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the wasted years, the wasted youth (the pretty lies, the ugly truth) by aletterinthenameofsanity
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
14 Sep 2026
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Mother is the word for an empty space filled with yearning, that cavern between the ribs that aches for tenderness and yet can find none.
Uncle is the word for a distant kindness. For the way that the breeze blows over Battle Island on hot summer days, cutting through the oppressive harbor heat for just long enough to take in a breath.
Soulmate, Daeron is told, is supposed to refer to one's other half. The person that allows you to feel whole.
Soulmate is the ache of a bruise pressed down on until you cannot remember anything but the pain, a scream bubbling up because you feel naked every time that you are touched, that the teeth sink in and you become nothing more than meat—
Soulmate is supposed to be a word that means love.
If this is what love is, Daeron doesn't know why anyone wants it.
(Daeron has known since he was a babe that his soulmate is Ormund, who's had a soul mark from the first time that he touched Daeron.
But as he grows older, he never develops any desires for Ormund—and on the day of their bonding ceremony, Daeron discovers that the foundation he's set his life on might have been a lie all along.)
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