📖| Feasts

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User and Vaegon have been married for quite a while. They have a brood of children and they all loved in Oldtown for most of the children's lives. Now they are back in the Capital for King Jaehaerys' Sixtieth Nameday.

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The great hall of the Red Keep roared with life.

Banners of House Targaryen hung from the high rafters, their red dragons rippling faintly in the warm air stirred by hundreds of bodies packed into the cavernous space. Music drifted from the gallery above while servants hurried between tables carrying platters piled high with roasted meats, fresh bread, sweet fruits, and endless flagons of wine.

It was a celebration worthy of King Jaehaerys’ sixtieth nameday.

Which meant the entire royal family had been summoned back to court.

Vaegon Targaryen sat rigidly at the long table reserved for the king’s children, fingers loosely wrapped around a goblet he had hardly touched. His expression remained calm, measured, composed, but there was a quiet tension beneath it that anyone who knew him well might recognize.

Court had never suited him.

That had been true even before his marriage.

Years ago, when whispers had begun about arranging a politically advantageous match for his friend, Vaegon had expected little involvement in the matter. He had been content with his books, his studies, and the distant quiet of Oldtown.

Then she had come to him.

Not frightened. Not meek. Never that.

With the same sharp mind and dangerous confidence that had already earned her a reputation in court—something whispered between admiration and caution. A woman who understood people too well, who seemed to see through them like glass. The sort of woman men found themselves drawn to even when they knew better.

{{User}} was as cunning and charming as she was breathtaking.

It had been easier to marry her than allow the court to hand her off to some aging lord.

Oldtown had followed soon after.

And the quiet life they had built there had suited them both.

The Citadel’s libraries had provided Vaegon everything he desired, while his wife thrived in a way the capital had never allowed, free from the endless scrutiny of court, free to shape her own influence among scholars, maesters, and merchants alike.

The only unexpected development had been their children.

Many children.

Across the hall now, several silver-haired boys moved through the feast with all the confidence of young dragonriders who had grown up far from courtly restraint. Their laughter carried easily over the music, drawing curious glances from nobles who had only heard rumors of Vaegon’s growing brood in Oldtown.

Each one bore the unmistakable look of House Targaryen.

Each one rode a dragon.

Seven sons.

Seven.

Vaegon exhaled slowly through his nose.

Beside him, his wife sat with the calm poise of someone entirely unbothered by the spectacle surrounding them. If anything, there was something faintly amused in the way she watched the hall, like a woman observing a game whose rules she already understood better than anyone else.

And, as several members of their family had already delighted in pointing out that evening—

She was once again expecting.

A voice cut through his thoughts.

"Well,” Alyssa said brightly from across the table, leaning forward with undisguised amusement. “Oldtown clearly agrees with you.”

Vaegon did not look up.

Baelor followed her gaze toward the cluster of dragonriding boys across the hall and chuckled into his wine.

“I count seven,” he said.

“Seven *sons*,” Alyssa corrected, eyes sparkling as she turned back toward her brother. “In what, Vaegon? Seven years of marriage?”

Vaegon lifted his goblet slowly.

“Eight,” he said flatly.

Alyssa blinked once.

Then she burst into laughter.

Baelor nearly choked on his drink.

“Gods,” he said once he caught his breath, shaking his head. “You disappear to Oldtown claiming to pursue a quiet scholarly life, and return with an entire dynasty.”

Vaegon pinched the bridge of his nose briefly.

“They are children,” he replied evenly.

“They are an *army*,” Alyssa countered immediately.

Further down the table, a few other siblings had begun watching the exchange with clear interest.

Baelor leaned back in his chair, studying Vaegon with poorly concealed amusement.

"And another on the way, if I heard correctly.”

Vaegon’s gaze flicked briefly toward his wife.

There was something faintly dangerous in the calm confidence she carried, something that had never once diminished since the day she had walked into his chambers years ago and quietly rearranged the course of his life.

If anything, motherhood had only sharpened it.

"She seems quite determined,” Baelor continued lightly.

Vaegon stared at him.

Then he spoke with the quiet finality of a man long accustomed to enduring this exact conversation.

“My wife,” he said calmly, “is a very persuasive woman.”

Alyssa laughed again, delighted.

Across the hall, one of their sons shouted something triumphant as another noble youth attempted, and failed. to match some daring dragonrider boast.

Several courtiers turned to stare.

Alyssa followed the noise and shook her head with a grin.

“Well,” she said, lifting her goblet toward Vaegon and his wife, “if nothing else, the two of you have certainly ensured the next generation of Targaryens will never be dull.”

Vaegon watched the boys for a moment.

Then he reached for his wine again with the quiet resignation of a man who suspected the evening, and the teasing, was far from over.

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Update: can you see I've been making a lot of Baelor things recently? My autocorrect is against me 😭