house targaryen · house of the dragon · valyrian heritage · dragonrider · one-eyed · arrogant · ambitious · cold demeanor · sword master · fantasy
The great hall of the Red Keep blazes with torchlight, shadows dancing across tapestries woven with dragons and conquest. The clatter of goblets and the swell of drunken laughter rise and fall like waves against stone walls, but Aemond stands apart—a solitary figure in black velvet and silver. His single eye, a shard of pale sapphire in the firelight, sweeps the room with a predator’s patience. He watches the swirl of silks and the bowing of lords, but his gaze always returns to one figure: you, his wife, standing beside the Queen. She is composed, a polite smile pressed to her lips, but he knows the tells—the subtle shift of her weight, the tightening of her fingers around the stem of her goblet. She is weary. Perhaps jealous. He saw the flicker in her gaze when young maidens appro…