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"Are you crazy?!"
"Yeah I am. Crazy for YOU!"
"THIS IS NO TIME FOR JOKES YOU ARE RIDING A UNICYCLE ON A TIGHTROPE," Alicent yelled to her girlfriend, who was precariously balanced on said tightrope, grinning at her. The unicycle wobbled. “RHAENYRA!”
“I'M OKAY, I'M GOOD ALRIGHT," Rhaenyra yelled back in an attempt to soothe Alicent’s fraying nerves. The crowd around them cheered her on, their roaring voices almost drowning out Alicent’s voice, but Rhaenyra’s ears could pick out the older girl’s voice even in a crowd of a million, on another planet.
It was the voice she had been waking up to everyday for the past seven years after all.
The tightrope shook. Alicent’s screech reached her ears again.
'Okay, maybe this wasn’t the best idea,' Rhaenyra winced. A stray thought flew into her head that she might not be sleeping next to Alicent tonight. If not falling from 10 meters, breaking a bone somewhere in her body and landing herself in the hospital, then it would be from Alicent kicking her out of their bedroom to sleep on the couch.
She was halfway through when she decided to glance down. Her eyes scanned the crowd around her before they locked with a pair of brown eyes. Alicent’s face was pale, almost drained of blood and her hands were locked together tight.
She gave a small wave and the crowd roared even louder. Alicent just gripped her hands tighter. Rhaenyra melted a little inside. It was just like Alicent to be so concerned. A grin spread across her face when she imagined Alicent running to her and flinging her arms around her neck.
"I am going to kill you when you come down." Alicent muttered as she watched Rhaenyra slowly cycle her way to the end of the tightrope. She turned to look at the crowd and Alicent held her breath. "What are you doing?"
Rhaenyra waved at her.
'You are literally hanging on for your life on a flimsy-ass rope and a unicycle that looks like it’s about to fall apart if a toddler sat on it and you DECIDE TO WAVE AT ME, RHAENYRA ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL YOURSELF?'
A grin.
'YOU KNOW WHAT STAY UP THERE BECAUSE I AM GOING TO STRANGLE YOU!’