Ice and Fire: Reign of the Dragon

Damon's funeral was simple.

Ronzel and Aegon collected his ashes and solemnly placed his ashes back in the Targaryen family tomb. In this process, there were no nobles watching, and there were no ceremonies of the year. There were only children bidding farewell to their father, and Colakxiu's condolences.

This was also what he personally requested. The prince's original words were: "I have lived a wonderful life in this life. I was born and died in blood and fire. I have no regrets. You don't need to shed tears for the departure of a warrior."

Joffrey, who restored the Velaryon fleet on Tideshead Island, returned. Five years after the war ended, this impulsive but shy boy grew into a tall and straight man. The rise of the Vareses family caused the Velaryon family to lose most of its shipping routes. After all, the richer Wine Port and Silvercrown City were more attractive to merchant ships from the Eastern Continent than Spice Town and Hull Town. The Seahorse family's wealth continued to shrink, but Joffrey stabilized the situation.

In fact, he didn't do anything. He just signed an agreement with Sebastian Jieyan, so that ships flying the seahorse flag could sail together with the fleet under the silver dragon's laurel leaf giant sail, and through profit sharing, Velaryon's decline has slowed considerably.

Even so, Joffrey was still worried about the Velaryon family. When he learned the news of his stepfather's death, the brown-black-haired boy was stunned for a long time before he rushed out of the Ninth Navigation Hall in a panic, riding Tyrell. Kexiu flew back to King's Landing.

Benila, who was far away in Lys, also rode back to King's Landing on Moon Dancer. This "Queen Mother" who was unwilling to be lonely had always been extremely resistant to a comfortable life. In the past few years, she had spent far less time in King's Landing than she did. Time on the dragon's back. People had seen her among the mountains of the Marchlands, riding a moondancer to trade horsemeat and live sheep with Argo's khalasar. When Rey and Rhaena rode a dragon to find her, Benila Disappeared again. Miners in the West once saw dragons with crowns of thorns flying between the mountains. Since then, bards in the West began to sing songs about the Queen Mother riding a dragon to hunt down man-eating lions for the hunters in the West. Business travelers traveling to and from the Neck once saw the Queen Mother wandering in the miasma-filled swamp, seemingly looking for the moving water fortress of the Swamp people. Duke Cregan Stark and Lady Alexa set out immediately after receiving word from Count Severn that a dragon's raven was spotted over the Wolf Wood, but they missed the mark.

The Queen Mother wanted to see the legendary giant. She stayed in the Last Hearth for half a day and helped Earl Amber melt the ice blocking the road. Benila understood that the north was not easy, so she refused Earl Amber. She received the reception and went north again to Castle Black on the Great Wall, where she met Jason Lannister, who was dressed in black and survived the harsh winter and the invasion of wildlings. The former Duke of Casterly Rock is now Has become the commander-in-chief of the Great Wall. His wife, Lady Johanna, prepared a lot of gold for him, but he exchanged the gold for supplies. It was his supplies that allowed the Great Wall to withstand the most severe cold wave in the 132nd year of the Conquest for seven months. The blizzard almost caused the entire Great Wall to be covered in ice and snow. The rangers were unable to attack at all, and the supply ship of Eastwatch was unable to dock. After the Dance of the Blood Dragon, the Night's Watch force swelled to more than 4,000 people if it were not brought by the lords of the West. Supplies, I'm afraid that by the time the blizzard stops, a large number of people will freeze to death and starve to death.

The arrival of Benila made the people on the Great Wall uneasy. After all, they stood on the opposite side of the young "Queen Mother" in the Dance of the Blood Dragon. But Benila didn't care about this. She rode the dragon for Wall defenders cleared the way, trading trinkets from north of the Wall with aging rangers. Benila wanted to continue going north, but Moon Dancer refused to fly over the Great Wall, so Benila could only ride on Moon Dancer and disappear from people's sight again.

Daemon once sent people to look for her everywhere, but they only brought back vague witness reports. The most recent report was that Benila appeared in Lys. She accepted a large sum of gold provided by Lissandra and used Moon Dance to After burning to death the rebels who tried to overthrow the rule of the Rogar family, she also used the money to fund a mercenary group called "The Immortal Princess", hoping to experience the feeling of being a mercenary leader. Unfortunately, when the news of Damon's death came, Benila immediately gave up her dream of being a mercenary captain and rode a dragon back to King's Landing.

The gathering only lasted for three short days. People dispersed again. Daemon had passed away, but the kingdom still needed to be governed. The Royal Council was still running normally. Lotto Rogar from Lys took over the throne. The position of Chief of Intelligence, which has not been held for a long time, maintains the management of the capital together with Tyran, Bartimus, and the newly appointed Minister of Justice, Lord Forrest Frey. Aegon followed Longzell back to Dragon's Nest City to continue learning how to rule.

