …
God didn't want him to live.
Back to Arya, her Nymeria was released a long time ago. In the end, they both went to Braavos to become Faceless Apprentices. The wolf and Arya were separated by the strait, thousands of kilometers apart, but they could still communicate with each other often through the wolf dream.
(Ps: Unlike the TV series that dealt with Nymeria carelessly, Arya's wolf appeared many times in the original book. Not only did it save Arya several times, Arya also saved her mother's … corpse in the state of wolf dream. Yes, corpses can also be revived.)
Finally, Ricken, who was only three years old, could predict the future to a certain extent through the wolf dream.
Sansa's "lady" died too early. Her experience and life values were very different from those of the "Northerners", so it was impossible to guess whether she had the talent of a wolf spirit.
However, Robb Stark should also have a very strong talent. His direwolf could foresee the danger its master was in. It had warned its master several times that "there is danger", or "this person can't be trusted", it was as spiritual as a divine beast.
It was just that Robb had forgotten about the wolf when he had a wife, and subconsciously rejected the danger premonition he received from the wolf.
The wolf spirit was recognized as an "evil creature" on the same level as deviant ghosts and elves. Whenever a wolf spirit was discovered, everyone would kill it. The reason why there was such a public opinion was closely related to the history of the Westeros.
As mentioned before, except for the Children of the Forest and the Giants, all human beings in the Westeros were invaders and refugees from the past of Ursos.
The Children of the Forest were a dark and beautiful race. They were short, and the height of an adult was about the same as an ordinary child.
They had dark chestnut skin, large ears, and large golden eyes.
However, some of the Children of the Forest with the talent of a Green Prophet had green or red eyes. If such a Child of the Forest fused with the Heart Tree, they would become a Green Prophet and gain Green Vision.
That was the key. Shapeshifters originated from the Children of the Forest. They were the representatives of a lost civilization.
Twelve thousand years ago, the first generation of invaders brought bronze weapons and fought with the natives for a place to live.
One side was small and weak, with a small population, but had strange magic; the other side was tall and strong, with advanced bronze weapons, and had more people, but no superpowers.
Both sides fought each other to a draw. On the small island in the center of God's Eye Lake, Thousand Faces Island, they signed an "oath" to divide the territory.
This process lasted for four thousand years. Because the first generation of invaders, the "Ancestors", had seen the "magic" of the Children of the Forest, their beliefs were very "loose." Gradually, the Ancestors began to worship the mysterious gods of the Children of the Forest and became believers of the old gods.
Perhaps it was due to their beliefs, or perhaps it was due to the hybridization of their bloodlines (Don't doubt it, not to mention the "child-sized" Children of the Forest, Westeros even slept with giants. Their appetites were frighteningly good). Shapeshifters also began to appear among the Ancestors.
There was one shapeshifter in a thousand people, and one Green Prophet in a thousand shapeshifters.
This ratio … seemed a little low, but if one thought about it, almost every generation had one or two Green Prophets, then …
One or two "Bran." Every generation had one or two people like the Bran … That was a little scary!
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