Chapter 06
Lycoris met Ser Laenor's family.
The son of Lord Corlys and Princess Rhaenys was someone very charismatic. The two began to speak, she in Latin and he in Valyrian, he told of his time on the steps of Stones while his children listened with excitement.
Little Luke let out gasps of excitement at each thing he said.
- "I hope I am not being graphic with violence, Lady Lycoris," - Said Ser Laenor.
- "Not at all," - Smiled Lycoris, feeding Teddy his vegetable porridge.
- "And what can you tell me about yourself," - Asked Princess Rhaenyra.
- "Do you know how to use a sword?" - Asked Prince Jacaerys immediately.
- "Not as well as I would like" - Answered Lycoris - "But when I was ten and two I used a sword to face a giant snake that could kill you with its gaze."
- "And did you finish it off?" - Asked the first prince again.
- "It was hard, I had to do it with my eyes closed" - Lycoris put the mush aside and lifted the sleeve of her dress, showing her right arm. There was a scar where she pierced the basilisk's fang - "But I was victorious and kept one of its fangs as a trophy."
The fang was transformed into a kind of poisonous dagger that Lycoris had strapped to her thigh at that moment.
- "Great" - Smiled little Luke - "What else?"
Lycoris looked at her memories, what to tell? - "How about how I found out I was a witch?"
- "Yes!" - Answered Jacaerys, Lucerys, and surprisingly Laenor.
Lycoris laughed as Laenor apologized for his behavior, she shook her head and told him it was funny.
Of course, she told of her first conscious outbreak of magic, trying to simplify and say the right things. She told of Hagrid and the hut in the middle of the sea, the visit to Diagon Alley, and her first sight of Hogwarts.
- "I met my husband and some of his siblings on the first day of the ninth moon," - Lycoris commented with a smile, - "I was lost, but his mother helped me. Then Fred, my husband, along with his twin George, helped me with my trunk."
- "And was your marriage an arranged one?" - Asked Rhaenyra.
- "No," - Lycoris shook her head, - "With my parents dead, there was no one to force me to marry, and they would never have asked me to marry anyone."
- "No?" - Asked Laenor.
- "They married for love" - Smiled Lycoris - "A couple of lovebirds who loved each other and decided to spend the rest of their lives together. I chose the same, loved Fred, even if he is no longer with me."
Princess Rhaenys patted her hand, giving her comfort.
- "The Weasleys made me part of their family long before I realized I was in love with Fred" - Lycoris said, looking at Fred's wedding ring on her hand, just below his.
Leaving aside Fred and the Weasleys, she started talking about Quidditch, which was how it was played, the players, the balls, and the positions.
Ser Laenor looked at her with an excited look at how she narrated her games and her companions. Princess Rhaenyra was impressed that the girls could play (or study).
At one point, she asked Winky to bring Teddy a bottle. As her pregnancy advanced, her body produced milk, lots of milk, so she no longer needed the nurse potion and had to express milk so that her breasts would not hurt.
At the end of the night, she said goodbye to Princess Rhaenyra's family and went to sleep.
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A witch, Rhaenyra, just had dinner with a witch and did not know what to say. She had a mysterious yet melancholy aura about her.
She spoke of her dead husband with much love.
"I was ten and one, and he was ten and three when we first met"
"We were married on my birthday ten and seven, he was ten and nine. We were only married a few months before he died."
She touched a gold ring on her fingers.
A marriage for love and not for duty.
What a lucky girl.
She spoke of the Dragon Speech and how it was highly recommended for children to learn now that they are very young.
- "Children absorb information much faster than adults" - Said Lady Lycoris - "And from what I know Ser Laenor said, they both already have dragons."
- "What do you think of the witch?" - Asked Rhaenyra to Laenor, he was rocking Joffrey while showing him a wooden boat.
- "It is very interesting everything she said" - Answered Laenor - "To be able to talk to Bruma. What things would he have to say?"
Rhaenyra thought about what Syrax might say. - "So we let the kids learn Dragon Speech?" - Rhaenyra asked.
- "My parents trust her," - Said Laenor, - "And you know as a mother she's good at reading people. If she wasn't trustworthy, I'd keep a close eye on her."
Laenor passed Joffrey to her, her baby smiled at her and she returned the gesture.
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Daemon read the message Viserys sent, as Rhaenys sent Laena.
A witch in Westeros with a dragon and who could speak to them.
"Meleys speaks to me. She mentions dear Princess Alyssa a lot."
Daemon remembered his mother, precious images of her. How her hair fluttered in the air as she carried him on Meleys around King's Landing.
- "To be able to talk to dragons," - Laena said with a chuckle as she prayed into Baela's hair, - "Imagine the stories Vhagar must have from the time of the conquest, his adventures with Visenya."
- "Moondancer would talk too," - Added Baela with a smile.
Daemon looked at Rhaena cradling her egg like a baby and felt bad for his daughter, so many years and her dragon wouldn't hatch.
- "When would we go to Westeros?" - Laena asked him directly, one hand resting on her protruding belly. - "For the girls to join the Lady Witch in Dragon Speech lessons."
- "I still can't believe the Hightower cubs are going to the lessons," - Daemon said - "They'll even send for the puppy that's in Oldtown."
- "They have dragons," Laena reminded him.
- "The second male cub doesn't," - Daemon pointed out. Laena shook her head, Daemon stood up and touched his wife's belly. - "We'll go after the baby is born. I don't want to risk a long trip. Maybe two weeks after he's born."
- "All right," - Laena smiled, - "Until then, I'll have time to think about the questions I want to ask Vhagar."
Daemon smiled, thinking of his unborn child.