Rose and Aleara took a stroll down the gardens of Meereen, they weren't very big nor fancy but there were the right place for calming down and enjoying peace.
Rose and Aleara had gotten really close; despite losing her sister, Dany, Rose was close to her to even being like an elder sister even though she couldn't quite fill the whole of losing her twin sister, Daenerys.
"Talk to me, Aleara. Are you okay?" Rose asks
"Yes, I'm very sure," smiled Aleara as they walked around, the scent of flowers in the air "why do you ask?"
"You've been zooming out lately. In the middle of council meetings," Rose start "you know we can always help you with Kora" she says worriedly
"No, Kora is not the problem," Aleara allowed herself to sigh "it's me"
"You?" Rose raised an eyebrow
"I've been contemplating on how my life is going to turn out when I take the Iron Throne" she admitted
"And that is okay, right?"
"Honestly...I don't know" she shrugs "I don't know if I should. Everytime I think of Dany and Viserys, I turn angry and I want to avenge their deaths but when I look at Kora.....I realize that I don't want her to grow up like me, a slave. I want her to be free"
"But you are free and so is she" Rose smiles
"Now that I'm here in Meereen, learning to be a queen....I don't think this is really freedom. It's as almost the same as slavery" shrugged the Targaryen girl
"Then tell me your definition of freedom, my friend"
"I don't know," shrugged Aleara "I've never been free before.....but if I were to guess, freedom is like the ocean, flowing with beautiful creatures swimming freely with no worries in the world.. unlike land, rocks that stay on the sandy shores then picked up and thrown sometimes, then picked up again, same process" Aleara muttered the last part.
"Being able to wake up, seeing the beauty of the sun rising from the horizon to the big blue sky and just doing whatever your heart desires rather than following a schedule. Putting yourself in harm's way just to fulfill what your heart so desire... that...that is my definition of freedom" Aleara smiled to herself
"But you can still do all those things"
"Not if I'm Queen with a lot of Duties, responsibilities, expectations. I can't even remember the last time I was free to ride my Shire horse Khal Drogo gifted me"
"Trust me when I say, Lea, you still can do all those things and I went through what you went through" Rose says
"What do mean you went through what I went through? You were a slave?" Asked Aleara
"No, not a slave. I just felt like one," Rose says as she looked in front till they got to wooden bench, sitting and looking at the view
"I was not from Westros as you know already" Aleara nodded "And I was a princess from my Kingdom and I never liked it not one bit. Jane, who was obviously my parents favorite daughter and my sister was the opposite of me. She was an elegant lady whom my parents kept comparing me to. 'straighten your posture' mother would say 'smile and wave. Use your manners on the table' 'why can't you just be like your sister's my father would say," Rose took some time before continuing
"I tried. I tried everything just to make my parents proud of me but whatever I do, they didn't find it pleasing to them til I then realized that that was not what my heart wanted...to please someone else. For one, I wanted to be free. One night, I sneaked out the castle and ran away; no one knew what the princess look like because I was always kept at a distance so I blend in quite well till one guy tried to take force on me but Jack came and saved me along with his friend Fabrizio , till that moment on, I travelled with them going on adventures with them till I met you" she smiles at Aleara and she returns it
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Dragon Born
РазноеAleara Targaryen is the younger sister to Viserys and Daenerys Targaryen. She was stolen in birth, abused, tortured and made as a slave. She never knew her family, she escaped and well.... had to fend for herself. I can't be a spoiler now, find out...
