Born in Flames || Game of Thrones

Chapter XLIV ''Feeling of betrayal''

The capital. She knew this was another dream. She saw it from above, from the dragon's back -or rather, what remained of it. Ruins of buildings that occasionally pierced the smoke, as did the flames that still consumed the remains of the buildings.

The dragon led her to the Red Keep, which was also in ruins. It landed in a square she remembered as a courtyard surrounded by high walls. As she descended, she began to hear shouts and other sounds. They must have been coming from the city. She cast one last glance at the keep and turned around. She reached the very edge of the stairs, remaining at the top.

On the sides of the stairs, from the one she was standing on, all the way to the bottom, she saw a line of Unsullied. Below stood the rest, and behind them, the Dothraki. There were so many of them that she couldn't see to the last one. The Dothraki were shouting in victory, the Unsullied were merely beating  their spears against the ground. But when she appeared, all sounds began to fade until there was complete silence.

They waited for her to say something.
She didn't know what, but her mouth opened of its own accord, and words spilled out, words she couldn't control.

"Yer gronzi tirh dozgo. Yer denta ann fekh reshiso darit!" she first addressed the Dothraki. Immediately after her words, the dragon perched on the remains of the fortress walls let out a long roar, underscoring her words. "Ao issarosi hen Dārys Tegorīr daerēdas. Vīlībāzma toliot iksis daor, konīr issi iēdrosa issarosi yet naejot sagon daerēdas. Kessa ziry lēda nyke gaomā?!"

*"You killed my enemies. You gave me the Seven Kingdoms!"*
*"You liberated the people of King's Landing. But the war still rages, many people still await liberation. Will you do this with me?!"*

As if it weren't her body, she couldn't control what she would do. Yet she watched with her eyes, breathed with her lungs, felt her heartbeat.
She heard the shouts, the cheers, and the steady thuds of spears striking the ground, that those short sentences evoked. She watched them with pride in her eyes, but she felt none of it. She didn't know what had just happened, the effect of what she had seen, and...

She wouldn't have burned a city.

"You betrayed me. You swore your lips will be sealed. I should have killed you along with Varys." she didn't even know who she was talking to until her head turned and Tyrion appeared before her eyes.

Killed Varys? When?

He was clearly terrified, disappointed, and in deep despair all at once. He didn't look the same as she'd seen him, even yesterday.

"You slaughtered a city." he said, trying to sound cold, but a crack had crept into it. Then he grabbed the symbol of his title as Hand of the Queen, ripped it from his clothes, and threw it down the stairs like trash. She felt her brow furrow. "He should have killed you." he added, referring to Varys, of course.

Slaughtered a city? She was the one who did it? No... Impossible. And why would Varys want to kill her? She was only trying to help everyone! Make the world a better place!

"Zirȳla qrīdrughagon gūrogon." she ordered the Unsullied to take him away, most likely to the dungeons.

She waited for nothing more, gazed at the crowd of people devoted to her for a moment longer, then turned and headed towards the ruined castle.
She felt her thoughts cease to be her own. Voices rose, shouting that she had done the right thing, that all who did not adore her deserved only death. That only she could make the world a better place, only she knew how. The capital was the first step.

They refused to love her themselves, this should force them to. What was the Iron Throne when she could have the entire world at its feet?

Just like Aegon the Conqueror. After all, his legacy was completely, in every sense, hers. No one could threaten it anymore, no one would take it away. After all, the Iron Throne she could already see at the end of the throne room was hers. She fought for this for so long. She spent years, endured nightmares, just to finally call it her own.