121 A.C
~King's Landing~

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Alyssa's perspective:
I was rushing down the corridors of the Red Keep, mother's violent cries of pain and surrow reaching to my ears, she was on the edge of giving birth again, the fourth time after Jace, Luke and me so I had to be there for her furthermore I was so eager to be the first one to meet my new sibling and finally become the older sister after nearly a decade.

"Open up!" I ordered knocking at the door from mother's apartments, the sound of her cries was more heartbreaking being this close to her. A midwife opened the door just a little to meet my gaze as she told me "We're apologizing, young princess. But you can't be with your mother for a few hours" then she quickly shoot the door in my face before I was even able to protest about this.

"But I need to be with her! Hey!" I hit the door with my palm hardly this time but the midwives were probably too focused on my mother's endeavors to stay alive and I didn't blame them, childbirth is a woman's battlefield. That was what my grandmother, Queen Aemma, used to say before she had lost her own battle in giving birth to my mother's little brother Baelon who had died aswell.

Angrily and fully disappointed I returned to the apartement me and my brothers usually share with mother when we talk about how our day has been or when we celebrate the nameday of one of us together. Just a few moons ago, it was mine, I had turned ten already and mother told me I have a little time until my bloodmoon to start and my childhood to be over which I'm very  eager to see how it will happen, mother says that I should enjoy my years of being a child because the youth is a beautiful, but complicated period in the life of a woman.

'They didn't let you in, did they?' my brother Jacaerys asked getting up from the sofa as I entered the apartment. 'Unfortunately no' I scoffed crossing my arms to my chest just to hear a laugh coming from Ser Harwin Strong, mother's sworn protector, and our dearest friend. 'Don't be upset, princess. It's better for you to not see yet, you'll find how giving birth is on your own someday' he told me with a soft reasurring smile on which I nodded slightly, but inside of me I still felt furious.

I spun around the room with my hands folded behind my back until I hit the table where the dark bowl for my new sibling's egg must have been. 'Be careful, Aly!' Jace scolded me like always when he believe I did something wrong. 'I'm sorry' I scoffed rolling my eyes as I looked down into the bowl and to my surprise the space was empty. 'Wait! What?!' I mumbled looking more carefully in it with my hands leaning on the table.

'But... where is the egg?' I asked turning around to face them and earning chuckles from both my older brothers Jacaerys and Lucerys. 'What's so funny?' I said with my eyebrows furrowed. Luce smirked at Jace saying 'The egg must be chosen, silly'. I blinked few times hearing my brother's answer, I knew they must well chosen but the question that didn't left my mind was why haven't they chose one already?

'And... because I was the one to choose for Luce' Jace spoke with a smile. 'And I for you' Luce continued smilling at me softly making my cheeks turn pink a bit. 'We both agreed that you should be the one to pick this time' Lucerys added.  I couldn't be more happier, I jumped up and down before running into my brothers' arms giggling and muttering 'thank you' the whole time. 'Let's go! Let's go!' I exclaimed grabbing both my brothers by the arm and dragging them towards the door.

'Wait, princess! It would be wiser to have be accompanied, wouldn't it?' Ser Harwin pointed out making the three of us stop, wanting nothing more than to go and pick an egg for my new baby brother or sister I didn't have a choice than to accept.

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We wandered down the halls of the Red Keep, the Dragonpit was not far from the castel, it is a huge cavenous building that sits atop the Hill of Rhaenys and one of my favourite place from the capital. Firstly because it's home for my sweet brave little Emberly, and secondly for the fact that I can speak and with that learn new words in high valyrian from the dragonkeepers. Not that I don't study in the library or when we have lessons even if they are usually boring, but due to the fact that these keepers who are taking really good care of my family's dragons are the only people besides The Targaryens who can master this complicated old beautiful language, high valyrian.

I am waked from my dreams and thoughts when I hear Ser Harwin greeting the Queen accompanied by none other than Ser Criston Cole. I've never liked that creepy guy, his presence convey me a strange anxious condition.

'Princes, Princess' Cole bowed to us as me and my brothers nodded solemly after giving our respects to Queen Alicent. Even if mother and the Queen were not so fond of each other, she always tells us to have prise and be on good behavior. I personally don't have anything towards the Queen, she may not be so friendly or open-minded but she was never mean to me nor my brothers, even she usually gives to Jace and Luce bizarre and underwheelmed looks which I never got, the people say it is because of my hair, silver-gold and pale shade of purple in my eyes that is hidden by the brown, this is how I'm different from my brothers who have brown hair and chocolate eyes with no feature of Velaryon or Targaryen in them. I consider it stupidity to judge some kids just because of their genes and looks.

'Alyssa, sweetling, where are you... all rushing to?' The Queen asked trying to hide her disgusted grimace at the sight of Ser Harwin alongside with me, Luce and Jace.
'To the Dragonpit, your grace. To pick an egg for my baby brother or sister' I responded with my hands folded behind my back swinging cutely on my anklebones.

'Oh, Good Luck with that, I pressume... Maybe this time you'll have a sibling that looks more like you or your father' she mumbled the second phase making Ser Criston grin slightly. Not a second later Harwin cleared his throat to catch our attention as a sign to hurry and for other motives that I couldn't understand, Luce grabbed my hand and ran with me to the exit of the castel into the yard where a carriage was waiting for us.

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Arriving before the Dragonpit was the most impatiently thing to do for me, all I could think about was the eggs that I was going to see and to even touch one made me for excited as I jumped up and down in the carriage unable to find a place to sit. Ser Harwin laughed at my attitude and boldness saying that I reminded him of one of his sisters who was now married to a lord living a happy life I don't know where.

