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his hair's on fire and his heart is burning (wash him deep where the tides are turning) by aletterinthenameofsanity
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
24 Sep 2026
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Summary
Stories filter across the Narrow Sea of a pirate ship with a pink flag with a dragon that flies over the ship.
Many dismiss it as just a ship with a dragonhead figurehead, carved out of the pink wood that the Myrish find so enticing.
Many of the Free Cities claim descent from Valyria. They take the dragon back, claim it for themselves, from their ancestors that fled the Freehold and its empire.
Besides—what dragonrider would ever choose salt and sea over fire and blood?
There is no chance of such a thing.
Rhaena Targaryen and Laenor Velaryon are long dead and gone. That is what everyone knows. It is a fact, burned into the sands of Driftmark, when Laenor’s body was found and a little girl’s gown was found shredded on the rocks alongside a finger, burned down to the bone by dragonfire.
(Yes, there is a girl on the pirate ship who is said to be missing her pinky finger, but that’s just a story, isn’t it? It’s all just stories in the end.)
Or: a story in which Rhaena hitches a ride with her fleeing uncle when he fakes his death, and years later Gwayne and Daeron are captured by pirates when they flee the Battle of Tumbleton. These two facts are more entwined than you'd think.
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