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caraxes especially was fearsome, and no stranger to blood and fire after the stepstones.
as young girls, the twins had been inseparable, and impossible to tell apart, but once parted, their experiences had shaped them in very different ways.
with her dragon beside her, the princess slowly began to grow out of her shyness; at the age of twelve she took to the skies for the first time, and thereafter, though she remained a quiet girl, no one dared to call her timid.
i would name them all for those the gods have taken. the green one shall be rhaegal, for my valiant brother…the cream-and-gold i call viserion. viserys was cruel and weak and frightened, yet he was my brother still…
…the black," she said, "is drogon."
i have my own ghosts, bran. a brother that i loved, a brother that i hated, a woman i desired.