The moment, the carriage stopped I was the first one to step out of it and started to run towards the entrance of the pit not paying attention or hearing the shouts coming from my brothers and Ser Harwin. I was welcomed by two old gatekeepers who looked at me in question before I told or tried my best to make them understand the reason I was there, finally after several stumbles of mine in pronnouncing dragon egg in high valyrian the keepers nodded their heads and showed me to the cave where they were keeping the eggs.

"Gods, Aly! Don't ever run away like that!" Jace called as he and Luke were catching upon me, heavily breathing. I didn't pay much attention to their comments, my mind spinning and my eyes searching for the best egg that I will put in my newborn sibling's craddle. The choices were many and hard to refuse, a golden with orange spark on the scales, another one with shades of blue-ocean, finally my eyes landed on a black mixed with red oval egg. I pulled up my hand in order to take the egg, my fingers slowly and gently touching the scales admiring their perfect shape, I adored dragons especially the eggs, my secret wish was to take part to a female dragon who would give birth to her children and see the little dragons coming out of the eggs. I've never got to witness when Emberly was born because she decided to come out at night while I was peacefully sleeping and in the morning to be cheered by my brothers who were beyond pround of the fact that I had a dragon for myself just like them.

"You've chosen it as I can notice" Lucerys made me shiver a bit as he spoke waking me up from my dreaming mind and forcing me to look at him. I nodded quickly as I put the egg under my arm and turned around to exit the cave.

"But... we just got here" my eldest brother breathed out still tired after I put him run after me, I smirked as I passed by him "Come on, my future king. It's not so hard to beat a girl" I whispered before running fastly towards the entrance where Ser Harwin was expecting us.
"She did it again" Lucerys said with a chuckle as Jacaerys sighed in annoyace "I hate when she does it"

"Princess? All good already?" Harwin asked raising his eyebrows noticing that I ran passed him to the carriage. "Yes, yes. Now can we go see my mother?" I asked impatiently, I needed to see that she was alright and to bring this new egg for my new sister, which I hardly prayed to be. "Finally, what took you so long if I may ask?" my thin voice cracked as Jace and Luce climbed up into the carriage, Harwin closing the door before we began marching back to the castel.

"Oh I don't know, maybe tiredness?!" Jace barked at me as I scoffed not understanding why he was complaining so much, didn't they want to see mother all good and well? to lock eyes with their new little sister? "Aly? Why are you so stressed about?" Luce spoke calmy from beside me placing his hand on my shoulder. "I just want mother to be okay" I mumbled under my breath anxiously touching a few scales that covered the egg.
"She will. I promise" Luce reassured me and Jace nodded agreeing with him as I looked at both of my brothers with a small smile, hoping deeply down that their words to be true.

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As soon as the carriage had stopped in the yard of the Red Keep, it didn't take me much to start run again into the corridors of the castel. The servants and knights all watched me storm off through the building, some of them offering my help or asking if i was alright but I wasn't. I was excited, overjoyed and impatient to meet mother's violet eyes, too see her beautiful angelic face and to hear her calm sweet voice while she would rub my golden hair so gently that I'd fall asleep in her arms. I didn't even asked the guard outside her apartment if i could go in, I just ran inside not even closing the door after me. My eyes landed on mother who was sitting on the sofa holding a small little babe in her arms rocking it softly.

"Mom?" I breathed so low that I was sure I wasn't hearing my own voice. The Targaryen woman slowly titled her chin up meeting my eyes with a pure genuine smile lingering across her lips.
"Come" the woman called cuing me to walk closer, to meet my new sibling, finally I wasn't going to be the youngest anymore.

"His name is Joffrey" mother whispered after I sat next to her on the sofa, catching the image of the asleep innocent child. My face made a grimace as I looked away from the child crossing my arms to my chest and sighing. Mother started to chuckle seeing the way my reaction was so irrelevant before she placed her hand on my head, her fingers brushing my locks with her gentleness.

"What's wrong, sweetling?" Rhaenyra asked looking down at me with a genuine smile.
"I am now the only girl, surronded by boys! I really wanted a sister..." my voice cracked as a scoffed looking up at my mother who placed a soft kiss on her forhead.

"One day you will, I promise. And hey, look at good part, your brothers are the best ones you could ever asked for, they will always take care of you" the woman uttered as I nodded smilling at her, mother was right, as always. My brothers were the best compared to what Helaena had to go through with hers, especially the older one, in other words I was very lucky.

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The door opened again, Jace, Luke, Ser Harwin and father walking in, Jace and Luke looking at me with a displeased expression making me giggle, they always were angry when I stormed away from their sight and that made me feel superior over them.

"Mother, we brought this egg for the babe. I let Alyssa choose it" Luke said placing the egg into the cradle, I got up from the sofa and walked towards my brother. "And I thank you for that" I said kissing him softly on the cheek from behind, he turned around with a grin "This won't change the fact that I am upset about you always leaving us behind" he said but I could notice his face lighting up a bit, with my hands folded behind my back I bit the inside of my lips as I walked back to the door, as I could remember we had lessons with our dragons.

"Father, may I hold Joffrey, please?" Luke asked with his arms opened wanting to see his brother aswell but Laenor shook his head "No, back to the Dragonpit for you three" he scolded them while pushing my brothers out of the chambers. "Before they send out a search party for us" my father mumbled as we walked out of mother's apartments, his comment making me giggle and my brothers giving me a glance.

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