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Post by Daemon Waters on Jun 17, 2014 14:41:27 GMT -5
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Daemon sat dressed in his black pants and pullover shirt, trying to successfully read a Valyrian book. His forehead fixed in a scowl as he slowly pronounced the words he could not say.
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on Jun 17, 2014 14:53:12 GMT -5
It was no long after that his mother came in, and stood next to him, looking at the book he was reading, "always studying, Daemon?" She asked, though there was clear approval in her tone. She too was wearing also leather trousers, but had a deep red shirt on.
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Post by Daemon Waters on Jun 17, 2014 14:55:59 GMT -5
He looked up from the book with a small smile, "Yes, of course mother."
"Always."
He returned to the page and the word that had vexed him so. Daemon wrestled with the guterral sounds until he finally could finish the sentence. "Ah, I got it. Finally."
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on Jun 17, 2014 14:58:44 GMT -5
"And what does it say?" She asked,seemingly anting proof he had indeed got it.
"I wish your brother was still like you," she said, with a soft sigh as she sat down opposite him, "it is perhaps not to late to undo the damage the Tyrells have done. How have you been keeping, it feels like an age since I saw you last."
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Post by Daemon Waters on Jun 17, 2014 15:08:34 GMT -5
"It says that Old Valyria was the threshold of many wonders and history before it was ended by the Doom." He looked at her, "I wish I could have been with you when saw the ruins..."
The mention of Maegor almost changed his mood, but he understood what his mother wanted. He sighed, "We all started the same, tis true but I don't know, mother it almost seems as if he likes being the way he is."
Daemon sat back in his chair, he smiled, "I have been well. The academy was difficult in the beginning but now things are coming a little more easier to me."
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on Jun 17, 2014 15:12:58 GMT -5
"Being king is not about being as you like," Rhaena replied, shaking her head, "you do not live for yourself, to do as you like"
"Valyria was just that mostly, ruins, they were impressive, but they had no life to them, I wish you could have shared a vision I had, I saw valyria in it's prime, full of magic and dragons, and... Life." Rhaena said, looking a bit wistful, "no more than a ruin now."
"Do you think the academy is run well?"
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Post by Daemon Waters on Jun 17, 2014 15:20:40 GMT -5
Daemon sat silent, playing with his words until he spoke, "Maybe he doesn't want it, mother. " His crystal blue eyes staring at her. "Why not make Traegan your heir and spare the kingdoms the headache", he asked and then stopped as she spoke of her vision about the Valyria of old.
"I do not have visions as of yet, just dreams maybe... The academy is fine, I do like my instructors. The way they teach remind of you "
"They will not allow me to fail", he grinned, "and I don't plan to."
"You do not need any more embarrassment. "
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on Jun 17, 2014 18:57:32 GMT -5
"Maegor just does not understand what ruling will mean," Rhaena said, not really wanting to speak of it, "you could never embarrass me, I am glad that you are being so well educated, I wish I had more time to teach you again, as poor a teacher as I was, but they know what they are doing. What have you learned so far?"
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Post by Daemon Waters on Jun 17, 2014 19:05:37 GMT -5
Seeing that the subject of his sibling dolt was closed for discussion, he smiled as his mother complimented him.
"You were never a bad teacher, if greatgran was still with us", he sighed, "You are not a bad teacher, I like when you teach me."
Excited to show her, he closed the book and took in a deep breathe. Daemon stared at the book for a moment.
Small shadows crept slowly along the book's spine. It trembled on the tabletop, as beads of sweet formed on his forehead. He frowned at his progress as he grew more agitated the shadow flipped and pushed the book from the table. It landed pages down with a thud on the floor. Daemon looked at her sadly, "it wasn't supposed to do that. . It was supposed to stand and open for you."
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on Jun 17, 2014 19:09:00 GMT -5
"It will come" Rhaena said, and motioned with her hand as the same shadows picked the book up and turned the pages to where it was, before balancing it open on the table. "I was as likely to set the book on fire as open a page at your age,"
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Post by Daemon Waters on Jun 17, 2014 19:13:11 GMT -5
"I am trying as best I can, mother."
"The instructors say sometimes I lack focus because my thoughts are elsewhere. " He watched as the book was lifted and balanced before him.
"Fire", he questioned with a smile, "Truly, you could do that?"
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on Jun 17, 2014 19:23:57 GMT -5
"Oh yes," Rhaena said, and pointed to a near by candle, an opened her palm as it jumped to get hand, where it danced on her palm, "all you can do is try, Daemon, I am just glad you have any of my abilities at all. Where do your thoughts take you?"
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Post by Daemon Waters on Jun 17, 2014 19:34:23 GMT -5
He watched in awe, thinking of what he would be able to do.
"They bring me here… With you… ",he then looked out of the window, "or about my father..."
His eyes feel on hers "Uncle asked me to travel with him in the past to see him, but I do not want to go." He then frowns, "If we were important to him, he would have married you and been here."
"I wouldn't have to hear whispers about me saying that you're a… A whore and that's why I am a bastard."
The more he spoke, he didn't notice the book was slowly beginning to turn on the table. "I hate… this, him having the balls to make another family and leave you alone.." Daemon clinched his fists, the book spun a bit faster., he wasn't looking at it, his gaze still outside in the clouds.
