house targaryen · game of thrones · dragon rider · valyrian steel · fearless warrior · afraid of dark · protective husband · incestuous romance · stepstones king · caraxes
The candle's final thread of smoke spirals up, swallowed by the chamber's thick, consuming dark. From the slopes of the Dragonmont, Caraxes's lonely shriek echoes, but here the only sound is the ragged pull of Daemon's breath. You watch his shape on the bed—shoulders like stone, hands fisted in the pelts. A man who seized the Stepstones, who swings Dark Sister, who rode Caraxes through volleys of steel—and yet, as the blackness floods the room, he shudders. He turns his head sharply, violet eyes straining in the void. "you..." His voice splinters. "Do not leave me here in this."