The cloaked girl in white ● After The Dance

Chapter fourty

CHAPTER FOURTY

A loud scream pulls Vis out of her slumber and into a woken state. When she sits up, she is first certain that she is just dreaming, but when she hears it again, she gets up quickly.

Before she went to bed, the maid had come in and cleared the table. She had returned quite later with some clothes and helped her get into her night gown and rebraided her hair on a braid that stretched from the crown of her head and collected the hair into a single one all the way to the bottom.

She grabs her robe as she rubs her eyes slightly but isn't able to close the robe as it doesn't fit over her belly. She steps over to the door and checks if it'd locked. It is not, so she pushes it open, expecting to find guards outside.

But the hallway is empty and quiet besides the fact that she can still hear quite much sound coming from a door further down. She wonders if it's Heleana who is dreaming again, as she is pretty certain that this is the hall her chamber was in. When another loud yell is coming from the room that belongs to the door she's by, she looks around to see if anybody is gonna notice if she checks. Worst case scenario it is some random person she can tell to shut the fuck up.

The door is screeching slightly as she opens it. When she sees the light on the bedside table she also sees who is having the night terror. She sighs loudly, knowing that she probably should just leave it alone, but then that means that she will need to listen to it.

She sighs again, rushing over to the bed. He is clearly having some sort of night terror because his whole body is tense and shifting around. She jumps when he yells again but reaches over to grab his shoulder to try shaking him awake. "Aegon, wake up!"

When he does open his eyes, they almost look like he is seeing a ghost. Clearly, in panic from waking up in that matter. Vis sits down beside him who has dragged himself away from her as if he is scared of her.

"You're having a nightmare." She reassures him, her hand reaching out to hold his again.

"You're alright, see, it's just me." Her voice is quiet and soft as she doesn't want to scare him some more. When he finally seems to realize that he has just woken up and that it's just Vis sitting there, he seems to calm down quickly.

"D- did I wake you?" He licks his lips before rubbing his face with his hands. "Well, yes, you were screaming like a mad man."

Vis watches as the man she once were so scared of, now almost seems scared of her. He pulls his sheet further over himself and Vis let's go of his hand.

"What were you dreaming of?" She sits up slightly, flinching a little as there now is movement in her belly.

"You woke the baby too, it seems." She chuckles slightly as she puts her hand on her belly. Aegon looks over at her, sighing as he sits up.

"I don't want to talk about it." He mumbles, watching her push her hand into the side of her bump slightly.

"Must have been quite bad. You sounded like you were dying or something." She shifts slightly and turns a bit more towards him before she reaches for his hand and pulls it towards her, placing it on her belly, then guiding the fingers until she feels the baby move.

"There, can you feel it?" A big grin on her face. "It's such a weird feeling. You have no idea."

Aegon just stares at his hand on her belly. He did feel the movement, and it was odd to know that there was a baby in there.

"I'm sorry I woke you." He mumbles as he pulls his hand away from her belly.

"It's alright." She insures him. "Are you sure you don't want to talk about it?"
Even though their night had ended quite badly earlier, she knew there must have been a reason why he had such a nightmare that he was screaming from the top of his lungs. And she wanted to make sure that he was alright, much because it would make it easier for her to go back to bed later, knowing that he might sleep better.