The next day Rhaelys stood in her bed chambers drinking a glass of wine when Aisha arrived.
"You sending me away. Why?"
"To protect you." Rhaelys answered simply.
"I don't need protection."
"Yes you do. Look at what happened to your sister. I will not have it happen again."
"I'm not Aelea mother. You can't just send me away to Dorne of all places. I don't know anyone there."
"You know Aegon, his your uncle, he will keep you protected."
"But-" Aisha starts only to be interrupted
"No buts Aisha! I will not lose anymore children. I have grieved all the loved ones I can."
"She was my sister, mother. Aelea might have been your daughter but she was my sister, my twin sister. And unlike you and your twin we loved each other."
"I loved my sister, more than anything. Of course there were moments when I felt jealousy perhaps even hatred but I loved her."
"Mother.."
"And now she plans to usurp me, she kills my child and grandchild and I'm suppose to what, watch her take all of you away? No I will not do it. You are going to Dorne."
"What of my dragon?"
"Take her and the smaller ones. If all comes to ruin, you will bear our hope for the future."
"Mother." Aisha says before leaving. Rhaelys hates having to send her family away, but she has no choice, not if she wants to see them alive.
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Daemon stood at the window with Criston and Aeron at his side. It came as a shock to Rhaelys when she saw the two men conversing once, but it seemed as they had put their differences aside seen as they serve one queen.
Otto entered the room enraged. "What have you done?"
Daemon turned to face him. "What?"
"The rat catchers." Otto said.
"Oh, we had them hanged. We served the queens justice." Daemon said.
"The maggot who took my son and sister confessed to an accompliss."said Aeron.
"He could not say for certain who it was, so.." Daemon continued.
"Idiots." Otto shouted.
"Beware how you speak to your king my Lord." Criston says stepping forward.
"He's the king consort and He is a fool, no he's worse than a fool he murdered innocent men."
"And one guilty one." Daemon said.
"And hanged them from the wall of the city for all to see." Otto continued.
"Plot against the crown and we will pay it back a hundred times." Daemon stated. Aeron walks over to the table which has wine and pours him a cup before taking a sip of it.
"They are fathers and brothers and sons and their wives and children gather now at our gates to weep and curse your name."
Otto moves to shut the door and turns to Aeron.
"With your child's and sister's blood we bought their approval. We made a bitter sacrifice for the deprivations to come and you've thrown it all away. After all we've done. Thoughtless, feckless, self-indulgent." The last words aimed at Daemon.
"At least we did something. We have not answered injury to the crown with what, wailing, carrying favor with the fish wives? I will not be thought weak." Aeron said.
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The Dragon Queen
FanfictionBeing 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...
