Familiarity ||| Jacaerys Velaryon

twelve

Being on Dragonstone meant Alyssa and her sisters were finally getting somewhat of an actual education. With a septa, like they would've had they gone to Driftmark how Laena wanted.

Alyssa wasn't fond of it. Not at all. Because while she learned some things she enjoyed, like music and the histories, there were many things she didn't enjoy.

The girl was awful at sewing and embroidery, her hands were too clumsy and Alyssa became bored extremely easily. And for the first time, there was a woman trying to drill the importance of Alyssa keeping her maidenhead for her husband. That was his right.

A marriage was a duty.

Staying pure until she was married. Not partaking in the sinful pleasures of being bedded before she was married.

It was very strange to Alyssa. To suddenly be told that something joyful, something that men partook in regularly was forbidden for her.

Well... fuck her.

Her father had never been one to honour his duties. That may have been what marriage was. But it had never stopped him from fucking who he wanted.

Who was he to put that expectation on his daughter?

And besides, Alyssa was sure she'd actually already lost her maidenhead. To Cannibal. Or his saddle, at least.

(I MEAN THIS AS IN WHEN HORSERIDERS BREAK THEIR HYMENS IN THE SADDLE LIKE ALYSANNE BLACKWOOD NOT THAT SHE FUCKED HER DRAGON OR THE SADDLE)

She'd been trying to mount him when he'd moved. Alyssa had fallen onto a corner of the saddle and was in pain for days.

Fitting, she thought. For what stuck up septas said was her husband's right to be given to her dragon. Maybe Alyssa preferred it that way.

Alyssa took pride in Cannibal. Her hauntingly beautiful cannibalistic beast. Menacing and terrifying to all.

She let Jace and Luke meet him from afar. And Alyssa explained to them with pride how she'd claimed him as but a toddler.

Jace was jealous that she could already ride her dragon. Vermax wasn't big enough yet. He was getting there, but not quite large enough and the Dragonkeepers wanted him to wait.

After all, Cannibal needed to learn that Vermax, Arrax, and whatever hatchling came from Joffrey's egg weren't food. They were friends. And acquainting with their riders was a pretty good way to do that.

It wasn't long, however, until Corlys returned to the fighting in the Stepstones. The very fighting that the Prince of Pentos wanted protection from.

That left Rhaenys alone at Driftmark after losing both of her children. And as a result, she wrote and asked to take one of the twins as her ward.

A big decision to be sure. And Daemon left the decision completely up to the girls. They could decide which of them wanted to be her ward and help her rule over Driftmark.

Alyssa had no opinion on it. She could fly to visit either sister on Cannibal and it wasn't a long boat ride either.

That was mostly what spurred the decision, actually. Baela had Moondancer and when she was big enough, could fly her back and forth to Driftmark and Dragonstone. Rhaena couldn't.