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Dragons, Dreams, and Second Chances
BearlyMadeIt
Chapter 3
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(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
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"Looks like weirwood wood," the maester said disbelieving, pulling ever more white-drenched-red splinters out of the poor girl. Her wounds were full of it.
"How are her chances?" The princess asked.
"Slim. Very slim." Her breathing had gotten weaker ever since she got here. "But I think, maybe…" With some luck… He didn't comment on the other obvious things. Her pale silver hair and what seemed to be violet eyes when he had checked them. A Valyrian of some sort. Riding a dragon of some sort. No, someone else should sort that one out.
"Do your best," the princess ordered.
---
Pacing around in sight of the black dragon which shouldn't exist, Rhaenyra watched how he got patched up by the dragonkeepers. He had nearly killed the first one approaching. She had intervened or at least she thought she did. It didn't kill the poor man after her words, at the least.
"It's male, my princess," their leader finally reported, stepping beside her. "By the thickness of his scales… he seems to be seven."
"Seven?" She repeated. He didn't look like seven. He was bigger than Syrax in size, damn it. Arrax was closest to his age and he looked tiny beside him.
"Yes, seven. His scales aren't fully hardened yet and…"
Rhaenyra just shook her head while listening to further explanations. Seven. And that big.
"Thank you. Get him something to eat and keep watch."
"Yes, my princess." He bowed a little and stepped away.
---
"Seven?!" Laenor repeated as disbelieving as she had.
"Yes, seven," Rhaenyra said again, looking out at the beach from the main hall. The dragon had eaten a little and then refused. Never a good sign.
"We have to tell my father." He wouldn't be happy. Furious, maybe, even. A mysterious dragon and its mysterious Valyrian rider.
"Do they have an idea what hurt him?" Laenor asked, ignoring her words.
Rhaenyra pursed her lips. "They said it looks like claws and fangs. Something ripped quite a big chunk out of his tail."
"So… a dragon attacked a dragon?"
Well… "I guess."
Hopefully, the girl made it. So many questions they needed answers to. And there was the dragon itself... Some took the death of their rider calmly, not even minding. Some freaked out and torched entire areas before they could be reined in and calmed down. Somehow, the black dragon struck her of the latter.
"What in all hells," he muttered lowly, leaning right beside her, staring out at the dragon as well now. "Maybe… maybe she's from the Free Cities? There are some families of the old blood. We could ask my mother. She was over there. Maybe…"
"She heard of a dragon hatching?" They shouldn't be able to hatch a dragon!
"A girl gone missing."
Rhaenyra hummed. A good a bet as any. The only other alternative would be one of Daemon's bastards, but she didn't look like him at all.
"Driftmark is closer," Laenor went on. "We send a raven to her, and then…"
"Send a dragon to my father," Rhaenyra finished his words, smiling a little at him.
They fell quiet for a while, watching the sleeping dragon.
"He looks like Dreamfyre, doesn't he?" Laenor said, at last, saying the other obvious thing. Rhaenyra all but hummed. He did. He indeed did.
Which would mean he was one of the stolen eggs. Where were the others from the clutch? How had the girl gotten even one? Hells, how had she hatched it? How had she bonded it? How had she kept it a secret for so long? Dragons didn't exactly hide well.
---
Dear Lady Mother,
I need you at Dragonstone at once. Come alone.
- Laenor
---
Rhaenys stared at the letter the raven had brought. Checked the seal a few times. Targaryen and Velaryon. Had to come from Dragonstone, sealed by both of them. Hopefully, all was well. It didn't give any details, but it didn't exactly sound good, either.
"I hope no one died," she muttered to herself.
"What is it?" Corlys asked.
"I don't know. Laenor asked for me."
"Is he –"
"I don't know," she cut him off softly, showing him the letter. His eyes flew over the one line, a frown furrowing his brow.
"I'll accompany you. It's just –"
"No. I take Meleys. Be there quicker than any ship ever could." He wouldn't have said at once if he didn't mean at once. "Stay until I send a raven," she said softly, kissed him gently, and hurried outside. Laenor had said alone as well.
Circling over Dragonstone, she saw the problem at once. The black dragon sleeping on the beach.
---
"Do you know her?" Rhaenyra whispered.
They stood in the chamber assigned to the nameless girl. She had woken up once, asked for water, and… fallen asleep, she hoped, at least. She wasn't sure if she actually was asleep. Might be a dance with death.
Rhaenys stared at the bandaged girl. The maesters had done all they could think of, by the looks of it.
"No. Never seen her." She turned to Laenor. "There were a few girls, last time I was in Essos, but none looked even a little like her."
They had flocked around Meleys, all amazed to see a dragon, beaming up at her. If she was one of the girls, she'd remember.
Notes:
Am back! Just a small chapter this time, before Daenerys wakes up in the next one.
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