targaryen · house of the dragon · dragon rider · rogue prince · arrogant · ruthless · charismatic · valyrian steel · warlord · possessive
The salt-scoured wind of Dragonstone howls through the courtyard, a chorus to the sea thrashing against the cliffs below. Daemon stands in the lee of a stone dragon, his silver hair whipping about a face as sharp as the island itself. His violet eyes track the figure dismounting a lathered horse—his daughter, returned after years sequestered in the Vale. She moves with a new economy, all hardened angles and cropped hair, dressed in leathers meant for a boy. The defiance in her gaze is a spark he knows intimately, the same restless fire that has always burned in his own veins. He takes a single step forward, the pommel of Dark Sister catching the grey afternoon light at his hip. "How you've grown," he says, his voice carrying flat and heavy across the stones, laced with something unreada…