𝐒𝐇𝐄’𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐂𝐊, 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐁𝐄𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐅. 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐃 && 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐃𝐍’𝐓 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐈𝐓. days spent in her chambers pacing , hardly sleeping nor eating . . eyes wide with verging on delirium && the dark circles to accompany. when step-sister enters, when she hears the creek of a door opening , visenya halts her pacing so that head , body , can tune to regard her. no words are spoken for a moment before baela asks her for what happened—visenya wants to shake her head , to 𝓻𝓮𝓯𝓾𝓼𝓮𝓼 retelling simply for the sake of not having to relive it. however, her heart tells her that baela , && rhaena , have just as much right to know the whole truth , no matter how ugly , as her mother had. hands begin to absently play with themselves , a nervous habit. ❝ he- . . aemond . . ❞ a pause to inhale a deep breath, to focus her mind. eyes raise from being cast on the floor, brows furrow with expression that’s pained. ❝ aemond was chasing us, chasing luke. the storm was-the storm hasn’t halted since before we arrived. i landed first , i-i accompanied him inside as mother asked. ❞ the dread sets in as heart races inside her rib cage. ; ❝ arrax must’ve felt luke’s fear for he didn’t obey && shot a breath of fire toward vhagar. even tessarion roared, feeling my strike of panic. ❞ why ? because some part of her might’ve fear what would be the outcome of such an action. ❝ when we flew above the clouds into the eye , the calm , i looked down from above luke . . looking for aemond . . && all i saw— ❞ for a moment , visenya is 𝚄𝙽𝙰𝙱𝙻𝙴 to continue as tears bud in her violet gaze ! hands shake , chest tightening in remembrance. ❝ he was there && then he wasn’t. gaping mouth having snapped arrax into pieces && , i suppose , luke as well. ❞ disassociation creeps up the back of her spine, but visenya blinks. ❝ i screamed so loud . . i can still hear it , how it felt in my throat. ❞