Reasons To Keep Living
(Location: Brindleman camp)
(Time: Morning, During Jon's journey to the mountains)
(3rd person)
As the brindlemen start to drift off to sleep after engaging in their usual nightly savagery, Sansa and Rhaenys are still being held captive in the cage and Sansa can be seen trying to summon flames from her hands as Rhaenys insists she is able too.
"Come on Sansa, I know you're able to do it" Rhaenys pleas as she rubs Sansa's shoulders.
Sansa huffs and puts her hand down "Rhaenys I'm not a Targaryen I don't have whatever weird connection you do to fire" Sansa says as she shakes Rhaenys off her shoulder.
'After spending so much time together I'm still not used to how touchy she is with me' Sansa thinks to herself watching Rhaenys smirk and crawl back over to her.
'Or the teasing' she adds as she prepares herself for Rhaenys usual behaviour.
"You're a Stark though, no?" Rhaenys begins to say as she coils herself around Sansa once again.
"Starks have wargs do they not, so you definitely have some magic in you, I can feel it" she says as she puts her hand over Sansas breast as she tenses.
"S-stop" Sansa says weakly feeling helpless in the elder girls grasp.
"Ah little Sansa it's so cute when you get embarrassed" Rhaenys says before letting go and sitting beside her.
"Okay it's obvious you're not like me, maybe you can do something else" Rhaenys says as she holds her legs to her chest.
She then gets on her knees and leans over giving Sansa a view of her shapely backside as the rags she wore didn't hide much, she then quickly grabs something, turning around back to Sansa she has a rat in her hands.
"Try warg into this" Rhaenys says as she holds the rat still.
Huffing Sansa decides to humour the former princess and concentrates on the rat.
After a few minutes of nothing happening she's interrupted by Rhaenys giggling.
"What is it!" Sansa says scowling at her.
Smiling back Rhaenys says "I asked you to try and warg but it seems you decided to try and use the privy instead" before laughing at Sansa.
Sansas cheeks flushing she crawls away to the other side of the cage before pouting.
"I don't even know what I'm supposed to be doing so saying concentrate to me is not helping" Sansa says in a loud whisper, as she doesn't wanna wake the tribe.
"Mmmm, try and feel something warm in your chest, then practice swirling it around" Rhaenys says as she tried to explain her process.
Closing her eyes Sansa tries to feel s warmth in her chest, but finds nothing, she keeps looking deeper until she finds something though it isn't as Rhaenys describes, it's freezing cold, so cold that it cold burn.
"Do you have it" Rhaenys asks Sansa before Sansa opens her eyes and nods.
"Okay now let it flow through you, touch the rat with your hand and try to warg into it" Rhaenys says calmly as Sansa nods and puts her hand on the rat.
She closes her eyes again and tries to direct her magic through her arm, she struggles at first as this isn't like fire which is tangible and fluid but ice which is hard and solid.
It flows through her arm and out of her hand then she hears Rhaenys scream shocking her out of her concentration and opening her eyes.
Only to be met with the vision of the rat which had been dropped on the floor which was now made of ice as it had shattered into thousands of pieces.
"What the seven hells was that Sansa I said to warg into the poor thing, you almost had my hand" Rhaenys says in an annoyed expression.
"I just listened to you, you said move the cold feeling in my body" Sansa says defending herself.
"Warm, W-A-R-M feeling, not cold I don't even have that" Rhaenys days back.
"Well I don't have a warm feeling" Sansa says as she crosses her arms and huffs.
After a few minutes of silence Rhaenys crawls next to sansa and pulls her into a hug.
"Regardless that was amazing, though I don't understand how you're able to unleash magic like that without a spell" Rhaenys says as she rubs Sansas back.
"Have you taken anything since you've been near that might've grown your magic" Rhaenys asks Sansa in a questioning tone.
"No, not that I can think of" she says weakly as the magic drain seems to have made her tired.
"Rhaenys, can I ask you something" Sansa says in a tired voice.
"Of course little Sansa" Rhaenys says moving her hand to stroke her hair.
"If you have magic why can't you get us out of here" Sansa asks as she moans in pleasure at the feel of Rhaenys hands in her hair
"I'm afraid we would die, I have no idea where we are and if we did escape we would have no supplies and no proper clothes, anything that can be stolen is near useless and that's if we even get the chance to escape, I'd most likely pass out before i could kill all the brindlemen" Rhaenys states.
"So we're gonna die here then" Sansa says in a low tone.
"Don't lose hope yet little Sansa, I do have a plan" Rhaenys says with her signature smile.
"You see I wasn't really being honest when I told you about the brindlemen" she says with an awkward smile as she rubs the back of her head.
