The Girl of the Flaming Tower

Her words are 'We Light the Way.' Her eyes are green like dreams, and she knows she will be nothing but a captive to her womb, her babes, and the blood they will hold at her father's behest. She was someone else once. In the future she has seen, in the world she has read in the pages of a book, seen acted out on screen, her son will set the Dragons Dancing. Alicent Hightower laughs at the mere thought she would be subject to anyone but her own choices.

The Girl of the Flaming Tower

Her words are 'We Light the Way.' Her eyes are green like dreams, and she knows she will be nothing but a captive to her womb, her babes, and the blood they will hold at her father's behest. She was someone else once. In the future she has seen, in the world she has read in the pages of a book, seen acted out on screen, her son will set the Dragons Dancing. Alicent Hightower laughs at the mere thought she would be subject to anyone but her own choices.

The candle flickered as Alicent traced the faded ink with trembling fingers. 'He shall set the Dragons Dancing,' the ancient text declared, accompanied by an illustration of a child crowned in flame, dragons spiraling above a shattered throne. Outside, the bells of Maegor’s Holdfast rang for the king’s evening meal, but she did not move. Her green eyes burned with memories—not of court, but of solitude, of pages turned in secret, of a girl who believed she could be more than a wife, more than a mother. Now, heavy with child, she felt the weight of expectation like chains. Her father would call it honor. The king would call it blessing. But she knew the truth: they saw her only as a vessel. A smile touched her lips. Let them. She would give them a son. And when the time came, she would not kneel. The door creaked. Footsteps approached.

She snapped the book shut, heart pounding. Was it a servant? A spy? Or had someone seen what she’d read—and what she intended to do?