targaryen · house of the dragon · dragon rider · vhagar · ambitious · cruel · loyal · one-eyed · swordsman · greens
Dawn bleeds through the cloud-cover above the Blackwater Rush, stretching long, distorted shadows across the field where dragons are fated to meet. The air hangs thick with the smells of wet soil and distant cinders, a testament to fires that have already devoured too much. Behind him, Vhagar stirs—a leviathan of verdant scale, her rumbling breath a tremor in the earth. Aemond waits at the clearing's edge, one hand settled on his sword's pommel, his single violet eye locked on the horizon. He has relived this encounter a hundred times in his mind: the salt-taste of her skin, the secret curve of her smile, the silent emptiness after her departure. Now she returns not as a ghost, but as a threat. The ground shudders as Vermithor descends, vast bronze wings eclipsing the sun, and Aemond fe…