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"He called me boy"

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"He called me boy"

"Goodnight Ser Criston" Rhaenyra said as she entered her room, one of her new younger sisters cries echoing down the hallway

"Sleep well princess" Criston responds before Rhaenyra shut the door taking her jewellery off looking at a bag hanging off the back of a chair dumping its content onto her nearby table taking a sniff before finding a scroll from her uncle daemon explaining the secret passages built by Maegor Targaryen. She put the rags on left by Daemon and went down into the tunnel walking through its twist and turns and ending up at Balerion's skull, but Rhaenyra continued walking and seeing daemon. where he guides her down the outside stairs of the red keep

"Where are we going?" Rhaenyra finally asked her uncle but got no response 

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Alerie stood overlooking the town of Kings landing trying to sooth Alyssa to sleep

"My darling please go to sleep" Alerie spoke rocking her daughter back and forth looking towards the door when she hears it creak open

"Mama" Aegon says when he sees her

"Aegon, why aren't you in bed its past your bed time"

"your grace" Aegon's wet nurse comes through the door apologising "im so sorry your grace, the prince Aegon wouldn't stay in his bed"

"It is alright Matilda I will take Aegon back to bed" Alerie told her sincerely "come on Aegon" she takes his hand, Alyssa in her other arm

"But mama, I don't want to" Aegon cried walking down the corridor and past Ser Criston

"Ser Criston" Alerie greeted

"My queen"

"Is Rhaenyra in?" Alerie asked

"Yes, your grace she arrived a few moments ago" his words made Alerie step forward letting go off Aegon's hand to knock on her door

"Rhaenyra?" Alerie asked "I'm about to put the children to bed, would you like to accompany me, we could maybe go to the kitchens find some cake" Alerie got no response "I see, you wish to be left alone perhaps tomorrow"

Alerie walked Aegon back to his nursery his hand now back in hers 

"Come Aegon lets put Alyssa to bed then you" Aegon leads the way to Alyssa's nursery her now finally asleep

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Daemon ended up leading Rhaenyra to flea bottom a town where the residents of kings landing live Rhaenyra was astonished, people there breathed fire, did unholy things in the streets, danced, sung

"Fuck off boy" a man walked into her

"He called me boy" she laughed at daemon

There was a man above her walking on rope

"Do you wish to know your death child?" a woman in the streets spoke

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"Come on Aegon, in the morning we can do anything you wish" Alerie said trying to get the young child to bed

"No" he said stubbornly trying to get out of bed

"I can tell you a bed time story" she reasoned with her son

"The one about the dragons" he asked

"Yes the one about the dragons" Alerie told him with a laugh "once upon a time, many moons ago long before you and me there was a young boy named hiccup, he was a weak, skinny boy who's village hated dragons, yet he did not and wanted to save them from their fate brought by his village, so when he meets an injured dragon who he calls toothless he creates him a new tail so he can still fly with hiccup riding him" 

Looking down Alerie sees Aegon fast asleep and kisses his forehead before muttering

"Sleep well my dear, we shall finish the story tomorrow"

Alerie leaves Aegon's and makes her way to her and viserys chambers

"My love" Alerie spoke as she entered the room and saw viserys sitting in the bath with a hand maiden attending to him with a cloth "let me take that and leave us, all of you"

"You have a far kinder touch than they do" he admitted

"I hope so, I am your wife"

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"And now we come to the matter of the great iron chair" the man on stage starts "and whose bum it might bear, our good king names his daughter a girl his heir" a actor playing Rhaenyra turns around and the whole crowd boos "but then to him a babe is born" a actor playing Alerie started to groan faking giving birth making both Daemon and Rhaenyra give them a look of disgust "a son, to which heir might the chair bear? who will it be? the brother? the daughter? or the little princeling of three?" the actor playing Rhaenyra starts to sit in the chair resulting in a crying actor playing Aegon "Rhaenyra the realms delight a girl so young and so slight loved by all her people but would she make a powerful queen? or would she be feeble?"

"Feeble" the crowd shouts

"Though Aegon the babe might long for a claim he has two things which Rhaenyra cannot, a conquerors name and a cock" 

"Lies, slander, boo" Rhaenyra shouts

"Yes jest if you will but many of the smallfolk are to believe that as male Aegon should be the heir" Daemon tells the teenager

"Their wants are of no consequence"

"They're of great consequence if you expect to rule them of one day"

"For one night I wish to be free of the burdens of my inheritance" Rhaenyra told him before going up to a man and looking at his things for sale

"Four copper, street rat, in kings landing we pay for our pleasures" Daemon told her before Rhaenyra threw some meat at the man and running off

"Hey, stop boy"

"Wait I'll find him" Daemon said chasing after the princess


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