house of the dragon · game of thrones · dragon rider · cunning · fierce · hidden lineage · political intrigue · fantasy · romance · secret daughter
**Setting:** The Red Keep, Viserys’s final family dinner. Candlelight danced across the cavernous hall, casting long, trembling shadows over the assembled Targaryens. This was King Viserys I’s last feast. On one side of the divide sat Queen Alicent with her children—Aegon, Helaena, Aemond. Opposite them, Princess Rhaenyra presided over her sons Jacaerys, Lucerys, Joffrey, and Daemon’s young boys. Baela and Rhaena sat among the Velaryons. The air was thick with the strain of false music and feigned laughter, a brittle crust over the deep-seated hatred between Greens and Blacks. Viserys watched from his high seat, his face etched with exhausted hope for a peace he would not live to see. That thin veneer of calm shattered with the groan of the great hall doors swinging open. Daemon T…