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  Thrid Person POV

  Essos, 296 AC.

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  In Lys, a rather peculiar situation was unfolding at the moment as the ship from Myr finally arrived in Lys, dog at a mansion located at one of the far ends of the city.

  This pce beloo Zahn Maerys, the most powerful magister in Lys. As he approached the location, having learned about the ship's arrival after hearing what had happened in Myr through ravens, he felt a certain ess settling in.

  A woman stood by his side, his first wife, running toward the port with tears in her eyes as she saw the men disembarking from the ship, carrying a stretcher, with her son, Zafir Maerys—or part of him.

  "My Zafir!!" the woman cried hysterically as soon as she saw the state of her son being id on the ground. "How could they do this to my beloved Zafir!" Her despair was to be expected, Zahn thought, watg his eldest son looking at them with trembling eyes while his shaking hand tried to reach for his weeping mother.

  But Zahn was not so emotional. After all, he owerful mert, the greatest in Lys and one of the most iial in all of Westeros. anding calm, he approached and took o look at his son, who was being soled by his mother, and then walked toward the men who were supposed to take care of his son.

  "What is Zafir's dition… and how did this happen?" Zahn asked, while the man who was supposed to be his son's advisor trembled, kneeling before his lord.

  "He suffered multiple fractures, with broken bohe Arctig threw him against the wall as if he were nothing. Then, a strange bird appeared out of nowhere and attacked the prince... his face is heavily scarred from that. And finally, the Arctig himself seized our ships ao Zafir before castrating him in cold blood..." the man responded.

  "..." Zahn remained silent... he was trying to make sense of all this chaos. He would be cursed after this day, his reputation and that of his Maerys family would bee a joke among the isters of Essos, and it would also create tensioween them and Lys. The isters would not be pleased with this.

  "How could this happen... I was uhe impression that you were supposed to advise my son," Zahn said in a dark too the man.

  "My lord... your son was advised, but he never heeded my sel. I warned him of the sequences if he tried to challenge Jon Artica. Zafir attempted to seize the Arctic queen in front of aire party." The man murmured, trying to expin himself, though it wasn't a lie.

  "He's a monster! How could he do this to my Zafir!!" the woman excimed, fury in her voice.

  "Watch your words, woman. We are in a great deal of trouble now, and we may be fag a battle in the middle of the city..." Zahn said angrily.

  "Wait, you're not going to do anything?! They hurt your heir!!" She raised her voice, seeing that her husband was not immediately pnning to kill the Artis over this, but she was met with a sp to the face from her husband as soon as she finished speaking.

  "Do not raise your voie again... and that is no longer my heir," Zahn spoke in a somber tone as he turned back to his men.

  "Take him inside and see what still be saved of him." He spoke, as his men began to carry Zafir, their eyes tearful and full of fear after hearing their father, who had always spoiled him, speak to him in such a way. His mother followed with her face marked by the sp, g even louder after her husband's decision, but no longer daring to raise her voi.

  "Anything else I should know?" he asked.

  "Yes... the Arctig said that if Lys still wants a trade agreement, they should approach them... but if that happens and you seek revenge against any Arctic people... they will un atta Lys..." the advisor said, repeating Jon Artica's exact words.

  "Tsk..." Zahn seemed to pohis, clig his tongue before turning back to the men. "You will remain at the mansion," he said to the guards and the advisor who had apanied his son, and they khey would be dead not long after.

  "Yes, my lord..." the advisor responded in a submissive tone, clearly showing his fear.

  "Guards, e with me. We o meet with the isters. After all, Lys is fag a huge diplomatic crisis that my son caused with Myr, as far as I knorimarily because of a fleet of hundreds of ships. My son is far less intelligent than I had thought..." Zahn muttered angrily, though he merely tinued forward, needing to resolve the city's problems.

  While Lys reparing for war, the ship Jon was using to return to the fleet with Rhaenys was finally approag the fleet in front of them.

  "You look very beautiful," Jon, who had provided suitable clothing for Rhaenys as soon as he pnned her rescue, said as he saw her approach, wearing a proper Arctic dress for a woman nearly nine months pregnant.

  "Thank you... I'm a bit nervous about meeting aargaryen..." she murmured, while Jon avoided grimag and instead offered her a smile.

  "Well, let's go then, we're already approag the main ship," Jon said, leading Rhaenys outside as she g to his arm.

  The ship had already stopped o the main one, where everyone was waiting for the king to board the ship with his guest and the royal guards, while the other Arctis tio steer this ship.

  Rhaenys saw the whole group anized on the main ship, leaving a path for them to board, after they pced a ramp with steps on both sides for them to cross.

  Johe way, ensuring Rhaenys desded safely, while the Targaryen aid closer attention to everyone present. The Arctic queen, with her blood-red hair, was staring at her with narrowed eyes, as if judging her. Arya seemed to offer her a small smile, and another womaiced was the girl near Arya and Ygritte, with an appearahat was unmistakably Valyrian. She hadn't even noticed the child of the forest hem, while both their violet eyes locked onto each other, as if they finally uood that they were no longer alohere was someone else like them.

