Trials of Fire

Chapter 1

                                                            Baelon Targaryen (27 years old.)

The woman underneath him moaned as Baelon thrust harder into her. He had to admit stopping at Lys had been a great idea. He had been traveling all over the Essos and the free cities for almost three years. He had traveled to Volantis, Braavos, Pentos, Lorath, and Quarth, he had enjoyed all the cities, but so far Lys was the best. Baelon had never been one to spend a lot of time at pleasure houses, his twin was the one known for fucking everything that walked. Baelon had visited the pleasure houses from time to time, but not enough to cause everyone in the city to talk about him. He did not want to embarrass his family by having people spread rumors about him, but now he was free from all the expectations he had grown up with. He did not have to worry about people gossiping about everything he did, so he decided to sow his wild oats.

He felt the woman clench around him as she came. He thrust a few more times before pulling out of the woman. While he had fucked more women in the past two years than he had in his entire life, it did not mean he was not careful, the last thing he wanted was bastards. While his parents had not made him wed for a political alliance did not mean that he was not expected to wed someday and he did not want to start his marriage by introducing his bastards to his wife. He laid on his back, letting the woman beside him catch her breath, this one had red hair. He had found it amusing that for some reason most of the pleasure houses he visited thought he would want a woman that looked Valyrian. Baelon did not discriminate, he liked all women, the farthest away from the Valyrian look the better.

Baelon would not pick a woman that had the Valyrian looks if he could help it. Since his fight with Alyssa, he had trouble looking at any woman that remind him of her. Baelon and Alyssa had been very close since she was born, she had always been his favorite sister and was always chasing after him. He remembered the day she had asked him to wed her, she had insisted she would not wed anyone else but him. Then she had made him promise to wait for her to grow up so they could wed. Baelon had been amused, but at the time Alyssa had been three and he had not thought anything of it. It had not been until years later that he realized that she was still thinking about marrying him. He had still been able to talk his way out of it, things had changed when she was twelve. Alyssa had asked him if they could wed the day of her sixteen-name day since that was the day she would become of age. Baelon had been shocked and for a moment he had not known what to say, once he was past his shock he had told her that they would not be marrying. Things had gotten worse from there and they had ended up yelling at each other, not his finest hour since he was a grown man and Alyssa still a child.

Things had just gotten worse from there, and at the end had been when Baelon had yelled that he did not see her as a woman and he never would. As soon as the words were out of his mouth he knew he had made a terrible mistake. It was like he could see her heart breaking, she had run away from him and refused to speak to him after that. Two days later she had left for the Vale and his father had glared at him for three days. His mother asked him what happened and while she had understood what had happened he could see how sad she had been that her youngest daughter had left. His father understood that he did not want to marry yet or marry Alyssa, but he had not been happy about the things Baelon had said to her. A few days after Alyssa left Baelon had told his parents he was leaving for an unknown amount of time. He had believed that Alyssa would return once he left, but from the letters he had received from his parents and siblings, Alyssa was still in the Vale.