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“Uncle!”
He and the others hear shouting steaming from worry rather than fear. His cousin had just finished convincing Alicent that everyone agreed that this tentative peace was important for his dying brother and while he does enjoy how chaotic it can be, even Daemon had to admit he was relieved the shouting was not out of fear. Nevertheless, the worry in the boys’ voices caused Rhaenyra and Jacaerys to lead the group to a lake settled between windy craigs of Dragonstone.
“Joffrey! Are you-”
As the group crests over the last winding step to the hidden lake, Joffrey and Aegon III are watching Vhagar, whose maw was open. Surveying the area, the young boys are standing behind a hand-drawn line in the dirt and appear to be in awe and worry at the same time.
“Mūna! Mūna! Uncle Aemond is inside Vhagar!”
“What the fuck? Brother-” Aegon II yells for his younger brother as Alicent screams for her boy. There goes every calm word cousin used on the Hightower cunt.
“Relax. Mother, I am alive,” Aemond’s words are nothing short of an unamused drawl as his voice is slightly echoed from the dragon’s mouth. A grunt and something breaking and coming loose. Aemond steps down from Vhagar’s mouth, “I was nabbing a sheep’s bone that got in between her teeth. My dear nephews were interested in what I have been doing the past two days-”
“Uncle said he wouldn’t be in the library allll day!” Aegon whined as his uncle chuckles, tossing the sheeps bone into the shallow lake.
“-And I explained that Vhagar needed her monthly scale cleaning and weekly teeth cleaning.”
“You…clean her?”
Aemond rolls his eyes at Lucerys and his brother’s surprise, “Of course I do,” he sounded more offended they did not realize that was a possibility. Vhagar chuffs when Aemond steps closer to his nephews, “ Besides, Vhagar appreciates it .”
“And how would you know she does ? ” There was little to no malice behind Rhaenys’s words, more curiosity at the strange bond.
“She tells me,” his nephew shrugs and turns to Vhagar, “ How about you terrorize the sea dragons underneath. I’ll finish your teeth tonight or tomorrow. I promise, love of my life. ”
With that, Vhagar sinks further into the water, bubbles as large as men showing he movements underwater.
“ The water soothes her bones and aching muscles ,” Aemond steps over the line in the dirt and is immediately surrounded by the young ones demanding his attention.
“Sunfyre doesn’t need a bath,” his other nephew murmurs but his brother hears just as Daemon and the other adults do too.
“If you did that with Sunfyre, brother, all the whores would line the city roads in mourning.”