A Dragon's Mercy

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Johanna stares at the Lady Arryn who is panting as she looks back at the Queen, the presence of Ser Sebastian seemed to have faded to the backs of their minds as they come to terms with the words that the Lady Arryn had spoken.

"Send a raven, my private raven to Dragonstone with their warning." Johanna looks at Ser Sebastian who bows his and leaves the Queen's chambers reluctantly as he did not wish to leave her after hearing what the Lady Tyrin had just told them.

When the doors have closed behind him Johanna leaps to her feet as she paces the length of the chamber as Lady Tyrin watches her nervously.

"Where is the Lord Otto?" Johanna questions as she glances at her Arryn Lady who opens her mouth "Answer me. Where is my Lord Hightower?"

"I-His chambers I would guess," Lady Tyrin stutters back, but her answer does not please the Queen who shakes her head.

"You guess or you know?"

"I am unsure-"

"Find him and send it to me. And my children, send them to my side as well," Johanna commands the Lady who bows her head as she quickly picks up her skirts and leaves the Queen's chambers.

The Queen looks around her nervously as she puts a hand to her forehead and another to her waist as she mutters to herself. If someone walked into the chambers they could have thought she was mad, which is what she felt like in that moment.

"Mother?" comes Aemond's voice as he leads Rhaena into the chambers of his mother who swings around to look at her children who blink surprised as she rushes to their sides and hugs them tightly before she pulls back as she puts a hand to their cheeks. 

"Mother what has upset you?" Rhaena asks her Mother nervously as she watches her mother rush around her chambers as she pushes several dresses into a bag. "Mother?"

"Pack your things, we are leaving the capital to rejoin your siblings and Father," Johanna glances at her children who glance at each other. Noticing they are not moving Johanna sighs as she halts her movements as she looks at her children "The King, your lord step-father has expressed his wish to have me killed and I am unsure if that desire extents to you both."

Aemond and Rhaena clutch at each other alarmed at the sentence that comes from their mother who waves for them to mvoe.

"Pack your things!" she cries, "Put them into anything you can find then put them into the secret hallways. Leave them there while I have a boat brought from Dragonstone and a smaller one to wait for you at the secret dock in the rocks."

Aemond and Rhaena nod as they listen to their mother closely. "You leave anything that you shall not need such as paper quills anything like that, but take any correspondence with Dragonstone, your siblings, father anything that suggests where we may go. Take winter clothing so he might think we have gone to Mycella."

"Yes Mother," Aemond nods as he turns and walks to the doorway as Rhaena pauses as she looks at her Mother.

"They will notice," Rhaena tells her mother who looks at her "They will notice if all three of our clothing vanishes. We should put the correspondence into bags and put that away first then slowly over two or three days should our clothing vanish. Winter first, for they will not notice but the summer they will so we should leave that until the day we leave."

"What if the King acts before-" Johanna starts as her daughter soothes her mother's nerves.

"He would not, he if he has any thought or reason will wait until the Lady Tyrin forgets or it is not as so fresh in her mind." Rhaena tells Johanna who pauses before she nods.

"Very well, but pack everything you think they would not miss. We leave in two days at the latest. Winter clothing and correspondence is to be put away tonight with any Targaryen family jewels for he may destroy them when he realises and I will not allow him this victory."

"Yes Mother" Rhaena bows her head as she joins her brother in leaving their Mother's chambers as she watches them leave with terror in her eyes as she watches her twins leave.

"I will not allow any harm come to you or your siblings," Johanna whispers down to her stomach as she runs a hand over it where her newest child is growing.


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