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290 AC
Braavos
Rhaenyra Targaryen
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"What are you doing?" I sneak up on Daenerys and she jumps hearing me behind her.
"Rhaenyra!" She gasps and turns around after dropping her book, hearing it hit the ground she looks down and purses her lips seeing it closed. " I was reading, but now I lost my place."
I giggled seeing her whine while picking up the book and trying to find the page she was on. She and Shiera read entirely too much, well in fact there isn't much to do other than read lately. Ever since stupid Viserys sneaked out to play with some girls we have all suffered under Grandma Rhaella's extra watchful eye.
Even Aunt Shaena was confined inside just so we wouldn't beg her to take us out, why was it such a big deal anyway what that stupid Viserys does?
"What are you reading this time?" Probably more tales about Valyria, those are her favorite Afterall.
"This is a story that was passed down about the Lannister king, Tommen II Lannister who years after the doom journeyed into the Valyrian peninsula and never returned. He lost his family's ancestral sword when he disappeared as well, its name is Brightroar, and was a Valyrian steel sword." A cool sword?
"What does it say about the sword?" Daenerys scrunches her brows and flips through the pages.
"I saw a page that was talking about it but now that I lost my page I have to find it all over again." So dramatic, I smile as she carefully turns each page, Rhaella took a book away from her when she ripped the page last time. I begin to lose interest after a while and choose to change the topic.
"Where are Eragon and Shiera?" I swing my legs and hope to hear they're doing something interesting.
"Shiera is with her mom and Eragon is whittling some wood or something, he is just throwing a fit because they still won't let him train with a sword. He might be practicing with that toy bow Rhaella had bought for him, he lost a few arrows though." I shake my head, he is so obsessed with practicing as Viserys does, or well he used to practice. Now Viserys just complains about not being able to go out and do stuff, it gets so annoying.
"Let's go find him and see if he wants to play a game or something." Daenerys closes the book and puts it under her arm and holds the bottom with her other hand.
"Ok."
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*Thunk* The sound of an arrow hitting wood can be heard as we approach Eragon.
I clap my hands seeing Eragon hit the target and he turns around.
"Hey Rhaenyra, you bored again?" I nod and drag a seat over and sit down, Daenerys also brought a chair out to watch.
"Hey, Eragon." Daenerys greets him while sitting down and opening her book again.
"Hey Danny, you want to try it out Rhaenyra?" He spins the bow around on a finger, he needs to get a new one since this one is so tiny.
"I might break it if I pulled on it." He shakes his head and puts the string under his shoe and pulls on the bow with both hands showing its flexibility.
"It's pretty strong, though if mother asks either of you then you need to say it's falling apart. I want to get one that is harder to draw so I can get stronger by pulling it." I hop up from my seat and walk over after he lets the bow go without it hitting him in the chin.
"Ok, where are the arrows?" Pointing down toward the target I see all the arrows on the ground or stuck into the wooden board. He pats me on the back and walks over to his twin and takes my chair, this brat just wanted me to fetch his arrows.
I huff and walk toward the target as I hear them start talking.
"How is the book?" Eragon asks as he scoots my seat closer to her.
"Good, I lost my place but I think I just found it." I pull the arrows out and grab the few on the ground and walk back.
"I see, do you think she will hit the target this time?" Their giggles cause me to grit my teeth, I hit it last time, they just weren't watching when I did.
I get into stance and take aim, this time I will show them for sure. I let the arrow loose and it soars and sticks into the bottom of the target.
"Good hit!" Eragon compliments and I put another arrow on the string and draw it back. This one strikes close to the first but a few inches up and closer to the center of the target.
Drawing the third arrow I aim up a good bit more and let it go.
"Eragon! Danny! Rhaenyra! Grandma said to come inside and eat!" Shiera calls from behind as my arrow sticks into the purple of the center of the target.
"You hit it on your third time, congrats Rhaenyra." I spin around and smile.
"I knew I would, let's go inside and see what we are eating. Oh, and since you took my seat you can bring it back to where it was found." He goes to reject but I already am running ahead.
"Wait! Where did you get it from?" he shouts from behind me but I ignore him as I run past Shiera.
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290 AC
On a Ship
Visenya Targaryen
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"Are you excited to meet your brother and sister?" My mom asks me as she gives me a cup of water. I take it and drink half of it to help with my dry throat, all this water surrounding us and I feel so thirsty.
