FIRE CANNOT KILL THE DRAGON. and, so it seems, neither can being mauled by the oldest known dragon and plummeting into a raging tempest. lucerys velaryon washed up on the shore of storm's end. he's mangled, practically torn apart. but he's alive. he has two problems, however: one, being that he's washed up deep in enemy territory, and he has no dragon to carry him home. second of all, he's discovered by house baratheon, and it isn't long before plans are made to whisk him away to king's landing, to be queen alicent's little insurance policy. she plans to use luke against his own mother, forcing rhaenyra to choose between her son and her crown. his uncles do not make king's landing an agreeable place for luke, even while he's practically bedridden, unable to walk. worse still, alicent blatantly foists a little spy on him - the sister of jason and tyland lannister - hoping to pick up tidbits about his mother. she's kind; she tends his wounds with a gentleness the maesters lack, but he refuses to allow himself to trust her. even as it becomes apparent he is not the only forced into this.
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