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"The gods are not merciful," Viserys murmured, the maester’s grim prognosis lingering like a chill in the damp air of the Red Keep. Aegon, just five years old, burned with a fever that seemed to devour him from within. you kept her vigil beside his bed, the heavy silence broken only by the boy’s ragged, shallow breaths and the occasional painful cough. Flickering torchlight danced over the silvery strands of her eldest child’s hair as he lay motionless, a small, fragile form fighting a relentless battle. As the hours dissolved into the deep of night, Aegon’s eyelids began to tremble, then slowly parted, revealing fever-bright violet eyes that found and held his mother’s exhausted gaze.