❝It is our fate, I think, to crave always what is given to another. If one possesses a thing, the other will take it away.❞ ---- Helaena Targaryen 『 Daenys Velaryon was born sharing a womb with Jacaerys, she was born to Princess Rhaenyra and 'Laenor Velaryon' though that's what she believed, that's what she and the rest of her siblings had been told. Until rumors spread like wildfire of her mother having a lover named ; Harwin Strong. It didn't help her mother's case being four of her children bared brown hair ... like the ser knight. This one of the reasons why the Queen Alicent jealousy grew for Rhaenyra and her children, causing house Targaryen to divide and leading to the war that loomed over them.』 Dance of the Dragons

(The unedited, unrevised, completely in tact first draft of my ASOIAF fan fiction Lion Astray, retitled to Brightroar. An infinitely better rewritten version is in the works and posted on my profile. Cover by the ever talented Enya @spaewife <3) LOWBORN. OUTCAST. MISTAKE. Calpurnia Hill has heard these words her entire life, the venom they held never failing to sting. The bastard daughter of Jaime Lannister, the Kingslayer, she represented another oath that he broke. Another instance his head seemed to narrowly miss the executioner's block. Despite her father's unconditional love, the scorn and abuse from the family she was barely a part of have been a constant. But when war breaks out after the death of Robert Baratheon, the only life she has ever known disintegrates around her. Fearing for her life, she is forced to flee, and in doing so finds her true destiny in the song of ice and fire.