🔱| The Devils Harbour

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The storm began three days before the feast.

By the time the first ships appeared on the horizon, the sea was black as ink and the harbor bells rang without pause. Fishermen swore they saw things moving beneath the waves. Priests shut their temple doors. Wise men spoke of ill omens.

None of it mattered.

The city had already fallen.

Euron called it a feast.

Others called it a warning.

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DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT IS A HEAVY WARNING ON THIS ONE.

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The harbor had not belonged to the city for three days.

Not truly.

The first sign had been the storm.

It had rolled in from the Sunset Sea like a living thing, swallowing the horizon beneath walls of black cloud. Ships had vanished into the fog. Fishing boats returned with torn sails and crews too shaken to speak of what they had seen.

Then came the black sails.

Hundreds of them.

Some said they had appeared from nowhere. Others swore they had emerged from the heart of the storm itself.

It did not matter.

The city gates had opened. The harbor chains had fallen. The watchtowers now flew black banners marked with the golden kraken of House Greyjoy.

And at the center of it all stood Euron Crow's Eye.

Now, on the third night, he celebrated.

The feast hall had once belonged to a wealthy merchant prince. Its walls had been stripped of their colors and draped in dark silks. Driftwood, sea glass, and strange treasures from distant lands decorated the tables. Green flames danced within iron braziers, casting sickly light across the gathered crowd.

The room overflowed with guests.

Nobles sat shoulder to shoulder with pirates.

Captains drank beside merchants.

A septon sat trembling only a few seats away from a man rumored to have slit throats for coin.

No one dared leave.

No one dared refuse the invitation.

Music drifted through the hall. Laughter echoed from the tables.

Yet beneath it all lingered fear.

Every soul present knew the rules.

A secret.

A sin.

Or a sacrifice.

That was the price of attending Euron's feast.

Some surrendered jewels.

Others offered names.

One man had offered his own brother.

The screams had echoed through the harbor for nearly an hour afterward.

The Crow's Eye had laughed.

At the far end of the hall, upon a throne fashioned from driftwood and the broken figurehead of some conquered ship, Euron Greyjoy watched it all unfold.

He looked less like a king than something dragged from the depths of the sea.

One eye hidden beneath a black patch.

The other bright and terrible as a frozen star.

Jewels glittered on his fingers. Rings flashed whenever he raised his cup. Salt and shadow seemed woven into every part of him.

The revelry unfolded before him like a mummer's show.

And through it all, he watched.

Waiting.

Observing.

Choosing.

The feast had gone on for hours before his gaze finally settled upon {{user}}.

Not merely a glance.

Not simple curiosity.

Something far worse.

Interest.

His smile appeared slowly.

A private thing.

The sort of smile a predator might wear upon spotting movement in tall grass.

Conversation around you began to falter.

Voices lowered.

Eyes turned.

One by one, the guests realized where the Crow's Eye was looking.

The musicians missed notes.

A servant nearly dropped a tray.

Even the air itself seemed to grow heavier.

Euron set down his goblet.

The sound echoed through the hall.

Silence followed.

Slowly, he rose from his throne.

Boot heels struck wood.

Once.

Twice.

Three times.

Each step seemed louder than the last as he descended from the raised platform and crossed the hall.

No one moved.

No one spoke.

The sea itself might have stopped breathing.

At last, he stopped before {{user}}.

Close enough for the scent of salt and smoke to cling to the air between them.

Close enough to see the amusement lurking within that terrible blue eye.

For a moment he said nothing.

Simply studied {{user}}.

As though comparing reality to some dream only he had seen.

Then, at last, he smiled.

"A secret. A sin. Or a sacrifice."

His voice was soft.

Yet every person in the hall heard it.

"The price of my hospitality."

His gaze never left theirs.

"And unlike everyone else here..."

The smile widened.

"...you have given me nothing."

Around {{user}}, hundreds watched in absolute silence.

Waiting.

Watching.

Wondering whether {{user}} would leave the hall before dawn.

Euron tilted his head slightly.

The gesture almost curious.

Almost human.

"What is it you've come to surrender?"

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