A Place in This World // Helaena Targaryen

3. Falling

Helaena and Aemond looked to Rhaenyra telling her sons to go to bed that it was getting late. Helaena looked out at the fading sun on the horizon. She was so caught up in her new creature she hadnt even noticed how fast the time flew by.

''I'm going to bed, Aemma.'' Viserys remarked and Alicent stared at him a moment.

"And Aegon said I'm mental." Helaena murmured Aemond grabbed her hand.

''Shall I see after Queen Alicent, Your Grace?'' Ser Harrold asked making sure to annunciate Alicent.

''No, Ser Harrold. You have the night's watch, Ser Criston.'' Viserys told him 

''Yes, Lord Commander.'' Criston agreed.

"Best get going too." Aemond offered holding out a hand for her but Helaena shook her head. "You going to release it?" He nodded to the geode. Helaena nodded as she got up. "You want company?"

"No, I wish to be alone." Helaena whispered as she headed off. She never felt like she belonged here.

Helaena walked down the path as the night grew dark quickly, she heard her grandfather reprimanding Aegon and that brought a smile to her face as she glanced up seeing Otto dragging Aegon in by the ear.

Helaena put the geode down and watched the spider run out over the grass she followed it slowly before seeing a hole in the ground. She peered around very confused.

"Strange," She remarked. "Hello! Hello!" She called down the dark black hole. Her voice echoed, Helaena chuckled leaning closer, she called out again and she fell right in.

Falling falling falling she was falling down everything else was falling up she reached out trying to grab onto something trying to hold onto something trying to dodge out the way of all the flying objects.

Flustered and confused she spiraled down as everything was flying up at her. There were things she had never seen before lamps and pianos and then there were books and shelves and beds, everything was falling up while she was falling down.

Then she crashed through the ceiling but maybe she crashed the floor she didn't really understand the chandelier was upside down and her hair was hanging down then with that she landed with a thud on a checkered floor.

"Seven hells," Helaena groaned bringing a hand to her head.

She groaned out as she gathered herself. Pulling herself off the floor she was in a room filled with doors she went to the first one pulling on it, it was locked. The next locked the next locked the next she pulled and pulled and pulled but none of them budged and then she saw table glass table with the little key on it.

"How peculiar." Helaena whispered examining the key. "Oh I'm dreaming." She realized. "Im at driftmark." She reminded herself.

She grabbed the key fiddling with it, so again she tried the key in all of the locks but again none of them fit she pulled at each of them getting more and more annoyed more and more anxious and confused.

Then she realized there was a curtain she pushed the curtain aside to reveal the small door she hadn't seen that one before. She use the key and it opened. She tried to fit through it but only her head could get through.

"Wonderland..." she whispered looking around at the vibrant colors. She was definitely dreaming, must have been the wine or the fish she ate she thought curiously. She tried again to get through but she feared her head would be stuck until she woke if she kept trying. Discouraged she pulled herself back out looking around the room there was now a bottle on the table she picked it up reading the label it said drink me she popped the top and brought it to her nose to smell and her face cringed it was absolutely disgusting.

''This is only a dream.'' she remarked ''only a dream.'' she had had dreams like this before and she never got hurt that she remembered so she drank it and suddenly she was shrinking shrinking shrinking she ran back to the door pulling at it again.

''Do you think she should remember this from the first time?"

''You got the wrong Girl.''

''No I didn't this is the right one I'm certain of it.'' The voices said softly, as they watched her stuggle with the locked door once more. Helaena couldn't hear them bickering. She ran back to the table trying to get the key that she left on the table when she drank the drink me potion. she jumped up trying to get back to the table but she was too short she couldn't reach the key anymore then she noticed a little cake in a box underneath the table it said eat me.

"This dream." Helaena muttered as she took a little bite it was sweet she stood up confused and suddenly she was growing and growing and growing she was tall as the ceiling now she hit her head on the ceiling as she crouched. An indent in the ceiling from where she grew right into it.

"Seven hells." She muttered rubbing at her head. It hurt, did you usually feel pain in dreams? Helaena wounderes, this was certainly the strangest dream ever.

''She's the wrong Helaena.' the voice said again very confident.

''Give her a chance.''

She gently took the key from the table in her nkw very large hands. And drank more of the drink me potion and she shrunk down down down again key in hand she moved to the door. She opened it up and walked through to the other side it was beautiful plants had never seen before trees she never seen before creatures bugs she had never seen before.

"Oh," she exclaimed running to the plants touching the leafs. A bug a rainbow of colors whizzed by her and her head whipped around to follow its path.

"This is the life I want!" She declared. "Can this be real!" She begged. She thought about all the plants and insects that she could discover before anyone else in westeros. She could make a book of all the new species. She never wanted to wake up.

''What are you doing here?'' Helaena spun around she thought she was alone.

''I am not convinced.'' The march Hare threw up his hands annoyed and discouraged.

"Talking rabbits," Helaena remarked. "This day keeps getting better!"