Suburban Legends / Alicent Hightower / Criston Cole

19. Fake Castle

Alicent didn't understand her children's obsession with dragons. Her eldest son had claimed a full grown dragon. He was beautiful yes but he was dangerous because he could eat her son in one gulp if sunfyre wanted to. 

Then dreamfyre was spotted. Helaena didn't have much interest in the dragons. She liked the little creatures, but that one kept catching her eye. It had yet to its claim in Kings Landing, but alicent knew when it did helaena would claim her.

Alicent wrote to davina in dorne saying that the dragon egg she had gifted had finally hatched the 1st ever two headed dragon, and she had to come to see it.

Jace was oohing and ahhing over the dragon as well. Everyone was. It was hard not to fall over the two headed dragon. Alicent liked that her little aras dragon was so little. She didn't have to worry about her dragon, eating her daughter.

" It's a rare thing to had a dragon the masters haven't seen anything like it before. And our daughter..." viserys declared. Alicent nodded

"Poor daeron feels left out." Alicent added.

" his oldest and youngest siblings have dragons and he doesn't. Soon they will all have dragons I know it. Jacaerys egg showed a bit of life too." Viserys added.

"As if they deserved eggs." she mumbled under her breath.

" what was that?"

" nothing my king." She corrected with a coy smile.

"Terra and flora". They were the most beautiful shimmering green dragons like they were born of nature of the wild  ara kept the scales of the egg in a box so when her dragons got too big to stay in her room the scales could stay with her.

"My egg will hatch soon enough." Jace decided. "Because you and me are like this!" He crossed his fingers. "So our dragons will be too!"

"How fast do dragons grow?" Alicent questioned viserys

"Rhaenyras dragon hasnt grown much in years." Viserys offered Alicent rememberes before all this started rhaenyra asked her to go riding said syrax would be large enough for two but viserys was right the dragon had scarcely grown. Probably not big enough for two riders anyways.

"But baby dragons?"

"Can take a few years to get to riding size." Alicent paled. Her daughter was barely four and she couldn't imagine her riding a dragon by the ages of 6 or 7. "What?"

"Aegon is doing well in his training." Alicent offered.

"Good." Viserys agreed.

"What are you making? Still old Valyria?" Alicent questioned

"Yes. Eddard does a great job. Dont you think?"

"Yes. Its lovely." Alicent agreed. "You havw a great skill."

"Thank you your grace."

"You spend so much time with your figurines my king have you ever thought of taking up another hobby?" Alicent offered cautiously

"Being king isnt enough?"

Alicent went to council meetings. Alicent sat and made decisions while viserys doted on his model like it was a real live woman.

Alicent gave a feigned smile as the door pushed open.

"Can we play dad?" Ara questioned already grabbing the figurines and handing one to jace as they flew the dragons over the model. Alicent smiled taking a seat  she glanced to the door seeing criston in the entrance closing the door.

"This one can be sunfyre. And this one dreamfyre. Hey you need to make a two headed dragon!" Jace realized. "We cnat pretend this one or this one is terra and flora. They all have one head and one body!"

"My dragons could play in the fake castle." Ara countered. "They are little. Lets go get them!"

"Um aranyani-" viserys began but they were off to fetch a dragon.