𝐈'𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧 | 𝐀𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐞𝐧 𝐱 𝐎𝐂

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄 𝐕𝟐 | 𝐀 𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄

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🎵A Song Of The Chapter:🎵

"Control" by Halsey

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°11 years later°

Princess Aelina Velaryon slept a fitful sleep, and it seemed that it would be impossible to wake her up even with a blow to the head. The funeral of Laena Velaryon, her aunt on her father's side, lasted mercilessly until the very end of the day, and the girl secretly hated such formal ceremonies. Not surprisingly, she grew tired of standing in the wind for several hours, listening to the farewell speeches and sobs of her cousins, Baela and Rhaena. She needed rest.

However, she was unable to find it. She woke up in the middle of the night, her half-closed eyes spotting a figure above her. For a while she lay rubbing her eyelids, no sound reaching her. When she finally regained her visual and hearing sharpness, she opened her eyes. Standing over her was her brother Jacaerys, his gaze expressing concern, his hand patting her arm.

"What happened?" She asked, noticing that her other brother Luke as well as Baela and Rhaena were also standing behind Jace. 

"Someone stole Vhagar" Jace replied, his dark eyebrows furrowed. "Come on, we have to check it out."

Aelina pressed her lips together. Well, no more rest. She sat down on the bed, casting a puzzled look at her brother. 

"What do you mean 'someone stole Vhagar'?" she asked, skepticism evident in her voice.

"We saw her flying off the beach," Baela said.

"And she was not alone, someone was riding her" added Rhaena, in her voice Aelina sensed bitterness.

The two began to shout over each other with whispers. Aelina shook her head and rolled her eyes. She was the oldest of the five of them and probably the most sensible. She was, after all, 11 years old. She raised her hand, and the girls fell silent.

"And you're sure it wasn't Aegon on Sunfyre or Haelena on Dreamfyre?" She asked, still trying to sharpen her gaze.

Baela shook her head.  "We know how to tell the difference between Vhagar and other dragons and she is huge!" She said with concern.

Aelina sighed and pushed back the covers. She really did not feel like getting up and looking for the dragon, it could be nothing at all. Or the girls could be wrong, it was the middle of the night, maybe no one was actually riding Vhagar and the dragoness just flew to hunt a sheep or two.

Nevertheless, she stood up, fixed her dark, curly hair a bit and looked at her cousins and brothers. "Give me a moment, I need to change."

Baela grabbed her by the arm. "There is no time! We have to go quickly and check it out!"

Aelina furrowed her eyebrows, her hands fell numbly on her hips. 

"All right," she said, throwing the cloak over herself. "But if it actually turns out that you woke me from sleep for nothing, I'll be pissed."

That said, she nodded her head toward the exit of the room. All four of them followed her on tiptoe, eager to avoid being spotted by one of the guards patrolling the Driftmark castle. 

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Aelina stood spellbound at the sight of the rider who had just seconds earlier dismounted from Vhagar. Baela and Rhaena were not wrong, she had indeed been stolen. And on top of that, a new bond had been created with her, and not so long after the death of her earlier keeper.