Untouched Gold / Tywin Lannister / Avalon Targaryen (1)

53. Grasping at Air

"Bran, Bran where are you?" NOra ran through the courtyard looking around. "Bran? Bran?" She called out. "I thought he would be here already, I felt like I was trapped in that tree for ages!" Nora declared dramatically. 

"It felt like ages." Rickon agreed. 

"Stop it," Cersei said, "stop it, stop it. Oh, please ..." But Cersei's voice was low and weak, and she did not push him away. She wanted him, she craved him, she had to pretend for her own sake at times that she didnt. She wasnt committing this sin like no other. Her hands buried themselves in Jaime's hair, his golden hair, and pulled his face down to her breast.

Bran saw her face, the queen. Her eyes were closed and her mouth was open, moaning. Her golden hair swung from side to side as her head moved with her brothers forceful movements. What the hell was the queen doing half naked with her brother?

He must have made a noise of terror or disgust because suddenly her eyes opened, and she was staring right at him. She screamed an ear pinching scream and Bran froze. Everything happened at once.

Cersei pushed Jaime away wildly, shouting and pointing, he saw us, he saw us. Bran tried to pull himself up and away, he reached for the gargoyle he needed to be far away. His mother always said that one of these days he would be climbing and see something he wasnt supposed to. Today was that day.

Bran was in too much of a hurry to get away. His hand scraped uselessly across smooth stone, and in his panic his legs slipped, and suddenly he was falling back, this was the moment he died.

His head whipped back and he felt a rush of instant vertigo everything was spinning, a sickening lurch as the window flashed past.

Bran reached uselessly, blindly for the ledge, before he finally grabbed it. His body swung against the building, hard once he got a hold of the ledge. The impact of the wall slamming into his chest took the breath right out of him. Bran dangled, one-handed, panting. But Bran's fingers started to slip. 

"There he is." RIckon remarked looking up and the wolves started to howl. Nora looked up. 

"I think he's slipping." Nora declared. "Bran! I'm going to get help, hold on!" NOra shouted. 

Bran flailed wildly reaching for the ledge as the wolves howled out below him. He heard Nora but couldnt hear the words she spoke. His head spun as he tried to find something to hold onto it seemed to go on forever and yet it was done in the blink of an eye for Cersei and Jaime. 

Jaime ran out trying to grab him but he missed his fingers fisted around the air where Bran once was and Bran kept falling.

Nora screamed out jumping as Bran collided beside her. She screamed at the top of her little lungs and went running right into Avalon.