  "I see you've succeeded in your rescue, my husband and king," Ygritte was the first to speak as Jon approached.

  "You could say that, my wife and queen," Jon replied with a smile, and Ygritte smiled back.

  Journed back to Rhaenys, "Let me introduce you all to Rhaenys Targaryen," Jon said as he addressed the other women on behalf of Rhaenys.

  "You already know my wife, and Arya Stark," Jon said, as Rhaenys noticed Jon did not refer to Arya as his sister, and he tinued, "Now, let me introduce your aunt. Daenerys Targaryen."

  Daenerys offered a sincere smile, feeling the same emotions she had seen in Jon. "It's a pleasure to meet my brother's daughter... and I'm gd you're happy. After all, we're not the only Targarye..." she said as she approached, though she had some doubts about the pregnancy... not expeg to find her niece pregnant, and having no idea that the father was Jon himself, Daenerys refrained from asking questions about it, after all, she had just met Rhaenys.

  "Daenerys... Jon told me about you, and I'm happy to finally meet you. After all, it's so good to see that we Targaryens are still alive." Rhaenys remarked as she turo the other two women she had yet to greet.

  "Queen Ygritte, Lady Stark..." she greeted them while holding her belly.

  "Hello, Rhaenys," Ygritte responded in a calm tone.

  "Wele," Arya said, still smiling.

  "You did a good job, nephew." Daenerys looked at Jon with a glimmer of admiration.

  "Nephew?" Rhaenys looked at Jon, bewildered, not uanding why Daenerys had called him that, while Jon sighed and g his sister.

  "Let's go inside first. It's time we had a serious versation," Jon said in a serious tone, causing Rhaenys to raise an eyebrow at the statement but not ask too many questions.

  "I'll talk to her, so I need some privacy... Please, e with me, Rhaenys..." Jon requested, and though Rhaenys didn't quite uand, she obediently followed Jon, leaving the group behind and walking ihe ship to Jon's main quarters.

  "What was that, she ignored me too..." Wind ented from the side, noting that Rhaenys hadn't even gnced her way.

  "..." Daenerys also didn't quite uand what had just happened.

  Ygritte sighed and decided to expin. "Rhaenys doesn't know that Jon is her brother..."

  "What? He didn't tell her?" Daenerys looked surprised.

  "It's because Rhaenys' child... is Jon's," Arya responded.

  "Are you serious...? So they..." Daenerys murmured.

  "Yes... they ended up sleeping together..." Arya said.

  "She's pregnant, and Jon fears for the baby, but he won't marry her without tellihe truth first... Now we'll wait. Jon will ha, as he always does," Ygritte said.

  Meanwhile, in Jon's quarters, Ghost lifted his head as the door opened, and Joered with Rhaenys by his side. "Ghost..." Rhaenys murmured as soon as she saw him, approag befently toug his head. The direwolf didn't recoil; instead, he licked her hand and looked at her belly with a gleam in his red eyes.

  "You're so handsome now, Ghost," Rhaenys murmured, notig the clear differences in him. "You've growaller, or is it just me?" she remarked, looking to Jon for firmation.

  Jon nodded, a small smile appearing on his face. "Yes, he's grown quite a bit. He's now three meters tall. Some call him Fenrir, a mythical wolf, as he's the rgest wolf in this world..." Jon ented, as Ghost had indeed grown enormous.

  They were fortuhe doors of this ship were rge enough for him to pass through, and this was the only ship that could house him inside.

  Rhaenys ran her hand host o time before her gaze shifted to the paintings done by Ygritte, which were scattered around the room, either leaning against the walls or framed.

  "These are very good... These are the paintings you mentioned Ygritte made. They're so beautiful..." she murmured, and Jon couldn't disagree.

  "Yes, my queen has a talent even I didn't know about," he said with a smile.

  Rhaenys nodded and looked at him. "What did you want to talk to me about? Why did Daenerys suddenly call you nephew?" she asked, notig Jon's mood shift the moment those words were spoken, a tension rising in the air.

  "e, sit down." Jon immediately asked, guidio the bed as he helped her by the waist. Rhaenys looked at him, curious about everything, while Jarded her with an even more serious expression.

  "Listen, Rhaenys, there's something about me that you didn't know. Something I didn't even know myself. It was only after I arrived in Artica that I finally learned," Jon began.

  "Jon, what do you mean by that?" Rhaenys was lost. She didn't uand where he was going with this.

  Jon got straight to the point. "I found out that I'm your brother, Rhaenys. I am the son ar and Lyanna Stark," he said.

  Jon could see her eyes slowly widening as she began to grasp the meaning of his words, before they started trembling.

  "You mean that..." she murmured weakly.

  "Yes, we are half-siblings." He spoke firmly, his voice steady. The reality might be harsh, but it wouldn't ge with pretty words.

  "..." Rhaenys froze, staring at Jon.

  "This means that Jon Artica is the father of your child... Your Brother..." Jon tinued, as Rhaenys began tle to breathe, looking at Jon with a mix of fear and shock. She didn't even notice wheouched her.

