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The Sound of Beating Wings by TheCocodile
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV)
25 Apr 2026
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Summary
After Ashford Tourney, Prince Valarr Targaryen returns to a silence no victory can touch. His father lives. The realm endures. But the gods take their due regardless—his wife lost to blood and stillness, his child gone before breath ever came. And Valarr, ever composed, does what he has always done. He carries it. Not loudly. Not visibly. But with a weight that settles into bone and does not leave.
The realm does not grant him the luxury of standing still. He is heir to the heir still. And so the future is placed before him once more, not as choice—but as expectation. A second marriage. A new alliance. And this time—the path does not lead to unfamiliar ground.
It leads to Emberlyn Arryn, a presence once known in softer, quieter ways—glimpsed across tourneys, remembered in passing thoughts that were never given voice. Not love. Not then. But something gentler. Something almost begun, before duty carved another road entirely. Now she returns not as memory, but as possibility.
Somewhere between dragonfire long faded and falcon wings cutting through open air, something begins to shift. What happens when something born to rule the sky.. learns, not to fly alone.
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Art Instagram: coconcussion