DRAGONS BLOOD

The Dragon Pit 2

After Aelerys left the dragon pit, Aemond remained in the middle of the large pit, he looked at the stairs that led further down where all his family's dragons were.

It won't be the first time he would go down there, his mother was worried everytime the Kings guards came to tell her that her second son was caught in the pit alone, even Aelerys made him promise and swear he won't ever go down there alone anymore, but, it seems that his passion for those  ,, beasts" as his mother called them is to big, and so, he slowly made his way inside.

As Aelerys was getting closer to her mother's chambers, there were some Hightowers who keept givin her weird looks, some of them even whispered and questioned if Leanor really was her father, seven hells, two of them had the audacity to say her father is some other Targaryen male.

,, Vivienne, you know I am always right, and I swear it, if she isn't Daemons bastard, then I will jump from the Tower in the Old Town"

,, Maybe Princess Rhaenyra is right, she may be Leanor's daughter, maybe all of them are fathered by him, only she did not inherit the brown hair from her grandmother"

,, Are you out of your mind? " said the girl who insinued that Daemon is her father.

,, I would rather belive that Criston Cole is the Queens whore than Leanor fathering those children"

The princess hid this whole time behind the wall, she heard them, everything they said, especially the one who seems to hate her and her brothers the most, she had enough so she decided to get out and walked past them like she did not just heard their stupid gossips.

,, Princess" they both bowed, and Aelerys stopped to look at the one who hates her with a cold look.

,, You two should be attending the Queen, aren't I right? " even though she is only 8 , the little princess was way to smart and mature for her age, most of the times she was attending the meetings of the kings council, sitting next to her mother and bring far more better options and propositions to the council than the old men there, and they were supposed to be the wise ones since they have lived more.

,, Forgive me, princess, we are only at the service of the Queen, we answer only to her as she is more up in her position, you are only a little girl, until your mother becomes Queen neither her nor you are nothing more than princesses "

Aelerys felt her blood boiling in her veins, the Hightower bitch that is nothing else than a girl with no name dares to speak to her like this.

,, You know, my lady, perhaps you are right in what you said earlier, perhaps I am not fathered by Ser Laenor, perhaps I am Daemons daughter, and that is something you should be afraid of, we all know what the Rouge Prince is capable to do for his family, especially if i'm his daughter "

The Hightower girl was a little taken aback, she remembers well enough what the prince did to her brother in a tournir, and before she could try and argue more with a child that put her in doubts, the little princess turned her back to them, but she did not leave yet.

,, And maybe your so called Queen is a bastard maker as well, after all, no one here has ever seen prince Daeron, he's been sent and raised in Old Town since he was born, perhaps he is Cole's bastard with your Queen"

Then the princess walked away from them, she had to attend her mother for she just gave birth to another child. Now she stood in front of the chambers doors, ser Harwin was guarding it.

,, Ser Harwin, she had a successful birth I heard" said the little princess, somehow she knew that ser Harwin is her brother's father, but she never disliked him nor her brothers, she loved them.

,, My princess, I am glad to hear the labour was an easy one" he looked at the little girl with loving eyes, even if she is not his, he loved her as much as his children.