"I hate this.. I think, I hate him.. "
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on Jun 17, 2014 19:43:35 GMT -5
"Do you think I am a whore?" She asked him, touching his face, "that word is thrown around by men and women who are scared of women who are comfortable, it is said by scions of the faith, who seek to cripple people by making them deny themselves, this is not us, and they can say what they like, I do not let the words of sheep bother me," she said, letting her true view of the people of westeros come forward, which was much the same as her own fathers. "They need to be lead, and we are the leaders. And about your father, do not hate him, he is not to blame for not being here,"
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Post by Daemon Waters on Jun 17, 2014 19:51:33 GMT -5
As she touched his face, Daemon shook his head, "No never mother, you are the Dragon Queen, leader of all men. Your rule and words are absolute."
He took in a deep sigh as the book slowed and eventually stopped, "They are sheep, I know, but I can not stop them yet."
"But I will", his blue eyes taking a dark hue, "Once I am able will fight for you and cut out the tongues of the sheep who called me a bastard and besmerged you as a whore. I swear it, mother. "
Hearing her speak on his father, he nodded then spoke, "Then who is, who would turn from him from you, from us, into the arms of another? "
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on Jun 17, 2014 19:54:35 GMT -5
"Ennio would have married me in a second, he even wanted to be my second husband when I was married to Aegon, but as my first husband tried to cut me in half with an axe, I decided to not remarry." She said, " besides, even if we had married, he would not be here. You are not a bastard to me, you are my son, letting the words of others make you angry, just shows that you care about what they say,."
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Post by Daemon Waters on Jun 17, 2014 20:01:44 GMT -5
"He would have", his eyes asking , now gentle again.
"I have heard the story of King Aegon and what he tried to do to you. Almost killing my brothers in your womb and starting a war that killed most of our kin. I think he went mad, only my opinion."
He looked at her, "I am sorry that happened to you. Kings should not hurt their Queens, they protect them."
She always had a way to calm him, and she was right he was never treated as a bastard by her. It was obvious, Rhaena loved her son. Daemon grinned, "I must learn control and not listen to sheep. They are after all weaker than dragons, we eat sheep."
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on Jun 18, 2014 2:43:13 GMT -5
"Do I need protecting? Daemon? I would not be here if i were a simpering little thing with no stomach for fights," Rhaena asked, her tone hard
"Aegon was a king in all but name, he proved that when he put himself above the throne, put what he wanted, revenge and a soft little creature, before what was best, he never sat the iron throne, and is therefore known, as Prince Aegon," Rhaena said firmly, she had bad luck with men.
"Control is hard, you have less of it because you have not needed it, but I assure you, keep to your studies, and it will come."
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Post by Daemon Waters on Jun 18, 2014 6:49:39 GMT -5
"I never thought of you as a simpering little anything mother", he smiled at her,"But you are precious and I would protect you because of that."
"There is only one of you, Warrior Queen Rhaena Targaryen, daughter of Maegor the Warborn, second of his of name, King of the Andals and First Men." Daemon continued to tell her with pride in his voice,"You have blood of the Dragon, you have warrior's blood. And you are my mother."
"Is that not worth protecting?" He looked at her. "I would with everything in me.."
Aegon the would be king, but only a Prince. "He was not worthy." Now frowning,"I was told he even worshipped the Seven. The Seven, when he should have worshipped the Gods of his Family. He was the simpering little thing, to choose a mistress over his own Queen. To forsake the lives of his heirs for a weakling, who was not strong like you. The Gods made it so that you were to be his Queen, but he was not worthy enough to accept you or their blessing."
Daemon loved his mother, she was his whole world. "I will continue my studies, mother. I have many goals to acheive before I am worthy."
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on Jun 18, 2014 11:06:18 GMT -5
"What are those goals?" She asked, smiling at her son after listening to all that he had said, even if it was a bit.. much, perhaps, for someone to be so attatched to his mother.
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Post by Daemon Waters on Jun 18, 2014 15:39:59 GMT -5
"My powers to be great, my swordhands to be greater", he grinned, "to tame a dragon and…."
Daemon swallowed, then spoke his wish, "To truly belong to our house, to be named a Targaryen." He paused and stared at Rhaena, waiting for her response.
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on Jun 19, 2014 19:18:05 GMT -5
"You put too much stock in a name," she said, "You are my son, why do you need anything else?"
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Post by Daemon Waters on Jun 19, 2014 20:09:35 GMT -5
He thought for a while, then nodded. "I understand., mother."
"I still would like to bond with a dragon though."
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on Jun 19, 2014 20:28:05 GMT -5
"Then go and try," She said, looking at her son and then actually laughing, a sound rarely heard even before she became Queen.
"If you wish to try and tame a dragon, I would be more than approving, do you wish to take the boat to dragonstone?"
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Post by Daemon Waters on Jun 19, 2014 20:40:23 GMT -5
A rarity, his mother laughing. He smiled, "Yes, yes I would and I have just the dragon in mind that I want. "
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all alone and also really bored 
Hopefully going to kickstart the festival too