𝘽𝘼𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙍𝘿'𝙎 𝘽𝙇𝙊𝙊𝘿

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helaena sent smiles towards passing civilians who bowed to her "do you miss him often?"

"why are you asking me this" zaenya couldn't help but question suspiciously side glancing the girl before looking straight forward

the princess shrugged adjusting her pastel blue headscarf that covered her braided pale locks, matching the blue dress adorning her frame "the love of a father differs from the love of a distant mother, cherish the thinning bond before it vanishes into the abyss or the daughter will be left with steel and a weeping heart"

there those riddles came again but zaenya watched on closely how the sheer glaze passing the violet eyes of helaena covered her hues before it disappeared and returned to the normal gaze of the princess

her words going over zaenyas head like the riddles she had once said before, yet as she was to discover these words piece by piece, helaena spoke again "do you think they'll have honeycomb? jaehaerys loves them dearly!" smiled the princess widely

the tall woman eyed helaena for a small moment before ultimately opting on a small nod "...i'm sure there will be somewhere"

that made helaena excited as she tightened her grip on zaenyas bicep "then let's go!"

the two enjoyed their exploring through the town as helaena had bought many gifts and treats, the towns people gave the princess an exciting experience and she showed them nothing but kindness making them all grow fond of the girl

now they returned back to the castle where zaenya went straight to one of the maesters who received all ravens, with a knock and a call of confirmation to enter, zaenya opened the door meeting the eyes of the old man

he stood and bowed respectfully "a pleasure being graced with your presence, is there something you need?"

zaenya pushed back her cringe at the formality and quickly nodded "yes uhm .." the words seem to have stuck as she trailed off staring to the ground, lips pursed in thought at what helaena said. she couldn't shake off the weird feeling

"prin–"

"has my ...father sent ravens during my time here?" she finally splattered out looking back to the man to the man expectedly

the maester thought for a moment before he rose his finger "ah yes" he smiled waddling towards his table that were stacked with letters as he quickly searched through them "it must've slipped my mind, seems as though the old age has made me forgetful" he jested with a slight wheezed chuckle

zaenya hummed shortly with an awkward smile, her foot tapping against the floors impatiently

"here it is!" he pulled out three letters "oh! here's more from dragonstone" he took out more before waddling back towards the woman and handed the small pile to her "there you go" he smiled

zaenya was clearly surprised at this not taking her eyes from them as she nodded turning to leave in haste "thank you!" she called out closing the door behind her and rushed to her chambers

placing the pile of letter on the table, zaenya sat down on the chair and opened the first on that was sent by her half sister rhaena. eyes of two scanned the neat handwriting taking in the words of the girl and a smile played on her lips, rhaena wrote to her all about what has been happening and how she misses the tall woman greatly hoping to see her soon

next was of jacaerys, where the boy had wrote about his improvement in swordfighting and his pronunciations in high valyrian courtesy of their late night session where zaenya would teach the boy both to help him as he is the heir when his mother is to be queen and jace wanted all the help he could get. he too expressed how he missed her and threw in some playful insults that made zaenya laugh

the third was of rhaenyra, the womans elegant cursive writing made zaenya hum knowing how much of a perfectionist rhaenyra was. the woman wrote to zaenya of all and had written a sweet paragraph towards the end

lucerys was next and zaenya swore she would cry any moment, how sweet he was and never failed to write his deep longing for her presence, how he would often visit her dragon kronos with jacaerys and joffery in his cave near dragonstone whenever the brothers would miss zaenya, and how he ended the sweet note with messy hearts

but soon the sweet moments was sucked up when she read the letters of her father, her smile dropped and her eyes dried up as a scowl now fell onto her face when her eyes looked over the words

one in particular made her scowl deepened

it's time to take on your role as my daughter and a princess, alliances are to be made for future occurrences and you are of age to take a wife

i've made the effort to send your suitors to kings landing where you can choose any of your liking and get the approval from your uncle, i've sent a raven to inform my brother of their soon arrival

choose wisely daughter

your father

"what the fuck?" her lips curled down throwing the letter down on the table, here she thought her father would have done the same as the others and shown her any sort of affection—but no, just as he is all her life, the words of helaena vanished when she had taken it as a sign that her father might've had sent her letters so the two would retain their 'bond' as the young princess said but she was sadly mistaken

and now this just pissed her off to the extent, sending suitors here so she could take on a wife? why would she when she has alice–

alicent

zaenya groaned loudly facepalming before running them down her face turning her eyes to the ceiling "to whatever gods are above in the heavens, please let this be a dream"

A/N: 😈😈