  "Rhaenys!" He pced a hand on her shoulder as he saw her on the verge of colpsing from the news. She couldn't hear him. "Rhaenys!" Jon called her again, but her eyes remained bnk, staring into nothingness.

  He tried giving her geaps on the face as she gasped for air, but she was still in a trance, only beginning to react.

  Jon quickly realized that the shock had triggered something, something that could affect the child as well. He would never let that happen... Without wasting any time, he tore her dress, pg one hand on her belly and the other on her forehead, while his powers began to glow.

  He focused on stabilizing her and the child, ensuring that the shock wouldn't be so severe as to cause a miscarriage... their son's life was on the line.

  Jon stayed there for minutes, with Rhaenys still irance, breathing only with Jon's help, and slowly calming down thanks to his healing. He remained until she finally drifted into a deep sleep, her fragile state easing as her breathing steadied.

  Jon sighed, carefully settling her into the bed, cheg to make sure everything was alright. He sighed in relief when he saw that both his sister and the baby were stabilized.

  "I khis could happen... but I didn't want to tihout telling the truth." He murmured, deg to wait for her to wake up so they could talk. He sat by the bed for hours. Ygritte came by to che them, and Jon expihe situation.

  She brought some fresh food for Rhaenys to eat when she woke up a after setting up a guard for them. Jon remaihere until Ghost lifted his head, signaling that Rhaenys was finally waking up. Jon looked at the girl, not having taken his eyes off her for the st few hours, carefully watg over her.

  Rhaenys opened her eyes and found herself ba the ship, staring at Jon's ceiling. She clearly remembered what had happened before her episode. While irance, she had thought about everything she had heard. Jon was her father's son, born to the woman from the North, the one she used to bme for her family's downfall.

  "It's really true, Jon?" she simply murmured, still staring at the ceiling, avoiding his gaze, knowing he was right beside her the whole time.

  "Yes, Rhaenys, we are siblings," Jon firmed in a calm tone.

  "And what do you pn to do?" she murmured, looking at Jon as tears began to fall from her eyes. After all, this was the man she loved. She was in total flict at the moment; there was love, sadness, fear, and even passion for him.

  Jon looked at her seriously. "I want to know ohing first, Rhaenys. Do you hate me?" he asked.

  She looked at him, her eyes wide, and quickly shook her head. "No, I don't hate you. But I'm so fused..." she said.

  "But you hate my mother, right?" he asked again.

  "I don't know," she murmured, unsure of what to say, but deep down, she khe truth.

  "Actually, Rhaenys, I'm not a bastard. Rhaegar married my mother before I was born," he said, being pletely ho with her.

  "That's not possible!" she excimed.

  "I have the dots from the High Septon... He anhe marriage with Elia so that Rhaegar could marry Lyanna Stark. Although it didn't remove the Iron Throne from your family, the High Septon at the time anheir marriage and united Rhaegar with Lyanna..." Jon said.

  Rhaenys couldn't stop the tears from streaming down her face as she looked at Jon, hoping he was lying. After all, had her father discarded her mother? And beyond that, her entire family had beeroyed because of this.

  "Rhaenys, I'm going to be straightforward with you, and I'll pletely uand if you don't want to listen to or sider my words." Jon began, still with a serious tone. "I don't want to lose this baby, and I won't let him be born a bastard... I still want to marry you, and the Targaryens have never had an issue with that, after all." Jon said.

  "..." Rhaenys remained silent, tears streaming down her face... her world had just been turned upside down.

  Jon sighed before tinuing, his tone serious as he addressed his sister. "If you want to hate me, I'll uand. If you hate my mother, I'll uand that too. But, if after all of this, you still want to be with me, I won't accept you hating my mother because of it. I want you to think about our future and this baby." He stood up from the bed before tinuing.

  "Rhaenys, I'll be direct... I'm not ied in the Iron Throne, but you carry something important to me. And you are important to me as well." Jon said, maintaining his serious tone. "I'm going to leave you here to rest and think about everything. There's food and water, so eat, because I know this is a lot to digest... The only thing I ask is that you think about this child before thinking about us and our plicated retionship." He finished.

  Jon turo leave, seeing that Rhaenys didn't respond, only looking at him, lost in thought at that moment.

  He was about to leave the room when...

  "Jon..." Rhaenys's voice suddenly came weakly.

  "Yes..." Jon turned his face toward the girl lying in bed, looking at him with tears in her eyes.

  "You... you really love me... you know... everything we went through in Dorne... almost a year ago...?" she murmured, struggling to raise her voiough for Jon to hear.

  "Yes... part of me tells me that this is wrong... but if I said I regret everything, I'd be lying... And now you're my family, even if you hate me, and I feel something more than just our blood retion. So I will protect you for the rest of my life, even if you don't want to see me again." Jon said in the end.

  "..." Rhaenys said nothing more, only looking at him with tears.

  He then began to leave to give her time to think, leaving Ghost there to watch over her and alert him of any plications she might have. Joo a sed room, where Ygritte had prepared everything for them, and she was waiting for him at that moment.

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