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THE FORSAKEN VOW 

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"A MAN'S HEART IS A WRETCHED, WRETCHED THING.
IT ISN'T LIKE A MOTHER'S WOMB. IT WON'T BLEED.
IT WON'T STRETCH TO MAKE ROOM FOR YOU."

━ KHALED HOSSEINI

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SUMMARY
( flowers BLOOM until they
ROT and FALL APART )

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ELINOR HIGHTOWER has sworn too many vows in her life for someone so young. She's sworn to be faithful to her husband, sworn to obey the crown and future heir of the Iron throne, sworn to be dutiful and poised and a perfect lady at every turn.

But Elinor Hightower was once ELINOR TULLY, a precocious girl of five and ten who was all too excited to attend a tourney at her Uncle's castle at Harrhenhall, a beauty with dreams hidden in her fiery red hair and an unfortunate resemblance to the newly late wife of Ser Otto Hightower, who was participating in said tourney.

There was little she could do once she had been named the Queen of Love and Beauty, and not even the loud protests of Ser Otto's daughter were enough to deter Elinor's father nor the man himself from arranging the betrothal and the wedding soon after.

And so Elinor Tully was no more, instead Elinor Hightower remained, a poor shell of the girl she had once been and only five years older than her now stepdaughter. Barely able to experience the life that was promised to her, a life with no courtly expectations or pressure from above, as that's all ripped from her the moment she arrives in King's Landing.

But even in confinement, Elinor isn't quite as defanged as her husband would have hoped. Instead she finds comfort and solace in the dragon prince himself, Daemon Targaryen, a victim of circumstance much like herself, even if those circumstances couldn't be more different.

But the world around her changes as quickly as the leaves from the heart tree fall, and when Rhaenyra Targaryen is named heir in the wake of Prince Daemon's exile, a series of events that Elinor never could have foreseen occurs, and somehow she is directly in the center of it all.

And the vows she took in danger of breaking.

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ENSEMBLE
( THE CAST OF
CHARACTERS )

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sophie skelton as ELINOR HIGHTOWER

━ THE RIVER MAID

matt smith as DAEMON TARGARYEN

━ THE ROGUE PRINCE

WITH

sam heughan as ELMO TULLY
florence pugh as ELYSSA TULLY
toby stephens as OSCAR TULLY
heida reed as SERA TULLY
lotte verbeek as MARA STRONG

AND

rhys ifans as OTTO HIGHTOWER
emily carey as ALICENT HIGHTOWER
paddy considine as VISERYS TARGARYEN
milly alcock as RHAENYRA TARGARYEN
ryan corr as HARWIN STRONG

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PLAYLIST

I. THE WILLOW  MAID, erutan. II. FLOWERS, eva noblezada. III. MY JOLLY SAILOR BOLD, the hound + the fox. IV. EASY ON ME, adele. V. ME AND MY HUSBAND, mistki. VI. GIRL WITH ONE EYE, florence + the machine. VII. THE ARCHER, taylor swift. VIII. NOTHING NEW, taylor swift. IX. BIRD ON A WIRE, simone istwa. X. MY TEARS RICOCHET, taylor swift. XI. DIRTY PAWS, of monsters and men. XII. TOLERATE IT, taylor swift. XIII. SLOW DANCING IN A BURNING ROOM, john mayer. XIV. BALLROOM OF ROMANCE, celtic women. XV. TOUCH THE SKY, julie fowlis. XVI. RUN, daughter. XVII. BROKEN CROWN, mumford and sons. XVIII. PRAYER FACTORY, florence + the machine. XIX. DREAM GIRL, idina menzel. XX. NO CHOIR, florence + the machine. XXI. THE MOON WILL SING, the crane wives. XXII. KING, florence + the machine. XXIII. HEY LITTLE SONGBIRD, patrick page.

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C R E D I T S

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ARRTHURPENDRAGON

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DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN OWN HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, ASOIAF, OR FIRE AND BLOOD. I ONLY OWN ELINOR AND ANY OTHER CHARACTERS YOU DO NOT RECOGNIZE. PLEASE DO NOT STEAL.

WARNINGS: I MEAN IT'S GAME OF THRONES. THIS STORY INCLUDES EMOTIONAL, VERBAL, AND PHYSICAL ABUSE, REFERENCES TO SEXUAL ASSAULT, AGE GAP RELATIONSHIPS, REFERENCES TO SEXUAL ACTS WITH MINORS, TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS, VIOLENCE, BLOOD, AND GORE. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.