Castles Crumbling / Helaena Targaryen/ Taelon Targaryen

2. Mountain

When taelon was 16 and calla 14 they were finally wed.

Viserys was glad that taelon seemed to love his bride unlike daemon who had fled the vale not ever bothering to seal their union.

They fell pregnant quickly and lost the babe quicker. But again they tried and had twins. Neither survived more than a moon out of womb. Taelon was beside himself. The children were weak from the start and he didn't understand why.

"Is it me?" taelon questioned Viserys. "I have heard of... Maegors children-"

"Dont." Viserys begged. 'Dont do that to yourself."

"But the children..." Taelon wanted a child, he wanted Calla to have a child, a little girl perfect like her. "Is it me?"

"It could be her, you know Aemma and i have struggled to keep a child to term." Viserys reminded him.

"Yes but..." Taelon hesitated.

"What? Speak your mind, I'm here for you." viserys assured.

"You are old, Vis." Taelon whined. "Calla and I are young. We should be able to have many children."

"And you will, one day, I know it." Viserys assured.

"We will wait." Taelon assured Calla. He wondered if it was him. He remembered reading of maegor and how his children were all stillborn. That they came out mutated even. He wondered if he had that awful gene and he wouldn't be able to have children.

"Its my fault, it must be." Calla whimpered. "I'm so sorry Taelon."

"No, its not your fault, its neither of us, if anything its my stupid Targaryen genes." He assured holding her.

"I want a baby, Taelon." Calla whimpered.

"Me too," Taelon agreed. "But its not worth your health, your safety, I would rather have you for a hundred years and no children, then a dozen children without you."

Valuing their time together over a possible children, they might have they strengthened their bodies and minds. Calla did yoga every day with the sunrise. Taelon smiled watching her move in her night dress sometimes she wore nothing at all letting the sun wash over her pale skin.

"Join me." Calla requested reaching out for him. Their bodies had changed a lot in the years that followed their marriage and the many lost babes but taelon still looked at calla like she was a goddess sent to westeros just for him.

"Okay, let's begin today on all fours." Calla instructed "Take your time, my love i know you are new at this." Taelon chuckled peeling off his shoes. "come on down to the ground. Start to deepen your breath. And when you're ready we're gonna start with some movement in the rib cage. Slow circles." Taelon watched her torso move her ribs protrude as she moved.

"Go ahead and reverse the circle. Checking in with the shoulders, the hips. You can start to improvise a little bit here. Finding movement that feels good." Calla added. Taelon chuckled with a shimmy.  "Maybe bumping the hips a little left to right." She nudged him. Taelon smirked biting his lip.  "Finding soft easy stretches. Continuing to gently deepen your breath." She took a deep breath and taelon copied her.  "And then when you're ready, curl your toes under and raise up!" Taelon smacked her ass as she got to her feet. Calla giggled swstting a hand playfully at him.

"What next gorgeous?" Taelon questioned. "Im eager to learn."

"You always are." Calla agreed. Taelon was always eager to join in anything made her happy. He learned about flowers and birds for her. He drew a garden on the chamber walls because he knew it would make her smile. He was perfect and all he wanted was her. "So bend your knees, inhale to look forward.  Exhale, come to the top of your space. You can baby step. You can hop. You can float."

"Float?" Taelon watched her seemingly levitate to the top of the rug. "Sexy." Taelon purred.

"Thank you hunny." Calla answered. "Now bring your feet hip width apart, toes pointing forward. And Standing Forward Fold...  Relax the weight of your head. Breathing into all four sides of the torso. Slowly draw your hands to your waist now." She did as she instructed and taelon followed her lead watching her night dress shift and glide against her.  "Ground through the feet, bend your knees. Inhale in. And then draw the shoulder blades together, elbows back to rise up into Mountain with hands on waist." Calla added. Taelon copied her.  "Boom. Power posture." Calla declared taelon laughed out grabbing her and spinning her around.

" that was simply exhausting. I think we need to go back to bed."