Veralee accepted Jace's offer to go to dinner together. They walked in silence. neither knew what exactly to do so they just kept walking. Jacaerys remembered his step-fathers words and decided he should put himself out there.
"So what are your interests?" Jace broke the silence.
"I, I did a lot of art, like painting, sketching and that type of stuff" Vera answered.
"did?" Jace asked
"I didn't really get much time back at home. I was usually helping out around the house" Veralee explained.
"well you could start again, here. Of course you will have duties and other stuff as time comes but you will definitely have quite a bit of free time on your hands" Jace encouraged.
"About that. What duties. Know one has really told me what I need to do around here" Veralee stated.
"Well as far as I am aware. You'll be learning high valyrian. Contribute to some sort of event like a ball or something charity related. Learn some targaryen history, culture and all that type of stuff. Not much, unless you get roped into more duties with other royals" Jace explained.
"Where would I learn information on targaryen history ,language and culture" Veralee asked.
"Well Maester Gerardys will be giving you lessons on the language. And the rest you can learn from books in the library." Jace clarified.
"There is a library here?" Veralee asked in disbelief.
"yea, why wouldn't there be" Jace asked rhetorically.
"And I am allowed in?" Veralee asked shocked.
"Yes, I don't see why not" Jace told. "why do you ask such things?"
"In Essos things work differently, It seem the royal influence sometimes does not reach there properly. Not every women gets educated. It is usually quite poor. Only proper high families have women educated and thats only the bare minimum. We also lacked libraries in the Essos. They were tiny and only some people can access them. The standard to enter them were simply absurd" Veralee told him.
"What are the standards" Jace questioned now completely invested in the topic.
"A women must be married and produce atleast one male child for her husband or 3 children before she can enter" Veralee informed.
"so you have never been to one" Jace asked realising Veralee never met the standards.
"Only once, when I was younger, I snuck in, and let's just say it was not worth the risk if I had been caught. It was a small room. smaller than our bedroom. and only half the walls were filled with shelves" Veralee said.
"You could change that you know" Jace voiced out.
"Me?" Veralee questioned
"Yes you. You know what it is like there, and now you are Princess, you are family to the queen, and married to the heir of the iron throne, the next king, making you the next queen. You have power. lots of it, You could use it to fix Essos" Jace evaluated his reasoning.
"I don't think I am the right person for it, but if you think your mother would be interested, I would love to bring it up" Veralee offered
"Trust me she would." Jace said as they entered the dinning hall and standing behind their seats. "and one more thing, Tomorrow I am taking you to the library myself"
"Thank you" Veralee smiled at him, causing him to smile back.
Queen Rhaenyra walks into the dinning hall causing all chatter the halt as everyone nodded there head towards her. Once she was seated they all sat down as Alicent reminded them of prayers and everyone began joined there palms.
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FanficAfter Rhaenyra Targaryen had won the dragon dance and finally sat in the throne she was born to be in; She must secure her position in it. After the execution of traitors, including the Hightower, and the Strong - two very major houses in the top 7...
