The Princess and the Pauper

I'd watched Milady from afar. Her hair the shade of Winter, her eyes the most startling blue, and her heart and strength that of the dragons she bore as some say from her womb. I wanted to know her, but I was fearful of the strength that I saw deep within Milady's depths, but that fear did not stop me from inching closer and closer to her in my spying as she chatted with some commoner or another.

I was too enraptured with the woman before me to notice that she had stopped walking until suddenly she was peering at me from only a few feet away. I did not know what to do and I hoped that she felt no transgressions towards my persons. I bowed deeply, "Milady, I did not mean to follow you without your permission. I only sought to gaze upon you for a while. I meant no offense." I bit my lip unsure of what was to become of me, but then I heard a clearing of a voice. "You may stand." She walks closer to me, and I bow even more deeply for fear that I may be offensive. Milady chided me softly and twirled a lock of my dark hair between her fingertips and I shivered in reaction. I chanced a glance up, and her eyes lit with an inner mischief that I could not out right discern, but she smiled at me before turning her back, and saying over her shoulder, "You will accompany me to my chamber. I seek to play a game of cards. Are you up for the challenge girl or do you have better things to do?" I stammered, for it was not every day that you were permitted an audience with Princess Daenerys of House Targaryen the breaker of chains. "Y-yes Milady of course."

After a short ride on horseback, we arrive at Dragonstone. I was always fearful of the place, and in truth I was scared of Miladies dragons. I shuffled closer to Daenerys who reached out and enfolded her warm fingers with mine. "You have nothing to fear dark angel, my children would never hurt you." I nodded my head trusting Milady to protect me as we made our way to her rooms.

It was dark in the bedroom when we arrived and I shivered slightly. Milady seeing my reaction to the chill of the room pulled me closer to the fire, ''Here let us sit dark angel and get to know one another so that we may play our game as friends." I nodded once more and sat Indian style on the floor in front of the fire. I did not yet fully understand why I was graced with my Milady's presence, but I was not one to look a gift horse in its mouth, and I was ever thankful for her kindness. Daenerys tapped her chin in wonderment as she sat down next to me. In wonder at what I did not know, but she smiled. "You're beautiful do you not know that?" I bit my lip at that question. I had been called fair by many of those who did not mean it in my short life. "Milady men do not look at me, I am without title or means." Daenerys shook her head at that, "I knew you were following me. I saw you, dark angel. I.." She peered at me through fathomless blue eyes, "See you." Milady ran her fingers through my hair, massaging the tresses. She gently touches my face with her fingers, trailing over each point before stopping at my lips and tapping them once, then twice. I parted them on impulse and my breath catches. Milady smiles, "There she is. Do you know why I have invited you to my home?" I knew from the moment those eyes penetrated me to my soul what she wanted from me. I looked into her eyes then, pretenses be damned, "Yes Milady you seek to lay with me?" She laughed then and got up from the Indian position that she had been sitting in to play the card game. Daenerys reaches for my hand, and pulls me up and then close, "Anyone can lie with you dark angel. I want to explore the depths of who you are. I want to open you up, devour you, and then own you. Not like those slavers who owned you before, I set you free, but something pure and honest and I want you all to myself." I gasped, "Milady, I do not know what to say to this." Daenerys strokes my cheek, "Just stay with me tonight, I do not wish to sleep alone." I entwined my fingers with Miladies, "I would want nothing less."

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