"I see no other choice. We need to send a dragon." Jace demanded as Rhaenyra approached.
" Where?" Rhaenyra questioned.
"To support the war that your vassals have been fighting in your absence... Your Grace." Jace added stiffly.
"Im ready!" Vaera agreed. "Oh let me fry cole please! I wont give a warning shot this time!"
"Cole's host has grown since riding abroad. He raised the levies of both Rosby and Stokeworth and, with their combined strength, sacked Duskendale." Rhaenys added.
"Duskendale?"
"The city has fallen." Corlys agreed. "Many Darklyn men declared for Aegon. Those who refused were put to the sword."
"What of my father?" Steffon questioned.
"He kept his oath. Cole took his head for it." Corlys answered.
"As if that's supposed to make him feel better?" Vaera sassed. "Your father was loyal and he lost his head. Use your head corlys."
"Vaera!" Larys objected
"Where have you been, these last days?" Jace demanded. Danika turned seeing Rhaenyra approaching the table. "You vanished without so much as a word."
"Well, I apologize for my absence and the secrecy," Rhaenyra agreed holding back her attitude best she could. "but such was necessary. I went to King's Landing."
"To what possible end?" Jace demanded.
"And yet i cant go?" Vaera turned sharply to larys.
"Where is your mother?"'larys begged. He always felt strange disciplining the children especially vaera when Avalon wasn't present.
"To meet Queen Alicent and sue for peace."
" You saw Alicent?" Jace shouted.
" Yes, I did."
"You could've been taken or slain!" Jace demanded.
"I inherited 80 years of peace from my father. Before I was to end it, I needed to know that there was no other path. And now I do." Rhaenyra assured. "Only one choice remains to me: either I win my claim or die."
"We stand at the ready." Jace agreed.
"Bolt is just a little thing but he can help." Katya added before running off to play with joffery
"Cole's victories have only emboldened him. He marches on Rook's Rest." Rhaenys added.
"His host was just hours away when Lord Staunton's ravens took wing." Corlys added.
"Why Rook's Rest?" Rhaenyra countered. "After Duskendale?"
"It is but a small coastal keep. 'Cause Lord Staunton is a member of this council. And because his castle is small and vulnerable and there for the taking." Larys offered. "Ser Cole knows we have no army on the mainland." Larys hated that. While they had harrenhal they had nothing without the riverlords support
" He is brazen." Bartimos hissed.
" He is daring us to act." Jace demanded. "We need to send a dragon."
"Me!" vaera declared
"There are those who have mistaken my caution for weakness. Let that be their undoing." Rhaenyra decided. " I will go."
" My queen..." Jace begged. " You cannot."
"I will not lose dragons to war whilst I hide here in my castle." Rhaenyra corrected.
"I can go. Mouse just needs to feed."
"Mama!" Danika ran to her. "I was so worried about you ."
"Im sure you were completely forlorn and jace comforted you well." Avalon agreed.
"Our allies raise their banners for you, Mother.' jace reminded her.
" Yes, they do." Rhaenyra agreed.
"Avalon." Larys moved to her as vaera begged to be sent to fight. Avalon refused as she held larys.
"I hate that place." She whispered. "To many ghosts."
"If you die, all is lost. Send me." Jace begged.
" No. aunt avalon what news of harrenhal?" Rhaenyra questioned
"We reaffirmed it. Daemon is working on the riverlords and taelon as we speak."
"Uncle taelon sided with us?" Rhaenyra questioned
"Up for debate." Avalon shrugged before calling out to Katya
"Mama!" She squealed running forward
" I will burn Cole's lines and withdraw before King's Landing could even raise the alarm." Jace begged.
"You lack the experience." She corrected. Danika was glad rhaenyra was vetoing this idea because as much as danika wanted to help she didnt want to die in a dragon fight didnt want to lose jace either
"You must send me, Your Grace." Rhaenys corrected. "Meleys is your largest dragon and no stranger to battle. I will meet Cole."
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"I wish only to fight for you, for your claim and mine." Jace reminded rhaenyra.
"I... There's something I need to tell you, Jace. Something... I should've told you when you first became heir to the throne. It's a secret that Viserys told me when he named me his successor. And it has passed from king to heir... since Aegon the Conqueror's time." Rhaenyra remarked with a heavy breath. "I never told you because I was unsure that I believed it myself."
"No funny business while i was away?" Avalon questioned getting ready for bed when danika came barging in
"Rhaenyra is with jace and im bored!"
"My trip went fine im glad to be home." avalon offered. "Thanks for asking."
"Katya and joffrey will be wed and if rhaenys dies in battle baela will be forced to marry jace out of death bed obligations-"
"Have a heart dani." Avalon begged as larys removed his brace placing his cane again the bed.
"Im sorry. I just love him to much!" She whined. " if I can't have him, I might just die."
"My father believed that I, alone, was meant to be this Protector. But to unite the realm, I had to send the dragons to war. The horrors I have just loosed cannot be for a crown alone. That is why I must believe what Viserys told me when he named me his heir. What Jaehaerys had told him. And what I will now tell you." Rhaenyra grabbed his hand.
"What is it?" Jace questioned.
"Aegon the Conqueror's Dream. He called it "The Song of Ice and Fire"."
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Last Man Standing / Jacaerys Velaryon / Alys Rivers / Taelon Targaryen
FanficJace wanted control of his own life. To be seen as a man. Alys wanted a man that didnt fall for her tricks. One brave enough to take action. 🐉 "You are written in the stars. You are a masterpiece." 🗡️ most characters belong to grrm any mature c...
