Barristan Selmy, Daenerys’s Queensguard, plots with Shavepate, captain of the Brazen Beasts, now dismissed because Hizdahr doesn’t want Daenerys’s old councilors around. Shavepate tells Selmy that Hizdahr meant to poison Daenerys with the locusts and open the gates to Volantis. Shavepate and the other Brazen Beasts know slavery will resume as soon as Volantis arrives, so they want to overthrow Hizdahr. They need Selmy’s help to enter Hizdahr’s rooms in the pyramid. He agrees to help them out of loyalty to Daenerys. While everyone assumes she is dead after having been burned by Drogon, he holds out hope she is alive. He feels some disquiet with his new role as conspirator. When he read about Kingsguard who played politics instead of sticking to their stated task of protecting their king or queen, he despised such men. Now, he finds himself becoming one of them.

Victarion Greyjoy is headed to Meereen at Euron’s request to claim Daenerys for him, but Victarion intends to have Daenerys for himself. He rescues the red priest Moqorro from the sea. Moqorro gains Victarion’s trust when he heals Victarion’s festering hand wound, which neither Victarion’s lover nor the maester on the ship have been able to heal.