Won't Bend The Knee

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"The dead?" Rhaenya's question eccoed through the throne room for all to hear.
Daenerys much like her niece looked skeptical and decided to ask Tyrion if this was another figure of speech, but Jon was quick to answer.

"The Army of the Dead is on the march." The younger Stark said.

"You don't know me well, My Lord, but do you take my brother or i for liars or a madmen?" Robb reeinforced Jon's statement now with a more calm demeanor. He knew that their words sounded like those of madmen, and even though Robb himself had never seen a white walker he trusted his brother's word.

"No, I don't think either of you are those things." Tyrion told the young wolf calmly.

"The Army of the Dead is real. The White Walkers are real. The Knight King is real. I've seen them. If they get past the wall and we're squabbling amongst ourselves..." Jon says as he begins walking closer to the throne, but the Dothraki guards step towards him to halt him.

"My aunt was born at Dragonstone. Not that she can remember it she was forced to flee before Robert's assassins could find her. And i was born inside the Red Keep."

Rhaenya stands from the throne and begins walking down the stairs towards Robb. "I recall the day we were told our father had died, i remember the screams coming from my mother's chambers as she saw my brother, a babe, being killed and my sister stabbed a hundred times before she finally died as well. Robert was your father's best friend, no? I wonder if your father knew his best friend sent assassins to murder a baby girl in her crib, or how he rejoiced at the bodies of dead children. Not that it matters now of course. My aunt spent her entire life in foreign lands, i was forced from my coutry, my home and see it being destroyed by traitors. So many men have tried to kill us. I don't remember all of their names. The princess was sold like a brood mare. We have been have been chained and betrayed, left to burn. Do you know what kept me standing through all those years in exile? Faith. Not in any gods. Not in myths and legends. In ourselves. In Rhaenya and Daenerys Targaryen. The world hadn't seen a dragon in centuries until my children were born. The Dothraki hadn't crossed the sea. Any sea. They did for my aunt. Cities with slaves since before Aegon the Conqueror were freed, because i fought for them. I am meant to rule the seven kingdoms and i will."

Robb and Jon were both speachless, everyone in the Room was. They knew the queen and khaleesi had gone through hard times in slaver's bay, but nobody though that it had been so terrible.

"You'll be ruling over a graveyard if we don't defeat the Night King." Robb said, he understood Rhaenya, but the Lannisters were grains of sand compared to what was coming.

Tyrion steps up to stand next to Rhaenya and speaks to Robb, trying to make him understand the queen's point of view. "The war against my family has already begun. You can't expect us to halt hostilities and join you in fighting whatever Jon saw beyond the wall." He finnished with some uncertainty.

"You don't believe him. I understand that. It sounds like nonsense. But if destiny has brough Rhaenya Targaryen back to our shores, it has also made Robb Stark King in the North. You and your aunt were the first to bring Dothraki to Westeros and to free slaver's bay. He was the first to make allies with Wildlings and northmen. Southern lords fought for him and recognizes him as a king. He was named King in the North twice even after he lost it once, but people chose him as their leader once more because they believe in him. And the wildlings trust Jon as if he were one of their own." The Old knight and Hand fo the Staek king says.

Rhaenya and Daenerys, who had also descended from the stairs, stop looking at Davos and begin looking at Robb and Jon.

"All those things you don't believe in, Jon faced those things. He fought those things for the good of all people. They risked their lives for the North. Hells Jon took a knife in the heart for his people. And the king fought the Lannisters because of what they did to his family and so his men could return home safely and he almost lost everything for it. He..."

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