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The Ghost On The Shore by Anonymous
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
30 Aug 2024
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Summary
The ghosts from Prince Lucerys Velaryon's past - both living and dead, seem unwilling to let him go. Shielded from the war inside the walls of a parish, the boy’s second chance at life is disrupted by the appearance of a dead man in the flesh.
How his own story ends should not have come as a surprise to the Heir of the Tides. After all, all that comes from the sea must return to the sea, as well.
In a rare moment of triumph, Lucerys sees that there, on his uncle’s face, is shame.
Aemond had felt none at spreading ill words about his own sister’s children; he had felt none at visibly taking joy at the heir being debased at court; he had felt none at acting much like a babe with a wounded pride in front of an audience of a noble family; he had felt none at challenging a princeling and an envoy to a duel; he had felt none at demanding a much younger prince’s eye in front of an ally of House Targaryen; he had felt none at pursuing his kin as the storm raged; he had felt none at taking the life of Prince Lucerys Velaryon.
But, here, on a nameless shore and with Lucerys’s own birthright as witness - denied of a small kiss, which he, once more, had thought himself entitled to, he finally does.