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    Oh, the House Targaryen! Irresistible, they said, or cursed, depending on who was speaking.

    The blood of old Valyria ran bright in their veins: silver-gilt hair that caught the sun like beaten steel, eyes purple as a bruise beneath pale skin, faces too fine, too sharp, as if carved from moonstone rather than born of flesh. Yet beauty is a treacherous gift.

    In House Ashford, both judgments coexisted: Lord Ashford spoke carefully of dragons and royalty, while his wife named them rot born of rot. Siena learned to hold the contradiction — fascinated by legends of fire, repulsed by the blood that fed them — never imagining that Prince Valarr, heir to a fading flame, would one day cross the threshold of Ashford Meadow and turn distant myth into something perilously real.

    What was meant to be no more than a modest nameday joust, held in honor of her little sister Gwin, became instead the spark that set the realm upon a different course.

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