Daemons Emerald|| Daemon Targaryen

6

visenya's pov
i'm 17 now. my dragons are larger than ever rivaling the size of vhagar herself. i've built a strong council for myself, and peace even further for our people. i've traveled during this time meeting with the lords of the major houses. meeting with them asking them of issues that go on throughout the realm. i've had to stop daemon from letting caraxes eat more than a few due to their sexism. my father grows more and more ill. i've been scouring books on our travels. talking to maesters, anyone over seas. trying to find a way to heal him. to keep him.

i get ready for the day wearing

the crown of my grandfather on me. i dress in

a knock sounds at the door and criston comes in "aegon your grace" i raise an eyebrow and he chuckles "visenya" stepping aside. i smile seeing my brother and hug him "good morning egg" he says "i figured id accompany you to the council room" hes my heir. until daemon and i wed and have children of our own. i want him aware and to know how to rule. aegon has a bad attention span but he is trying.

i nod and we start our journey. "you do not have to do this you know. i'd never force you aegon" i tell him. he says "what? walk you? sister you're not holding me at the sword. besides i volunteered it" i roll my eyes "i mean your place as my heir aegon." he says "did i do something?" i shake my head "no. you're doing good. your valyrian is improving greatly as well as your attention span. what i mean is...i want you happy egg. truly happy. if your happiness isn't here. with this family, as my heir i give you permission to get helaena and the twins and go. live how you wish" i grab his hand and tell him "i love and will miss you if you go brother but your happiness is what matters"

he sends me a smile "i love you dear sister. as everyone knows us being apart is if you tore a limb. i am happiest by your side. where you go i go." and walks into the council chamber and they all stand as i do the same i sit in the chair that was once my fathers. my grandsire by my side as is daemon. i put the marble in its place and otto asks "how was the travels dear?" i say "they were good. meeting with the great lords has opened my eyes further and was much needed" the maester asks "did you find something for the king?" i shake my head "unfortunately not."

otto asks "and the lords?" i say "the wall needs more men. more and more wildlings breach and kill them by the day" otto says "that is nothing new princess" i say "it's worse now. way worse. it's an honor to go to the wall and serve for it. just as it's an honor to be on my guard and part of the army here or anywhere else. there needs to be more men to protect it. the men at the wall are our main defense from what's beyond. that falls then everyone else will too"

my mother says "that is just a child's story. the tale of monsters beyond the wall" i say "you weren't there and you've never been there. dragons don't cross the wall. he tried on bloodfyre many times on my visit and so has daemon on caraxes. you didn't feel how it felt up there, the dread of looking beyond. it's a heavy feeling. there's something seriously going on beyond that wall to the point it puts fear into dragons" the song of ice and fire. i was hoping i'd see one of those white walkers myself. beyond the wall but i wasn't going without a dragon. but he refused. besides tale says they're dormant right now. 

i say "we have to send more men to serve." finality in my voice. i ask aegon "what's the word on rhaenyra?" he says "the source says she's restless. plotting. laenor trying to soothe but...she wants the crown" i nod and say "her and what army?" he says "can't tell quite yet." i nod and say "as long as father lives he won't want me to act upon her treasons and wants. we will let her be" daemon says "let her be? to go and possibly grow an army?" i reply "it's what my father wants." he tells me "you wear that crown and sit in that chair and on the throne. you're our queen you have to squash rebellion as it rises not as it's already risen" i say "what would you have me do daemon? my father is still here but incapacitated. we all know he does not want me to go after rhaenyra. she's his favorite just as i am. i don't wish to pain him more than he already is. i know i should act. the world will be better for it. but i cannot. i'm just the regent right now. i cannot make that big of a move."

otto says "it'll just take a few drops of something. no one will know it's you" i sigh "but the people, my people will assume and they'll title me kinslayer. they all know my and rhaenyras dislike for one another. i will lose any support i have before anything's even happened if i poison her or have her killed in her bed. there's no honor in it. let her words be. i can guess a few houses that'll pick her side if it comes to it so it'll be no surprise to me but it'll be a small few over my large. we have more grown dragons than they do our dragons have war experience. my three, having helped in battles across the sea on our journey, vhagar, caraxes, meleys, dreamfyre hasn't seen a war but can be used elsewhere. there's rogue dragons, silvering, vermithor, sheepstealer, cannibal, grey ghost, and more." otto says "we should not give a possible war to the dragons" "i will not as much as possible. for a war between dragons will come to their end. but rhaenyra is known to act brashly and without true thought. going over options should she raise an army and try and take my throne" i tell him.