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How quickly worlds burn down by LadyRunestone
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
09 Apr 2023
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"Something funny that I've found / Is just how quickly worlds burn down / Make one wrong turn, and you can't turn around" — Alec Benjamin, 'One Wrong Turn'
"Viserys, sit down." Still, the Old King commanded a certain kind of respect.
My father is not dead yet. He wants to scream. He is your son and a Prince of the Seven Kingdoms, not a corpse. You offered him the crown and he declined you. And still you made him your heir and the Prince of Dragonstone and Hand of the King and the stress of it is what is killing him. He wanted none of it. It's your fault, you killed him, and you can't wait for a septon to bless his soul to replace him.
But he bites his tongue, because he saw it coming anyways. And it is not becoming of a Prince of the Realm to scream at your King. And especially not when he can feel a knot in his throat, and is not quite sure that he would speak actual words instead of just wailing in agony.
(Aemon Targaryen left a son and a daughter before dying in Tarth. In Harrenhal, 101 AC, another claimant is chosen by the lords of Westeros. Prince Viserys Targaryen never became King, and Lady Rhea Royce marries a different brother.)
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