My lashes fluttered open and I felt a weight on my torso. When my eyes landed on the little figure, head peaceful placed on top of my chest as strands of her black hair were on her face. A small smile spreads on my lips as I moved the her black locks from her hair. Rubbing my eyes a little and still seeing it was night, I had blinked a few times in attempts of remembering if I had the nightmare again. It had been just two days since we left Yin and the nightmares had stopped— I feared that the event had taken place, though the unending hope I still had in me never faded. Craving for some air, I had a hard time with tangle through the girls whom were all cuddle with me, Charlotte whom wrapped her left arm on the back of Himari and her head placed on the crook of my neck. Himari laid on top of me and Adelaide was wrapped around my right leg. I wouldn't blame them, sleeping in the forest or the beach was tough for all of us and getting to sleep on a real bed was a blessing.
After I hand untangle from the girls, l breathe out in relief having to not wake up from their peaceful slumber before, creaking the door open as quiet as possible to not awake the girls but definitely had awaken Balerion and Goldfyre, flapped their wings, they flew, landing on the wooden floors with soft screeches. The two dragons decided to follow me and I never protest, just smiled letting them through the door and closing it again. I walked out the cabin and to the helm where I had sat on a barrel and listened to smoothing breeze, the dragons were sat on the helm, as I run my fingers on their scales. Instead of having the nightmares I usually had of the hanging, I had dreams of Teach and our twins....Netta, of course being in it. I had terribly missed my home, being in the arms of my husband, his caring touch...I missed it...I missed it all.
A voice decided to break me out my trance, "It would be really kind of you, if you would just untie me from the mast now." The man whom was still tied to the mask spoke up, in his mother tongue and a sigh leaves my lips as my eyes went back to the calming sea.
"And risk you escaping, leaving us stranded in the middle of the sea?" I questioned, not even daring to look back at him. "We're not that far from the borders of Tiqui. I could just leave here with no harm needed be done—" Rolling my eyes in frustration, "Fucking shut up, will you?" The talkative man was getting on my nerves, it's always the talkative ones that got themselves pushed to over the line and killed. "You speak too much."
"And you're are as reckless as deer in a pit of a lion's den, if you think the men that crew this ship will not track you down and kill you." I heard him say and my blood boils as I sent a noticeable glares over at him, "Excuse me?"
"Oh, you are excused." The asshole had the audacity to tell me, "Are you asking for an audience with death, boy?"
"We both know you wouldn't do it even if you so wanted to." He started, eying me from head to toe, "Seeing as though, you are a woman. You'll never crew this ship by yourself easily like you think you can—" unfortunately, the dragons had felt the flames that burned in me and screeched loudly at the young man, him flinching in result. His eyes not leaving the dragons as even he couldn't control the shaking of his voice, "You swore me safe conduct."
"Oh, that I recall." A smirk plays on my lips, letting out a soft chuckled of amusement, "But my dragons made no promises," I stated looking a Balerion for a moment, before turning to meet his eyes filled with fear, "and you threatened their mother."
"See, only a fool can make threats he's not prepared to carry out." I started, "Let's say I, threatened to hit you if you don't shut up. What do you think I would do?"
No matter how much he was shaking in the spot he occupied, he mustered up the courage to spat, "I don't give a rat's arse—" and I punched his cheek, making him startled at what I had done before I could let him finish. "Next time I won't be so gentle with you if you don't keep that mouth of yours shut." Before turning away from him and walking to the galley to pack some food for the journey.
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When the sun had risen, I was making arrangements for the journey ahead, getting as much supplies the Yi Tish ship had to offer and to my luck there was much to offer— soon realising it might be a merchant ship. Freeing the man so he could sail while I had heated up water for the girls to bath and for me as well. Once all cleaned, well supplied, I had thanked the man for his cooperation in all this. A very smart move from him indeed to not do any harm on either me or the girls, or is it that the dragons intimidated him too much?
I had given permission to turn the ship around to Yi Ti, or wherever he chose to go as I had portled us to the a wooden house in Dorne. "Where are we?"
