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It’s a terrible business. They are dead, his brother and Aemma, taken by the cold two days before Christmas.
And he is late. A week late.
Daemon was surrounded by death all his time in India, serving the Crown as the army doctor. But in India, death was perceived differently than here, in London. Maybe because Viserys and Aemma were people he loved and cared for.
And now they are dead. And he isn’t.
It doesn’t count that technically he is dead. His heart is not beating. His skin is cold. His eyes are red if he is outside during the day without his glasses.
Being a vampire isn’t that bad. He got used to it. The worst is hunger but as he can control it now, life should get better. And the pain of loss will go away with time.
Now he has plenty of time.
These thoughts run through his head as he stands on the porch of his childhood home. Now, however, his childhood house belongs to him. He inherited it from Viserys, as he is the only male heir.
It’s not fair to girls that they can’t inherit after their father if the father didn’t leave a will. So with that he’s thoughts immediately switch to Rhaenyra, his niece. She was 15 when he went to India, and she was more of a tomboyish boy than a lady.
Did she change much, Daemon thinks. But the thought dies as the door burst open, and the sweetest smell fills his nostrils, he hears how blood flows in veins and he is captivated by this music, and oh, when he sees her, figure like Venus with rounded hips, thin waist and full bosom, pale column of neck, red full lips, cherry cheeks, eyes like two deep ocean pools and long wavy blonde hair, he feels like he is alive again.
A few seconds they are just stand there, eyeing each other until she exclaims:
“Uncle Daemon!” And rushes to him, pressing her body into his, her heat, her smell, her heartbeat fills him, awakening that dark part of him with which he thought he found balance.
But he didn’t as he didn’t know what hunger was before as all he wants is to consume her all.
The absolutely terrible part?
It’s Rhaenyra, his sweet niece.