"I am, but are they going to be excited to see me?" I hand the cup back to her and she looks sad.
"They will, it will soon be your sister Rhaenys ninth name day and she will be surprised to see you come to celebrate with her."
"So she is three-name days older than me? How tall is she?" I hope she isn't going to be too much taller than me, Morgana is only a little bit shorter than me.
"She shouldn't be too much taller than you. I can't wait to see the water gardens, they sound like they are very beautiful. I am sure Rhaenys and Arianne will show you and Morgana around them." I wonder if we will get to swim?
"Momma said we can have a lot of fun when we get there, I just can't wait to get off this boat." Morgana speaks up from the side, she looks like she is going to be sick every time the boat hits a big wave.
"You and Benjen both, you both look like you are going to turn green." Aunt Ashara pokes fun at them both.
"Where is uncle Benjen?" Mom points to the door.
"He said he had to get some air, I think he went to go puke his lunch." I pull out my comb and begin to fix my hair, it has been feeling sticky since we got on the boat and I don't like it. Morgana pulls out her comb that has her sigil on it and runs it through her hair.
I look at the comb in my hand and rub the Dire wolf head that is the sigil of my mom's family. Mom said that the Dire wolfs all live north of the wall and can get as big or bigger than a horse. I asked her about the dragons from the stories and she said that they could get as big as a castle and breath fire and fly, I would rather have a dragon if that's really how it is.
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290 AC
Sunspear
Rhaenys Targaryen
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"What is the surprise that you won't tell me about?" My mother won't say a word about something that is happening soon. She at least told me it would happen later today, but she won't say a peep more. "Is it a new spear for my name day?" I ask with some excitement, which causes my mom to glare at my uncle Oberyn.
"Hey, I only got her a spear because she would just keep stealing any she could find if I didn't. Don't act like you are any better, you would have trained with the spear if you could." Mom rolls her eyes and looks back over at me.
"It's not a new spear, and you need to be careful with training, I won't tell you to not train but make sure someone is always watching. Also, you can't fight anyone until you are at least ten-name days older." It's my turn to roll my eyes and Oberyn sends me a wink, she doesn't know that I am already fighting with a few of the kids my age when Oberyn helps me sneak out into the yard.
"Momma?" Aegon speaks up, his soft voice is sometimes hard to hear, I have heard people say that he reminds them of our father. Mom wouldn't answer when I asked if that was true but the way she got sad kept me from asking again.
"Yes?" She pulls him into her lap and kisses his cheek causing him to try to slide out of her grasp and onto the floor.
"Stop please!" We all laugh at his expense.
"What is it that you wanted my baby boy?" she finally stops pestering him and he stops squirming.
"Can I also train with the spear?" Mother bites her lip.
"We should wait until you are at least as old as your sister, she also had to wait so it's only fair." He nods and accepts the answer but still looks disappointed. Even Oberyn didn't help when I tried to help my brother sneak out and practice with me, he said that he needs to wait until he is bigger. Is it because he is like mom and gets tired easily?
"Why don't we go take a walk so we aren't just sitting around waiting for the surprise?" Oberyn cuts in and pulls mother to her feet and I jump up ready to stretch my legs.
"Sure why not." Mom grabs Aegons hand and we head out of the room.
I wonder what the surprise can be?
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The surprise is a little girl.
"Hello, my name is Rhaenys." I introduce myself after mom pushes me forward a bit, who are these people? To my surprise, some of them have purple eyes like Aegon.
"Hi Rhaenys, I am Visenya." The girl's mom, or who I believe is the girl's mom pats her head. "I am your little sister." My what?!
"Huh?" I turn and look at my mom and she looks like she is about to cry but also looks like she wants to laugh. Is this for real?
So is that not her mom? or is she like the sand snakes and has different moms but the same dad? I know dad had purple eyes and that's where Aegon got his.
Wait, her name is Visenya, This is just like the conqueror trio!
"Are you going to say something to her?" My mom speaks up, I turn back to my sister and look at the girl next to her that looks a lot like her.
"There are two of them?" The woman behind the other little girl that also has purple eyes laughs at my question and I am just confused by the whole situation.
"You are not as tall as I thought you would be." My sister speaks up causing even more people to laugh.
