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Æmond 𝕋argaryen — ᴏɴᴇ-ᴇʏᴇ, ᴋɪɴsʟᴀʏᴇʀ. ([personal profile] dohaeras) wrote2029-10-22 04:12 pm
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[personal profile] valzyrys 2022-11-05 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Primal, and ancient— he thinks even the Valyrians of old had lost the fire to indulge like this, having grown so complacent with their magic and their slave states and their great highways to use dragons as vehicles to move trade and cargo. They called House Targaryen a family of little note, living old-fashioned and more closely interbred than was the standard in the Freehold, but they had it correct.

Anyone who lost this deserves their doom. (They mustn't lose it again, they're fools, capitulating to the fucking Seven, mingling their blood, chaining their dragons.)

He makes an indulgent sound against his nephew's mouth before they part, and finds places to nose at. ]


You don't need flight training. [ He rubs the base of Aemond's skull, gently finding tension. ] Tell them the truth, we went hunting because they were both so restless.

[ Like we were. ]
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[personal profile] valzyrys 2022-11-05 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Mmn, it feels nice, but that's definitely a little sus. Daemon doesn't protest, though, merely keeps touching him. Rhaenyra is distracted of late (and not yet possessed by paranoid jealousy like she someday will be), she may not notice at all. No doubt he's got other little nicks and bruises about his person from debris, at this stage.

Just a tiny memento, for a short while. ]


Thank you for inviting me, [ he murmurs against Aemond's cheekbone, before he tilts his nephew's head enough to be able to suck on his earlobe. ] ... But I do think you just want to see if I'll fall getting off of her.

[ This is a hell of a descent to make into a burning landscape. But he's already humming a laugh about it. ]
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[personal profile] valzyrys 2022-11-05 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Daemon wraps both arms around Aemond and jiggles a hand at his side in a way that's vaguely threatening of tickling, since his nephew is so keen on laughing all of a sudden— ]

That's to be my fate, is it? [ clearly teasing, egging Aemond's very cute laughter on. ] 'Oh no, I have no idea what happened to Uncle Daemon, he must've taken a wrong turn gotten lost in a swamp.'

[ He kisses the back of his neck, quick playful presses of contact that do little to attempt to reel him in. ]

Perhaps something more abstract. 'Alas, I tried to warn him about too deeply contemplating the reflections of the soul, but he's folded in on himself and out of existence.'
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[personal profile] valzyrys 2022-11-06 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ No relief, Daemon continues to hold him and nuzzle against the back of his ear, speaking to him in a paradoxically smooth voice in contrast to all the absurdity and wriggling going on, even though the smile on his face is surely audible. It's wonderful to get him to laugh like this, completely carefree and open. ]

It was a transcendent experience. Transformative, even. All the studying he never did in his youth made a figure to mirror him, and pulled him away into another world.

[ Aemond won't be surprised to discover that Daemon isn't much of a philosopher (what incredible studies could be written on him and his moral objectivity, good heavens), but he's apparently perused enough theoretical metaphysics to be able to joke about the strangest nonsense. Realms beyond sight, glass candles and blood magic; normal reading material. ]

And Prince Aemond and his dragon were nowhere near any of it, especially not if it turns out to look suspicious.
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[personal profile] valzyrys 2022-11-06 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, my dear nephew.

[ Daemon holds him more firmly, and buries his face against the side of his neck - high collars and soot make it less sensual than if they were bare, but the sentiment remains. He breathes and he can feel Aemond breathe, pressed so close, and beneath them, there's Vhagar; Caraxes in his peripheral vision, bones snapping between his teeth. What a cycle they make. ]

I would have you fight your hardest to live.

[ A tilt closer, and he mouths burn against his ear, knowing he'll be understood. ]

... as long as you can.
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[personal profile] valzyrys 2022-11-06 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Death is just the next part of life, but Aemond is too young to think of things like I'll die without you. There is too much to see, would be even with no eyes at all. He hasn't yet been to Dragonstone, but he also hasn't been to Essos, he hasn't seen Aunt Saera or visited a witch from the Shadow Lands, he hasn't tried to get out of a betrothal he hates, he hasn't been just himself out of the constantly reinforced shadow of his brother or this stupid rift dug by his grandfather.

(He will think the same, later. That Aemond should fight as hard as he can, that if he's going to kill Daemon's children and stand by Aegon, he'd better prove himself til the bitter end.)

Caraxes slithers over to accept a gift, and the sounds he makes must be appreciation before he tucks in, burned horseflesh and bone vanishing easily into his jagged maw. ]


She's a nursemaid here, [ he teases lightly. ] Caraxes is her old friend.
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[personal profile] valzyrys 2022-11-06 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll move, [ Daemon assures him. Aemond's right, it's a wise idea. ] I'm merely waiting until no one's looking for leftovers.

