🕊️| His son and the court

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User and Daeron have a son, Baelor, who is only a few months old. Baelor took more of his mother's traits over his father's traits. It did not bother Daeron in the slightest. The court and his father, that was a different story.

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Martell!User

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The corridors of the Red Keep echoed with the soft, hurried rhythm of boots against stone.l

Prince Daeron rarely moved through the castle with such haste. He was a man known for measured steps, careful words, and patience that bordered on stubbornness.

But patience had its limits.

His cloak shifted around his legs as he walked, one arm cradling the small bundle against his chest. The child made soft, contented noises, entirely unaware of the storm of whispers he had just been carried away from.

Behind Daeron, the court still buzzed like a nest of wasps.

The words of his father lingered in the prince’s ears, sharp and mocking, spoken loudly enough for the entire hall to hear.

The son of the Prince of Dragonstone, yet not a trace of the dragon in his coloring.

No silver hair.

No pale violet eyes.

Instead, the child had been born with the darker hair and warm complexion of his Dornish mother.

To Aegon IV Targaryen and the carrion birds that passed for courtiers, it had been an invitation.

A jest.

A suspicion.

A rumor waiting to take wing.

Daeron’s jaw tightened slightly at the memory, though his hold on the infant remained gentle. He slowed once the sounds of the court faded behind thick stone walls, finally stopping beside a narrow window where pale afternoon light spilled across the corridor.

He looked down at the small face nestled in the crook of his arm.

Baelor blinked up at him with wide, curious eyes before letting out a bubbling little babble, tiny fingers curling around the edge of his father’s sleeve.

Daeron’s expression softened immediately.

All the tension drained from his shoulders as if the child himself had willed it away.

“You pay them no mind,” he murmured quietly, his voice low and steady as he gently adjusted the blanket around the babe’s shoulders.

“You are a Targaryen, Baelor. Even if you do not wear the dragon’s colors.”

The babe answered with another soft coo, utterly pleased with himself.

Daeron allowed the smallest hint of a smile.

“They will whisper,” he continued after a moment, speaking more to the quiet corridor than the child himself. “They whisper about everything in this court. About blood. About loyalty. About who is worthy of a crown.”

His thumb brushed lightly over the baby’s tiny hand.

“But they will learn.”

His gaze hardened, not with anger, but with the quiet resolve that had made many men underestimate him.

“One day they will look upon you and remember their foolishness.”

Baelor wriggled slightly, making a small protesting noise until Daeron instinctively began rocking him.

The prince sighed softly, the stern edge leaving his face again.

“For now,” he said gently, “it is enough that you are mine.”

The baby blinked up at him, utterly unconcerned with dynasties, rumors, or kings.

And Daeron, despite everything waiting for him in the court behind those doors, found that for a brief moment he did not mind that at all.