This starts to wake Sansa up as she looks up at Rhaenys.
"What do you mean" Sansa says in a serious voice.
"Well the fertility ritual is true, but it's not the only one they do" Rhaenys replies back.
"See the good news is that the fertility ritual already happened a few weeks before you came so we don't need to worry about that" Rhaenys continues.
"But the bad news is that the next ritual they do will kill both of us" she says with a small laugh
"What!" Sansa says in s loud whisper.
"Why didn't you tell me in the first place!" Sansa continues whisper shout at Rhaenys.
"Well you were already being such a downer when you got here so I thought If i told you then you'd be even worse" Rhaenys says bluntly.
"Oh I'm so sorry! I'm sorry about being a downer over my potential death" Sansa replies getting up from Rhaenys lap.
"Calm down little Sansa, I said I have a plan" Rhaenys says while holding her hands up in surrender.
"See the alter over there" she states while pointing to the middle of the camp.
"In the pillar above it is a red stone, a warlock from Qarth who found himself trapped here told me it was a Sorcerers stone" Rhaenys states as Sansa follows her finger to see the large red stone surrounded by runes.
"That stone can empower a mage many times their own strength, that is what is used in the ritual, they will kill us and our life and soul will be absorbed by the stone" Rhaenys says as she puts her arm back down.
Sansa turns back around frightened at the prospect of her soul getting trapped into the stone.
"What are they going to use it for" Sansa asks curiosity in her voice.
"I'm not sure but with the celebrations that have been happening every night I think we will find out soon" Rhaenys says grimly but then slaps her cheeks and smiles.
"No need to feel down we will escape, there is nothing to worry about" she says to Sansa trying to make her feel better.
"How can you be so positive all the time!, look at where we are, we are in one of the most hostile places in the world no friend no family no one to save us and any day now we are going to be sacrificed" Sansa shouts.
*EGHHHHHHH*
One of the creatures grunts as it rubs its ears and then walks over to the cage and hits it with his club, while saying things in an unknown language.
Sansa and Rhaenys keep their head down in submission waiting, after the man finish's shouting he walks away.
Waiting a few minutes after he left Rhaenys decides to answer Sansa.
"When I was little, I saw my brother get his brains smashed against the wall and then the same man who did it pin down my mother and rape her before crushing her head" Rhaenys says in a monotone voice.
"I was hiding under the bed at the time and luckily no one found me as I wasn't in my room but my mothers" She continues.
"A few minutes later I was found by some men who were claimed to have been sent by my Uncle Doran and that they'd take me away from her on a ship".
"When we got off the ship I realised that I wasn't in Dorne but in Pentos where I spent my time until I was 11 and I was told by a man named Illyrio Mopatis that my brother wasn't dead but he was in fact alive".
"When he introduced me to Aegon I knew straight away this was not my brother" She says with disgust in her voice.
"How did you know" Sansa inquires engrossed in her story.
"I felt a connection with my brother ever since he was born as soon as I touched his hand we were bound together, and I felt that link sever at the same time I saw his brains run down the bedroom wall" Rhaenys states coldly.
"Of course I would not accept him as Aegon and so they accused me of being hysterical and mentally unwell" Rhaenys stated venom dripping from her voice.
"Illyrio convinced Aegon that I would come around and that he would send me to a place to get help" She continues.
"Jon Connington that damn sword swallower was so in love with my father that he couldn't see past that bastards white hair and violet eyes, so he agreed with whatever they said condemning Rhaegars last remaining child"
"Where did he send you" Sansa asks in a concerned voice.
"He didn't send me somewhere to get better, he sold me to one of his rich friends in Volantis who wished to take me for a wife" Rhaenys speaks disgustedly as she spits outside the cage bars.
"I told him if he put his pecker anywhere near me I'd burn it off" Rhaenys then said with a smile.
"So he sold me to one of his friends and eventually it became a game of who could tame the dragon" she says with her eyes watering slightly.
"Some would try and woo me and others would try and beat me into submission, but I never submitted" Rhaenys says proudly as she wipes her face.
"I managed to learn, men will do anything if they think you'll let them between your legs and I read old books and Valyrian scrolls" She continues.
"My last owner grew bored of me and sent me on a ship to be sold to one of the Lynessi pleasure houses, but we were caught in a storm and ended up here where I was found by our lovely captors"
"So that's why I am so positive because it all happens for a reason Sansa, I am here for a reason, I will escape and I will use that stone to do it and when I finally leave this hell continent I will go back to pentos and I will sink the city into the fucking sea" She ends maliciously.
(AN: So bit of a shorter one than usual but didn't really think I could stretch it out without it becoming boring, chapters will longer don't worry and when I do release short ones I'll probably do more than one a day)