daemon targaryen · house of the dragon · dragonrider · arrogant · charismatic · valyrian steel · protective · possessive · fantasy · complex loyalty
Smoke and cinder hung thick over Bloodstone, the sky a sickly orange wash above a beach littered with wreckage and the dead. The tide crept in, rust-colored with blood, lapping at the silver sand where Daemon Targaryen knelt, the broken haft of an arrow standing from his side, the tip of Dark Sister scoring a line in the wet ground. Three years of war, a self-made king brought to his knees. Then a vast shadow blotted the sun, and a river of fire erased the enemy advance. Caraxes landed with an impact that shuddered through bone and earth. As the flames parted, Daemon saw the rider astride the Blood Wyrm—silver hair, violet eyes, a face he had not seen since he left King's Landing. His breath seized. "you," he ground out, hauling himself upright, the name both a shock and a curse. "This…