OF BASTARDS & DRAGONS || Aenar Targaryen [1]

54 • YOU BROKE ME FIRST

Few days later, after the ceremony, everywhere seemed like a daze of cawing birds singing songs of ballards as the Red Keep was swept with mourning the loss of Lady Francesca of House Tully.

Rheanyra and Laenor's wedding were cut out. What initially began as a moment of celebration ended in gloomy night and gossip, the small folks raved on, calling it a black omen.

Unfortunately time passes in a vacuum, as a grave shock, hit the Seven Kingdoms of the sudden burial of Francesa Tully. The morning sun rises over Rhaenys' Hill. The Bells of the Grand Sept ring out in mourning.

Roach stands at the peak of the hill, attended by five dragon keepers: five Elders, five Acolytes. The growls rumbled like thunder, he purrs in agony, feeling his riders grief.

Outside the city walls beside the Black Water Rush, A throng of hundreds of lords and ladys have gathered on the mound, all of them dressed in mourning, paying their last respect to the late Princess Consort of House Tully.

The king's small council stands at the front of the crowd. The lords and ladies of all the houses who were in King's Landing for the including the Tullys, Velaryons, Arryns, Hightowers, Baratheons, Strongs, Lannisters, Darklyns, Beesburys and the households of the Martells were in attendance for the funeral.

All stood in black, silently as the wind whipped around them, waves crashing against the shores. Ser Laenor stood behind his wife, beside him was Lord Jon. Before them was Rheanyra and Daenerys held each other's hands crying as they stares at the cemented corpse of Francesa, waiting to be burned. Her body wrapped in a white shroud of separate bundles, doused in flammable material, on a funeral pyre.

It wasn't a Tully custom, but because she was married to a targaryen, Viserys demanded her death be honoured and her ashes be sent back to the Riverlands.

The small council stands in support of the king, and all seven knights of the Kingsguard along with scores of knights and men-at-arms in service to House Targaryen.

Alicent stand by her lord husband dressed in black and green, blankly not mourning, Francesca meant nothing to her, so her tears would not be wasted for the dead. Though admit the funeral she observed Aenar closely and saw his condition, wishing she could go over to sympathize with him but his appearance alone was lethal, she could sense the hostility in the air.

Aenar stood beside King Viserys himself, dressed in the black of his house, stands over a funeral bier. Aenar glances over to his brother to see him bereft, totally lost in and wrecked in grief. It then dawned on him, that Viserys indeed truly had an affair with his late wife, because the way he wept like Francesca was his wife, seemed unabashedly suspicious. His state was catatonic, horrible, eyes red, like his dreams has rippled him off his beloved wife, due to his ambitions and greed.

Once the funeral was over, Lord Corlys and his household returned back to Driftmark, Lord Jon returned back to the Eyrie, allowing Daenerys to stay behind with their son Eddard for few weeks. Rheanyra and Laenor now man and wife, still hadn't consummate their marriage, and also the Princess and urged her father to behead Ser Criston for killing Ser Lonmouth, the Dornish knight had been beaten, held in the dungeons for five days without food nor water, only to be released by Prince Aenar who pleaded on his behalf, to be allowed the dignity of being expelled from the Kingsguards and be sent to the Wall for his crimes.

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Aenar had already tucked away his children into bed, especially crying Maekar, he fed and bathed his innocent son, read him stories until he slept.

Lord Strong grieved a little, Harwin didn't. The Lannister brothers were on the move of suggesting a betrothal between Prince Aenar and their sister Cersei, but their offer was dismissed by Queen Alicent who scolded the Ser Tyland for his insensitive behavior and lack of morals.