Aelora: The Magnificent

Chapter 30

After the incredible heroic deed Queen Aelora and her companions had performed, she took them all to the forest to be taken care of. All the women and children who had been taken away by all the men were completely overwhelmed with joy to come back to safe and friendly arms again. Many women and little girls had been completely abused and treated much more cruelly. Aelora wanted to know how bad they looked and with this she would make Lord Willem Blackwood pay dearly for it. And she would think of some way to have this offered to him personally. But right now she was needed by her people. But even if she had managed to free these people, there are more people out there who are being mistreated and if she knows Garrett as well as before, he will send more men after her and surely cause more chaos to catch her attention. But Aelora wants him to extend his exploits to her so she can put an end to his paid power that can give him what he wants from his plans and ideas. But Aelora senses that he wants something bigger than what he's doing right now. Especially when she knows he's raising an army, the question is more what's he going to do with another army? But Aelora's people need their privileges back too, which were stolen at Garrett's expense. And his men stole everything for their own exploits too, simply because they wanted to. But Aelora intends to take everything back from the poor again. Therefore, Aelora intends to order her outlaws to be sent away to take back their things, animals and food that they need to live. First, some people told her that Garrett's men had blocked several meters of the border itself at Stone Hedge, which Aelora then understood was of course all Garrett's idea to do so to limit the country from all the other vassals and Lord Willem could fight with Bracken in peace in the meantime. And since people had relatives all over the Riverlands, they haven't heard anything about them, which means Garrett has probably sent all his men all over the country so that no one could escape his clutches, which makes Aelora think again about Garrett's ambitions. Did he want to take over the country somehow or has Lord Willem agreed to this as well? Anyway, during the coming day, Aelora thought that she and her brother would fly their dragons over to Stone Hedge and unblock the blockade that Garrett's men had made. She and Aemond rose early and walked through the forest, looking for their morning-tired dragons. Aelora had asked Monford to take a large group of his men and go around the lands he knew and take care of Garrett's followers for gone and take back everything that is theirs. While he does that, she and her brother set off on their mission and intend to burn down the blockade. Vermthor and Vhagar heard the sound of feet walking on the branches through the forest and opened their eyes and they immediately saw who they were and Vhagar yawned big in the morning and Vermithor shook and stretched his neck after the comfortable sleep he had. But he would have preferred to sleep in his cave he found earlier. Aelora chuckled when she saw how angry he looked in his eyes and knew why. Aemond patted Vhagar easily and climbed up immediately without hesitation. Aelora felt unsure if Vermithor was rested or not, she did not want to push her dragon too much. Essos was during tough and hard years for him. 

"Jump up, and we will finally leave." Aemond called down from his saddle. 

Aelora patted Vermithor and began to climb up. Vermithor looked after her. Aelora sat down and buckled herself in and Vermithor awaited her order. Aemond shouted his order and Vhagar spread her wings and jumped up and flew into the air, Vermithor looked and growled at Aelora and wondered when he would take off into the air. Aelora felt that she had to at least give it a try. 

"Fly Vermithor! Speed ​​up!" Aelora told him and Vermithor lifted his legs and wings and roared out a roar of joy and just lifted himself straight up into the sky and followed Vhagar. Now Aelora and Aemond headed for Stone Hedge.

Vermithor was very alert and rested after only a couple of days. But Vermithor maybe got what he needed during that time. Rest and a good meal maybe. It took a while to get to Stone hedge, but Aelora just felt that instead of checking out the whole area, Aelora thought it would be better to just devour everything in fire. But when they arrived with their dragons in the air above all the men, the dragon riders flew around everything like eagles to seize the land in the best way possible. Both of them saw that everyone was scared and dragon after them. Everyone knows that fire takes everything in its path. Aemond flew with Vhagar lower down to the fields and called out Dracarys and Vhagar started spraying fire directly over everything in its path and people turned to ashes at once.