05. champions and heirs

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CHAPTER FIVE
CHAMPIONS AND HEIRS
KING'S LANDING, 111 AC
























CHAPTER FIVECHAMPIONS AND HEIRS— KING'S LANDING, 111 AC

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⠀⠀⠀⠀Aemma Arryn looked nothing like the resilient woman Vaerya Targaryen had met in childhood

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⠀⠀⠀⠀Aemma Arryn looked nothing like the resilient woman Vaerya Targaryen had met in childhood. Her Valaryian hair hung in wet tendrils around her round face and her blue eyes were as placid as the bath water she soaked in. She appeared a woman resigned to drowning in the tub, not an eager mother-to-be. The candlelight flickered across her face, only adding to the haunting features of the queen. Targaryen women tended to look otherworldly during times of distress. Perhaps, they were born half-dead and spent the rest of their years waiting for their bodies to catch up with their rotting souls.

⠀⠀⠀⠀Maybe that was the price they paid for greatness.

⠀⠀⠀⠀The princess sat on the cold ground, not minding the hard stone uncomfortably pushing back against her legs underneath the thin fabrics of her dress. Her fingers combed through sections of the queen's hair in an attempt to detangle a few of the knots that had been procured during the last few weeks of the pregnancy. The five premature deaths of her babes in the past ten years had taken their toll on her body and her mind. It did her well to speak with company that was not her king husband or her dutiful nurses and maids. Ever since her return, when her daughter was unavailable, her sister-in-law stepped in and entertained her.

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