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ILLYRIO (cont'd)
Highest of the highborn, daughter of the past king, sister to the future king... he’ll want her. VISERYS I suppose. The savages have queer tastes. Boys, horses, sheep... ILLYRIO Best not suggest this to Khal Drogo.
VISERYS Do you take me for a fool?
Magister Illyrio gives a slight bow.
ILLYRIO I take you for a king. Kings lack the caution of common men. My apologies if I have given offense.
He claps his hands and a SLAVE BOY wearing a brass collar, crouched in the corner of the litter, hurries over to refill Illyrio’s wine glass.
VISERYS I know how to play a man like Drogo. I give him status-- (nodding at Dany) -- and he gives me an army.
His fingers toy with the hilt of his sheathed sword.
VISERYS I could sweep the Seven Kingdoms with ten thousand Dothraki screamers behind me. The people will be with us. They cry out for their true king.
Viserys pauses and gives Illyrio an anxious look.
VISERYS They do, don’t they?
ILLYRIO (an amiable salesman)
All across the Kingdoms, men lift secret toasts to your health. Their women sew dragon banners in hope of your return from across the water. (shrugs) Or so my agents tell me.
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