House of the Dragon: The Dragon’s Frenzy
by TranslatingFanfics
120 AC. The shores of Blackwater Bay. Princess Rhaenys Targaryen, the Queen Who Never Was, keeps a dangerous secret: a silver-haired boy named Aeron, born after her marriage to Lord Corlys Velaryon and raised in obscurity among the fisherfolk of a rocky coastal village. Known only as a bastard, he lives apart from the glory of High Tide and Driftmark. The sole link between mother and son is a quiet, irregular shipment of healing salve that arrives from Dragonstone—silent evidence of the blood he must never claim. Then the tides bring a dragon. Sheepstealer, the mud-brown wild dragon that has long made its lair in the smoking caverns of the Dragonmont, is driven from its usual hunting grounds between Driftmark and the Wendwater. One wing is torn and festering, crusted with salt from the sea. When the creature’s pain stirs something deep in Aeron’s Valyrian blood, the boy understands what must be done. Healing the dragon may be the only path that leads away from a life of scorn and silence. Yet the threat closes fast. The fleet of Corlys Velaryon, the Sea Snake and Lord of the Tides, has already moved into position. Great scorpions and ballistae stand ready to bring the wounded beast down into the deep. Local cruelty, the cold indifference of those who raised him, and the impossible choices forced upon his mother all tighten like a noose. Far from the village, the great houses continue their quiet dance around the Iron Throne, unaware that a single bond forged in desperation may change everything. Before the next dawn, Aeron must seal a life-or-death pact with the injured wild dragon. Their flight will not merely free a bastard and a broken creature—it will cast a living shadow across the realm nine years too soon, altering the path that leads toward the coming war between Rhaenyra and Aegon. The salt wind rises. The frenzy is about to begin. — Description from novelcodex.org
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