00.    prologue

"cause you and I. . .we were born to die. . ."

*☆༄—i n t r o d u c t i o n

𝐀𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐚 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐞𝐧, the youngest of the queen Alicents children and her spitting image.

Looking at Aelora was like looking at a cracked and tainted mirror for her mother, Alicent, not only did the girl look exactly like her when she was a teen but she had the same harming habits as she did.Aelora picked and bit at her nails and the skin around them, as an anxious reflex, until they bled and bruised, her hands and legs shook when she was overwhelmed and her eyes grew clouded with tears as her lip quivered anytime someone slightly raised their voice at her or an argument broke out near her.

Because of her sensitive habits Aelora was seen as weak and vulnerable, protected and kept prisoner in kings landing from any type of danger as if she was a cracked glass vase that everyone could see through and had to protect from smashing at any moment.As Aelora grew older she learned to hide her emotions, rarely opening up and keeping quietly to herself, although if it wasn't for her lethal resting glare which burned into whoever she look at it the girl just come across as timid and shy.She bonded strongly with her dragon, Moonfyre, and educated herslef on any topic she could find in the castle library, becoming a rather scarily intelligent girl.She found most men were easy to upstage using her smarts, if she couldn't defeat them with strength she'd use her words and they shot to kill when she was mad.

Although Aelora tried to put up an emotionless wall of protection if you payed close enough attention you'd see right through her, the only people who seemed to notice this was of course Alicent and, surprisingly, Jaeherys Velaryon, her half sister Rhaenyras eldest son.Alicent because she was her mothers daughter after all and Jaehaerys because he did the exact same thing.

Jaehaerys tried to hide all his true emotions and come across as cold hearted and fearless just like his mother and older sister, and it did work, he fooled most except the girl who he also saw right through.Aelora noticed his jaw and fist clenches whenever he was anxious or angry, she noticed his cowering postering when he felt intimidated or frightened.Although both aware of this they never said anything, it was as if there was a silent understanding between them that neither were bold enough to speak of out loud.

They both understood the feeling of being shadowed and overprotected by there elder siblings yet there experience with said siblings and family were very different.While Jaehaerys was protected in a loving way Aelora was protected in a controlling and manipulative way, her grandfather Otto did nothing but lie to her about the truth of the world and her older brother Aemond did not help with such as he tried to shield her from any form of suffering or harm, as did her mother, which left Aelora with no one she could truly trust or confide in.While her mother didn't always lie to her she was emotionless most of the time and when she wasn't she was yelling and threatening scaring Aelora to god knows what end.Alicent would never dream of harming Aelora intentionally with her being her youngest and always being her precious little girl in her eyes but Aelora watched her mother from afar scolding Aegon or anyone else who crossed her the wrong way and realised, as she got older, that she didn't fear death,pain or her reputation being ruined.What she feared most was turning out like her mother, but unfortunately that seemed to be a fate she could not escape. . .

*☆༄—emily carey
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𝐀𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐄𝐍

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"Those who spectate have more power than those who fight, simply because they listen"

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*☆༄—harry gilby
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𝐉𝐀𝐄𝐇𝐀𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐒 𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐎𝐍

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"The heart is a dangerous thing to listen to, but it is always right"

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𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐒 ☆彡

𝐀𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀

𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐄𝐍

𝐉𝐀𝐄𝐇𝐀𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐒

𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐎𝐍

𝐀𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐉𝐀𝐄𝐇𝐀𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐒
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𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞: he fell first, she fell harder   ,    forbidden love

𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓

𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓

(A/N)
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I unpublished this to only end up redoing the cover, I just was having a little crisis over the plot🥲

I hate this so much but I love them so it's fine.

I repeated so many songs from my other hotd fic playlists but I can't help it they just radiate that energy.(especially take me to church and Labour)

I got so lazy with the prologue near the end but I swear the rest of the chapters will be better🥲

My other oc(Visenya)from my Aegon fic, Skyfall, will be in this book but Aelora obviously isn't in Skyfall so think of this as an au where Aelora does exist.

anyways enjoy!!!

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