Falling for the King

The Moutain Clan

In the South...

Arianne POV

Arianne was on her way to a secret camp, a few miles from Sunspear, to meet with the Sand Sneak. It was time to take control of Dorne as a legitimate heir.

As she approached, Arianne saw the tents of the Sand Sneak, and when she reached her destination, Ellaria greeted her, "Welcome to Arianne."

"Do you know why I'm here?" she asked as she got off the horse.

"Yes. In part. Did you hear about the tragedy at the border?" Ellaria asked, offering a glass of wine.

"Yes. A massacre. Ten thousand dead, including uncle Olyvar and many wounded."

"Exactly because of your father's hunger for power," shouted Ellaria, throwing away the goblet of wine from which she was drinking, in the sand.

"Those lives will be on my conscience, Ellaria. It's my fault why so many men have died," Arianne replied, feeling really horrible. She told herself she was giving up her pleasure for Dorne's sake when she gave up on Willas, but in those two months when he was here, didn't she think about Dorne's good?

"What do you mean?" asked, Tyene, Ellaria and Oberyn's daughter.

"Willas Tyrell. He's the reason why the Tyrell armies were stationed at the border. They thought he was dead, but he wasn't. I found him on the beach, I healed him, and he was in Dorne for two months," Arianne responded, omitting the part that they had fucked for the previous two months.

"And why didn't you open your fucking mouth, cousin?" Obara asked, but she didn't answer, and she felt the slap that came to her, shortly afterward, from Obara herself. "You wanted to have a good time, that's why. While Dorne was on the foot of WAR." Screaming the final part. And Arianne lowered her head, knowing that what she had just said was all true and that she deserved to be slapped.

"Obara. Enough," said Ellaria raising her voice. "What's done is done. But what we have to do now is free Oberyn, so he can lead us in war, and depose your father. "

"And that's why I'm here. We have to get Oberyn out of prison and arrest my father and brother, otherwise, we'd soon have the Wrath of the North against us."

"So we better hurry. I don't want to suffer the Wrath of tha Wolf. I still remember the horrors of Astapor," said Ellaria, while her daughters took their weapons. "Remember, Areo Hotha must die too, for the plan to succeed."

*****

Once back in Sunspear, Arianne entered the city through the main gate, while the others went through the secret passages.

Upon entering the city, Arianne saw Quentyn and some guards coming towards her, "Arianne Nymeros Martell you are under arrest for high treason. Take her to the great hall to my father."

Escorted to the Great Hall, Arianne saw inside that there were about 20 Martell guards, plus Areo Hotha. After some silence, while her father was watching her, Arianne asked, crossing her arms, " Treason?"

But her father didn't answer until after some more silence, he said, "Willas Tyrell. 10,000 dead, 3,000 wounded. And this is the ruler Dorne deserves? One that instead of preventing war brings it, just because she wants to have fun with a man found in the sea?"

"Husband," Arianne corrected him, "If I'm not mistaken, it was you who told me that he and I were married by proxy, and as I can understand, you found out that the marriage was consumed." And she started laughing, but her father remained serious, "And about the ruler that Dorne deserves, you must be the last one to speak, considering that you had the intention to choose as future Prince of Dorne, Quentin Martell. Who happened to be obsessed with Daenerys Targaryen, and who may have provoked the Wrath of the North."