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It's been almost six years since Vaella has last seen her family. She used to write with Helaena till she no longer answered her. She heard nothing from them anymore. The only information she received from strange sailors. From what she understood, her family cut her out completely.
Her name became a bad omen somehow. Nobody dares to speak it out anymore. So, the people gave their dear Princess a new name. A name they could say without fear for something bad to happen from the gods or the highborns. They named her The Lily. After the gentle flower they lost with her departure. The flower died even in the most groomed garden and became a rare thing to be seen in Kingslanding. It was strange, as if without the Princess nearby the lily would lose its lifeblood.
However there has also been joyous occurrences in the past years, on Dragonstone at least. Jacaerys and Vaella got married in the valyrian way and only a year later she already expected a child. The two of them were fortunate about the news and couldn't await the arrival of it. But the most excited one was Rhaenyra. She would finally get her first grandchild, she could spoil to death. Currently, the pregnancy starts it's second trimester and a small bump has formed on Vaella's stomach.
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These days, Vaella often helps Jacaerys with his High Valyrian training. She appeared to be a natural talent at it and Jace liked to make it an opportunity for them to spend even more time together. In their free time, they spend hours and hours in the map room. Translating the Targaryen reign over and over again,with the help of a measter.
"The Conquerer and his sisters sailed a great army.", Jacaerys translates with a little struggel. Vaella listens intently to his words and gives him a bright smile as he says the right translation. She then continues with another sentence from the book infront of her and tries to go extra slow for him.
"And landed at the Blackwater Rush.", Jace seems certain about it, though he misunderstood something. Vaella is about to say the word he mistaked but Rhaenyra is quicker. He tries to remember the right translation and repeats it a couple of times as a help. "At the end?", Jace guesses.
"The mouth.", Vaella corrects his mistake and flips a page over. "Mouth! Come on, Jace, you knew that.", Jacaerys sighs and repeats the word a couple of times again to remember it. Rhaenyra gives Vaella a small smile when she walks around the map table. The maester continues Jace lectures by the time the dark-haired women is occupied.
"Perhaps that's enough for this morning.", Rhaenyra suggests calm. "No, no. I want to keep going. Vaella.", Jacaerys gives her an eager look and waits for her to continue. She just nods and reads another phrasal of the book aloud. "Aegon... ordered that the trees should be... killed.", his face is adorned with a smile so wide that it is reminiscent of a child who has been given some sweets.
"Felled. It is a related word. I don't expect you to learn High Valyrian in a day, Jace.", Rhaenyra reassures her son after another failure. "A king should honor the traditions of his forbears.", Jace is discouraged by his many mistakes. "Well... unless you're planning to depose your own mother, you have plenty of time to study.", her words start to have affects on Jacaerys.
Daemon annouces his entrance in the room with a loud snap of the doors slamming shut. "Leave us.", Rhaenyra dismisses all people in the room. Vaella closes the book and walks over to Jace. "Joffrey... come.", Jacaerys holds out his hand for Joffrey and as soon as he took it they exit the room together.
"Don't be so hard on yourself.", Vaella takes Jace free hand and intertwines their fingers. "I just wish I was as gifted as you. You make the whole process I'm stuck in seem like child's play.", Jace sighs and squeezes her hand softly. "Trust the process and you'll see results. I'm sure of it.", Vaella smiles at him encouraging and gives him a light kiss on the cheek.
𝘢 𝘶 𝘵 𝘩 𝘰 𝘳 ' 𝘴 𝘯 𝘰 𝘵 𝘦 i feel like this chapter is off.