Westros/ Dorne, across the Narrow Sea
"Dorne, my sweetling." I answered the Yi Tish little girl, whom along with Adelaide begin exploring the cabin, wasting no time. "I thought we were going to Nassau." Charlotte questions, "Of course, just not right now." I say to the girl whom instantly nodded, by the corner of my eye seeing Addy and Himari touching some poisons on the shelf "Addy and Himari," the girls looks towards me, "don't touch anything." I warned seeing a vile of green wildfire in it, sliding down from an uneven shelf, about to fall on the girl's head but quickly catching it with my hand "Some things here are dangerous and explosive so, Charlotte you are in charge. I trust you." Placing the vile in chest and pretty much putting all the poisons out of sight.
"Wait, you're leaving us...again?" Charlotte's eyes widen.
"Just for some time while I get your father in Nassau." Even though the nightmares had stopped, I refused to lose hope. "But— I thought you said we'd leave for Nassau...not right now.." Charlotte say in confusion while I take my golden wrist band bangles with a little dagger that I wiped poison on it with a cloth,"Yes. Because, right now, it's dangerous."
"Wait! You're bringing daddy?" Addy asks with widened eyes and I nodded slightly, sitting myself on bed, "Yes. Kind of."
"What this?" Himari asks in the common tongue, Yoshi had tried to teach her and she was smart to have gripped the first quarter of the language. A smile making a way on my lips, "That's a wooden horse, sweetness."
"Horse made of wood, a toy." Charlotte explained to the Yi Tish girl.
"Here, you play with it like this." Addy says, playing with the toy that was just a decoration to the dim cabin. "Funny." Charlotte was playing with the dragons, scratching their scales, "If you go hungry, there is some meet." I told them as I changed into the Dornish yellow silked dress that reached to the ground, allowing me more flexibility in it "The dragons will protect you. If you need to burn the meet, command Dracarys."
"Dracarys." Himari commands and the dragons breathe out fire, "No! Not right now!" The girl covered her lips quickly, doe eyes widened, "Am sorry."
"It's alright, no apology needed, Himari." I warmly smiled at her. "And should there be someone of threat near the cabin house, use the command as said. I'll try to be back as fast as I can." They nodded. Getting to my knees to engulf the girls in a tight hug, making them giggle lightly, "Stay safe, my hatchlings." Once I bid farewell for now, closing my eyes, I thought about Nassau, and soon made a portal, travelling by it.
Nassau
When I had thought about, the first image that came to mind was of in the town where Charles was to be hanged. What came a shock was that, I saw absolutely no one in the area that came for the hanging, just people whom which were going about their day as usual. Seeing some men wearing red coats so I took them as the Navy. Did it take place yet? Was it through? Questions arise in my head of which I had not known the answers to.
"What's happened?" I ask a woman most likely in her mid thirties. At first she glances down at my dress before snatching her arm from my grip, "The hanging of Charles Vane?" She scoffed my way, probably jealous of the beauty in front of her but I had no time for that. "Charles Vane's hanging couldn't take place. They'll probably transfer him to Port Royal for all I know. He's probably in the fort" She turned on her heal and a sigh of relief left my lips as I touched my chest, my heart pounding too nervous to even know what's going on around me. With no second thoughts, I ran to the forth, careful to not trip on my skirts in the process.
When arriving, panting as I stood before the big double wooden doors. Gathering myself, taking a deep breathe before thinking of ways of the best cry I can act out. Dropping to the ground, I wailed as loud and dramatic as I can. It took some time before the huge doors were opened by a redcoat to see what the commotion was all about before I held onto his hands in a desperate manner, the tears slipping from my eyes, of course that's what I thought as the other redcoats ran out the fort in a haste.
"There is a matter on the beach, move aside ma'am." He orders me and I kept my firm grip on the man's wrist, "Not until you tell me where my husband is? He's being sent to the gallows and I request to see him just this once."
"Ma'am—" he tries to say but me being me, stopped him from uttering a single word, "Please, I beg of you!" I shouted in desperation as I once again, falling to my knees and holding onto his feet, "We have children and I don't know what to tell them—" hearing a sigh from the man, my eyes met his before he questions, "What's your husband's name?"
"Charles Vane." He sent a look of skeptic my way when I told him the name. He studies me in a suspicious way, his eyes holding doubts.
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