Fire And Blood

The Legacy Of Our Ancestors

Rhaenys XI

Rhaenys was leaning against the railing of their ship while watching Sundancer chasing Arrax. He snapped at the black's tail, which distracted Arrax, who then got tackled by Jadewing. He quickly stopped his drop from the sky with strong flaps of his wing and screeched angrily at Aegon's green, chasing her. He even breathed fire in their direction, but it was weak and did not even get close enough to reach either her or Sundancer.

Play fighting. Their dragons did it aggressively but were still sensible about it. They never were injuring each other, even when being rough the way Jadewing just had been, considering she had almost knocked Arrax into the waters of the Qhoyne. They worried a bit about the fire because, first, they didn't actually know just how resistant dragons were to their own flames and, secondly, before their dragons stuck to the sky when play fighting, they had done so once or twice on the ships and ignited the railing twice. Two black patches were evidence of that and neither the captain nor the crew had appreciated that bout of panic. It had been severely embarrassing for her, her husband and her aunt to go through that scolding.

She did not know how they had managed to get it across to their dragons that play fighting on the ships was forbidden, but she was glad that they did. Getting scolded like a little child was not something Rhaenys wanted to go through again.

Sundancer dove into the river with a loud splash and reemerged quickly with a fish he burnt and swallowed immediately, just before Jadewing could snatch it right out of his jaws. Rhaenys glared at Aegon's she-dragon, but only half-seriously. Even more aggressive than Arrax – far more aggressive – Rhaenys wondered what kind of a terror she would be when grown to be ridden. Hopefully, her brother could tame and control her. She had all the confidence in him, but would also never stop worrying.

Sundancer was a lot more amenable than either Jadewing and Arrax. He had his bouts of aggression, of course, and grew bolder every day, but she doubted he would ever be as dominant as Arrax or recklessly fearless and aggressive as Jadewing. Still, he was hers as she was his and Rhaenys loved her dragon to bits.

They had been travelling the Qhoyne for close to a week now. It was a bit boring, admittedly, for there was little to do. A lot of her time she was spending with Aegon and Dany in bed, which gave her hope for the future. They did not appear to be tiring of each other, after all. Oh, there would surely be times when their passion would dim and maybe even die for a while, Rhaenys was sure of it, but she had hope that they would never tire of each other. Dany had stolen her heart effortlessly already and she would not want to miss her aunt from her life. Aegon, on the other hand, had rather grown on her. Rhaenys knew that they still had issues, but she also knew that if anything were to ever happen to him, she would not survive it. He was her little brother, he was her family. He was her husband and he would father her children one day. No matter if their passion for each other would ever begin to dwindle, she was so emotionally attached to Dany and Aegon by now and she had hope that they felt the same way about her. She had true hope that they would never tire of each other.

"Magnificent beasts, them dragons." A sudden and rather unfamiliar voice next to her pulled her quite rudely from her thoughts.

Rhaenys glanced to her side and saw that it was one of the galley captain's crew; a short and muscular man with long and wavy hair. His tunic clung to his torso like a second skin and his hair was long, wavy and coloured a mossy green, same as his pointy and long chin beard. The sailor's dark eyes shone with obvious desire.

He had nothing on her husband and his gaze made her skin crawl with millions of invisible bugs.

"They are not beasts," she told him coolly in her most queenly tone. "They are Queen Daenerys's children, hatched with Fire and Blood – literally. Beasts cannot think for themselves. They can."