Rhaelys stood next to her children and siblings, all focused on the pyre in front of them. None of them heard what the septon had said. As the septon finished Rhaelys step forward.
Rhaelys turned to look at Rhaenyra, who didn't meet her eye. Rhaelys looked back to Viserys. She took a shakey breath in, tears pooling her eyes.
"Dracarys Vermithor"
Verimithor stepped closer before burning the pyre. Everyone watched as the late king burned. The tears finally falling from Rhaelys's eyes.
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Rhaelys sat on a chair watching everyone. She felt numb. The entire day had exhausted her, all the fake pleasantries and fake smiles, all the people that gave their sympathies and condolences, it all exhausted her.
Daemon approached her. He sat down on a chair. "Rhaelys."
Rhaelys turned to him. "Daemon."
"I want to come home now. Please. You need me." Daemon said.
Rhaelys nods her head slowly. "I do. I need you. I think it's time you came home."
Daemon let out a relieved breathe. He looked at her and saw the state she was in. He pulled her hand and caressed it, offering some kind of comfort.
Rhaenys walked over to the couple. "My condolences to you Rhaelys. Your father my cousin possessed a kind heart, something that you have as well. You will make a fine queen."
"Thank you, princess." Rhaelys sends her a smile.
As the day came to a close many of the attendants had been escorted to their chambers for the night.
Rhaelys was walking through the corridors when she noticed the door to the throne room was open. She looked around and saw no one.
She entered and saw Rhaenyra standing at the door of the throne. Rhaelys walked closer to her sister.
Rhaelys noticed tears leaving her sister's eyes.
"His truly gone." Rhaenyra whispered.
"Yes he is."
"I miss him."
Rhaelys looks down. "I do to."
The two women stood in silence before Rhaelys broke it.
"Do you blame yourself?"
"What?"
"Well its quite common in this situation for a person to feel some kind of....guilt."
"What situation?"
"The accident."
"What accident?"
"Where you gave him to much of the poison. It took the maesters a while to find out what it was you gave him, but they did. The long goodbye. But this wasn't the first time you gave him poison was it?"
"Are you mad?"
"It started when he allowed you to sit in the small council. I mean you had gotten rid of Otto, had him replaced. Then you tried to convince father that you were the better option as heir, but he refused you. So you poison him, am I right?."
"What you speak is treason."
"I'm speaking the truth as I see it. I didn't want to believe it but I had spies watching, reporting back. I know that you are trying to get allies. I know everything and I have prove."
Rhaenyra tried to leave the throne room when Ser Harrold entered and caught her.
Rhaenyra tried fighting against his hold. "Let go. Let go, I command you."
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The Dragon Queen
أدب الهواةBeing a twin in a royal family, people expect you to be loved. But Rhaelys was not, well at least not by her father and she blamed her sister for it all. Ambition for a son killed her mother. Desperation for an successor made her heir. But a power...
