Though he avoided it for as long as he could, the time has come for Prince Regent Aemond Targaryen to fly to war, forcing him to leave his beloved sister-wife, the Princess Aella Targaryen, behind in the Red Keep, where he thinks she'll be safe. Lit...
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A letter, as written by Prince Daemon Targaryen on the nineteenth day of the fifth month in the one hundred-thirtieth year after Aegon's Conquest:
Nephew,
I do hope you continue to find Harrenhal pleasant, even if you have turned the surrounding lands into a fiery hellscape. I quite enjoyed my time there, and I hear you are, as well. But let us not speak of war or death or treason, for I write this now to bring glad tidings to our family.
Unfortunately, it is not that your elder brother has been found, captured, and killed. This pathetic attempt at usurpation shall continue for the time being, it seems. Nor is it that your bitch mother has ceased her senseless wailing or proselytizing her cause, though I may indeed go mad soon if she doesn't.
No, this news is of your sweet sister and wife - what is it you call her? Ābrazȳrītsos? I shall have to come up with something for myself - for our dear Aella has recently learned she is carrying a child.
Do send your congratulations hastily, nephew, for I am utterly delighted that I am once again to be a father.
And while this child will sadly be a bastard, those we will have in future will not. My wife, our Queen, has granted me permission to take your ābrazȳrītsos as my second wife. Ah, perhaps I will not have to design my own name for her after all.
Of course, before I do so, I must kill you. It would not do for her to have two husbands, you understand. So enjoy Harrenhal while you can, nephew. I will come for you soon.
Oh, I almost forgot! Congratulations are due to you as well. My spies tell me your mistress is also with child. How fortunate we both are to have such fertile women in our beds.
Signed,
Prince Daemon Targaryen, Consort to Her Grace Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, First of Her Name
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Precisely five months earlier, on the nineteenth day of the twelfth month in the one hundred-twenty-ninth year after Aegon's Conquest...
