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jaharis targaryen
celebrated his 50th birthday in 84ac the
years had taken their toll on him and
those who knew him well
said that he was never the same after
his daughter sarah had disgraced and
abandoned her family he had grown much
thinner almost
gaunt there was more grey in his gold
beard and in his hair for the first time
men were starting to call him the old
king rather than the conciliator as he
had been known since his early role
alasan shaken by all the losses they had
suffered withdrew more and more from
governance of the realm
and rarely came to the small council
meetings but jahiris still had his
faithful septum bath
and his sons he told eamonn and balon if
there's another war
it was for them to fight it now his
fighting days were done and he had his
roads and great projects to finish
two years later in 86 ac queen anna san
era the matchmaker announced the
betrothal of her daughter visera
15 years of age to thea more manderly
the fierce
old lord of white harbor the marriage
would do much and more to tie the realm
together by uniting one of the greatest
houses of the north to the iron throne
lord theomore had one great renown as a
warrior in his youth
and had proved himself a canny lord
under whose rule whitetail but had
prospered greatly
queen anna sat was very fond of him as
well remembering the warm welcome he had
given her
during her visit to the north mandalay
had outlived four wives and while still
a doughy fighter he had grown very stout
which did little
to recommend him to the princess of
sarah she had a very different man in
mind
even his little girl with sarah had been
the most beautiful of the queen's
daughters
great lords famous knights and cello
boys had danced
attendance on her all her life feeding
her vanity her great delight in life was
playing one boy off another goading them
into foolish quests and contests
to win her favor for a joust she made an
admiring squire swim the blackwater rush
climb the tower of the hand and set free
all the ravens in the rookery
once she took six boys to the dragon pit
and told them she would give her
maidenhead to whoever put his head in a
dragon's mouth but the dragon keepers
swiftly put an
end to that no squire was ever going to
win for sarah's heart
queen allison knew not her heart and
certainly not her maidenhead
she was far too sly a child to go down
the same path as her sister sarah
she had no interest in kissing games nor
boys the queen told you harris
she plays with them as she used to play
with puppies she aims much higher i have
seen the way
she preens and prances around baylon
that is the husband
she desires and not for love of him she
wants to be queen prince baylon was 14
years older than visera 29 to her 15
but other lords had married younger
maids and she well knew that it had been
two years since princess eliza had died
yet balon had shown no interest in any
other woman
he married one sister so why not another
but sarah told her closest friends
i am much prettier than lissa ever was
you saw her she had a broken nose and
mismatched eyes
if the princess was intent on marrying
her brother the queen was equally
determined to prevent it her answer was
lord mandalay
and white harper theomar is a good man
alessan told her daughter a wise man
with a kind heart and a good head on his
shoulders
his people love him frustrated with
sarah next turn to balon
in hopes of rescue slipping past his
guards into his bed chamber one night
she disrobed and waited for him making
free with the prince's wine
while she waited when prince balon
finally appeared he found her drunk and
naked in his bed and sent her on her way
the princess was so unsteady that she
required the help of two maids
and knight of the king's guards to get
her safely back to her own apartments
how the battle of wills between queen
alisan and a headstrong 15 year old
daughter might finally have been
resolved we will never know
not long after the incident in balon's
bed chamber as the queen was making
arrangements
for viscera's departure from king's
landing the princess traded clothes with
one of her maids to escape the guards
who had been the scientist keeper out of
mischief
and slipped away from the red keep what
she termed one last night of laughter
before she went and froze her companions
were all men
two minor lordlings and four young
knights all green as spring grass and
eager for sarah's favor
one of them had offered to show the
princess parts of the city that she had
never seen
the pot shops and rat pits are flea
bottom the inns along eo alley
and river row was serving wench's dance
on tables the brothels on the street of
silk
l mead and wine all featured in the
evening's frolics
and bersera partook eagley at some point
near midnight
the princess and their remaining
companions decided to race
back to the castle a wild ride through
the streets of the city
ensued with king's landers scrambling
out of the way to avoid being run down
and trampled laughter rang through the
night and spirits were high until the
races reached the foot of aegon's high
hill where viscera's palfrey collided
with one of her companions
the knights met lost her footing and
fell breaking his legs beneath her
the princess was thrown from the saddle
head first into a wall a neck was broken
it was the hour of the wolf the darkest
time of night when it fell to sir ryan
redwine
of the kingsguard to rouse the king and
queen from their sleep to tell them that
a daughter had been found dead in an
alley at the foot of aegon's high hill
despite their differences the loss of
princess for sarah was devastating to
the queen
in the space of five years the gods had
taken three of her daughters
daler in 82 alissa in 84 and viscera in
87 ac
prince balon was greatly distraught as
well wondering if he should have spoken
to his sister with less harsh tone
the night he had found a naked in his
bed though he and eamon were a comfort
to the king and queen in their time of
grief along with eamon's wife lady
joslin and their own daughter
rhaenys it was their own remaining
daughters that alisan turned to vasales
miguela 25 years of age and a scepter
took leave from her set to stay with her
mother for the rest of that year
and princess gail a sweet child of seven
became the queen's constant shadow and
support
even showing her bed at night the queen
took strength from her presence
but even so more and more she found her
thoughts telling her daughter
the daughter who was not with her though
joharus had forbidden it
alla santa fired his edict and secretly
engaged agents to keep
watch over her across the narrow sea
sarah was still in lease
she knew from their reports still at the
pleasure garden
now 20 years of age she often
entertained her admirers
still garbed as novice of the faith
there were evidently
a good many lyceni who took pleasure in
ravishing an innocent young woman who
had taken bow to chastity
even when the innocence was feigned it
was her grief over the loss of princess
vasara that finally drove the queen to
approach to harris about sarah once
again
she brought satsang bath along with her
to speak on the virtues of forgiveness
and the healing properties of time only
when bath had finished did her grace
mention sarah's name
please she baked the king she has been
punished enough surely she is our
daughter jahiris would not
be moved she is a lysine he
replied she opened her legs for half my
court
threw an old woman down the steps and
tried to steal a dragon
what more do you require have you given
any thought to how she got to lease
she had no coin how do you think she
paid for her passage the queen cringed
at the harshness of his words
but she still would not yield if you
will not bring sarah home
for love of her bring her home for love
of me i need her
you need her as a dornishman needs a pit
viper jahira said i'm sorry
king's landing has sufficient i
do not wish to hear her name again
with those words he rose to leave but at
the door he halted and turned back
we have been together since we were
children i know you
as well as you know me right now you are
thinking that you do not need my leave
to bring her home
that you can take silverwing and fly to
lease yourself what would you do then
visit her in the pleasure garden do you
imagine she will fly into your arms and
beg forgiveness
she is more likely to slap you in the
face and what will the lysine do
if you try and make off with one of
their she has value to them how
much you think it costs to lay with a
targaryen princess
at best they will demand a ransom for
her at worst they may decide to keep you
too what would you do then
shout for silverwing to burn their city
would you have me send eamon and baylon
with an army
to see if they can prise her free you
want her yes i hear you you need her
but she does not need you or me
or westeros she is dead bury her queen
alisan
did not fly to lease but neither did she
ever quite forgive
king jahiris for the words he spoke that
day plans have been underway for some
time for the two of them to make another
progress the following year returning to
the westerlands for the first time in 20
years
shortly after their falling out the
queen informed jeharis that he should go
alone
she was going back to dragonstone alone
to grieve for their dead daughters
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