During a cold, wailing winter night Harwin strong's bastard daughter was born. To a whore, yet she herself was anything but. Raised in a castle, under a promise of protection from the heir princess rhaenyra, alys discovers the meaning of family, and why she will never have one. Prince Aemond Targaryen the only person who treats her as an equal, but when the young boy grows a distaste for bastards and Alys' rumoured brothers, she begins to see kings landing as a prison; no longer a safe haven. As princess rhaenyra flees the city, alys is left alone, with power and wit, yet a woman's body. Aemond her sole protector and also her most colossal foe. begins with ser harwins departure to harrenhal and includes time skips ! - an aemond targaryen fan fiction <3 (all fanart used goes to the credit of the creators)