[ Dragons in the snack zone can too easily shift around sniffing for more meat and mistake damn well anyone with a pulse for an extra goat. Best not to be underfoot until everyone has accepted that they've finished it all.

So they win another few minutes of just being there, and Daemon gives him a few more kisses, before it's time for him to settle Vhagar enough for his uncle to disembark. There's no way to do it gracefully, but he's perfectly competent about it, and his walk over to Caraxes is done with flurries of charcoal and ash kicking up about his knees. The male dragon panders for pets and chitters in his shrieking voice, happy about being returned to, and Daemon sweet-talks him for a while, hands on his muzzle like he's a puppy.

Caraxes swings his long neck around when Daemon begins climbing up, shoving his head beneath his rider's feet for a lift. A tricky needle to thread, but they've been at it a while. Up! There we are. ]
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[personal profile] valzyrys 2022-11-06 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ What a hellish ordeal this will be to look back on, in a week. Rhaenyra accusing Daemon of overlooking whatever he must have seen while out with Aemond, and Otto Hightower no doubt looking for his own way to dissect the situation— was Daemon sowing insecurity, was he trying to undermine Aemond's control of Vhagar? Neither will be able to speak the truth.

(Well, Daemon might. Just to get a knife in when he's cornered, reeling, still seeing their little girl's pyre in his mind, still hearing her voice scream his name and Get it out. Grief is a monster and so is he.)

Caraxes and Daemon take a little longer, circling over the landing yard for a while as though the Blood Wyrm is turning his nose up at the pit already, but he lands as well, feet black with soot and Daemon no better, face and hair all painted like a bomb went off near him.

Clock's ticking. Soon, he'll be packing up back to Dragonstone. ]
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[personal profile] valzyrys 2022-11-06 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Aemond, it turns out, is the envy of all at dinner, with Aegon and Lucerys in particular finding it deeply unjust that the other prince be permitted to skip out while they are cruelly forced to attend. Everyone under the age of thirty is excused early in whatever shifts they please, leaving the beleaguered adults to pretend to be peaceable while Viserys attempts to eat soup.

He is a little worse tonight, Daemon thinks, but it's difficult to determine a cause that would be different from any other night; guilt eats at him for not being here, and he spends a while with Rhaenyra helping her undress for the night in an attempt to settle himself, sinking into the reminder that he chose her, that these years have been the best of his life. Their Targaryen marriage on their Targaryen island, cut away from all the rest of this.

Restlessness does not leave him.

On the one hand, it's a bad idea. On the other, why work harder to deny something than to embrace it? In the end: Ah, fuck it.

The passage is less busy tonight, with only Daemon slipping through, unearthly silent as he goes, ready to vanish if it turns out Aemond isn't alone. This time he'll wake him up if he's asleep, though, if only to tease him briefly before making his escape and letting his nephew rest. He makes the lightest sound, deliberately, near the optical illusion that hides the door in the back of the room. Knock knock. ]
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[personal profile] valzyrys 2022-11-06 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A pale hand first, so carefully moving (whatever mechanism idk), he is very quiet about it; clearly someone who knows what he's doing with these old family secrets. No surprise, it is indeed Daemon, his hair down (imagine the unrestrained decadent horniness if they let his wig do that) and in a black brocade robe. Slipped away from lounging in his own quarters, it seems. ]

I could have been anyone, you know, [ he says oh-so-softly, but in an audibly teasing tone. ]
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[personal profile] valzyrys 2022-11-06 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Smallclothes, robe, and the mismatched presence of boots, because he's still walking over stone (and because no free feet pics #istandwithalicent). Daemon slinks inside and secures the passageway behind himself, looking about for a trinket of some kind to set nearby the door. Cheap alarm system, old paranoid scoundrel trick. ]

Oh, plagued by insomnia. Night terrors, practically.

[ Getting a closer look at everything is quite nice, taking in Aemond's arrangement of the space, and all his cluttered nerd shit.

Cute. ]
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[personal profile] valzyrys 2022-11-07 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's not jamming an ancient mechanism installed by Aegon the Conqueror, he's just putting a noisemaker against it. Gentle touches, now and again.

Daemon gives him a look over his shoulder, sly, as he investigates whether or not the main door's barred for privacy. Imagine the ruin of them both if somebody thinks Aemond sounds like he's dying in a bit here. Maegor's ghost acquiesces, however, and drifts over to the younger prince and his very nice bed.

He takes his hand first, leaning in to give him a kiss. ]
.. Dragonfire, my favorite way to escape cold stone.

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