Dragon Nest City, Twin Towers.

Rhaena and Rey's room.

Originally, only Rey lived here, so there were piles of books everywhere, but since Renya also moved in, this room has become much neater. All the books are neatly placed on the bookshelf, according to specific labels. They were arranged in categories, but there were many books written in characters that Renya could not understand. She could only classify them according to the entries given by Rey. Until now, she had not figured out what characters those books were written in. of.

"Sister, remember to walk through the door next time."

Renya looked at the floor-to-ceiling windows of the room, with an expression on her face that she didn't know what to say. Benila jumped steadily from Yuewu's back to the balcony of the room, and stepped into her sister's room in one step.

"Don't let that brat Ringol find out." Benila breathed a sigh of relief. In order to avoid Ringol, she deliberately did not go to the dragon's lair, nor did she go to the towers where the children often appeared. Moon Dance landed steadily on the railing of the terrace, hanging like a big bat. It was also unwilling to go to the dragon's lair in Dragon's Nest City. For it, it was equivalent to the territory of another giant dragon and was quite dangerous.

"Why are you hiding from him?" Renia closed the book in her hand very strangely: "Doesn't Uncle Longzel support you very much?"

"Uncle Longzel supports me, alas," Benila pouted. "But that brat Ringol always thinks that I am irresponsible for running around. So every time I come to Dragon's Nest and he sees me, he will go to find my uncle, and then it will waste our precious time. By the way, Rhaena, let's get down to business. Have you found the things I asked you to find?"

Rhaena looked at her sister with some vigilance, although she silently took out several large books that Benila asked her to copy from the Great Library of the Laurel Tower. "I warn you, these books are recorded in Rey, and they will definitely know that you borrowed them."

"It's okay, it's okay. I left a letter for my uncle Longzel, and he knows about it." Benila happily flipped through these books, "Geography of the Eastern Coast of the Narrow Sea", "Disputed Land: Hassan Lo Tator's Travels", "Summer Sea Voyage Diary", "Sothoryos Exploration", "Basilisk Islands: Land of Blood", and "Kings: History of the Skeleton Mountains". "Huh? Why is it not there?" Benila hesitated, there was another book in the list of books she provided to Rhaena.    "Journey to the Dead" written by Longzier.

The bards said that Longzier had been to the lost ancient Valyria, where he gained the power and dragons of his ancestors, and wrote this travelogue after returning to guide his descendants to continue exploring the relics of their ancestors.

"There is no such book." Rhaena shook her head. "That was made up by the bard. Think about it, with my cousin's personality, would he leave such a sensitive thing?"

"He wouldn't." In fact, Bernila didn't have much confidence in getting the book. After thinking it through, Bernila quickly put the book into the bag on her waist.

"Thank you, I have to go quickly."

"Sister, although I am not quite suitable to say this." Rhaena looked at her sister who turned over and jumped into the terrace and got on the dragon's back again. After thinking for a while, she said firmly: "I understand your dream of exploring for the Targaryen family, but you still have Moon Dancer. What if Moon Dancer?"

"Don't worry, I won't let the Targaryen dragons wander in a foreign land." Benella smiled and responded: "I have given Moon Dancer instructions. If I sleep in a very far place, it will return to its hometown Dragonstone Island anyway."

She waved her hand.

"Good sister, I wish me to sleep at the end of the world. Tell Uncle Longzel that I will write a travel journal and let him remember to receive it."

At this time, in the circular roofed courtyard on the top of the Silver Blood Tower, Longzel looked at the flying Moon Dancer and sighed.

"Dear, what's wrong? Is it Queen Mother Benella?" Diana sat next to Serena, playing with building blocks with her daughter. She couldn't help but raise her head when she heard her husband's sigh.

"Yes." Longzel sighed, "Benilla, I wish your long-cherished wish will finally come true."

Above the distant sky.

Moon Dance broke through the clouds, and Benilla grabbed the handguard of the dragon saddle and laughed wantonly, but as she laughed, Benilla's eyes suddenly flashed with tears.

"Xiao Jie, I have also walked through the rivers and mountains of Westeros. Next, I will fly to the end of the world." She raised her head and listened quietly to the wind. "Let's see the outside world together."

The wind whistled past.

Only the cry of Moon Dance and the laughter of the young queen mother were left.

From that day on, no one saw Benilla Targaryen again.

The first update is checked in, and there will be another update later. I am busy these days, so the time for the third update will be postponed to 10.4/5/6 for three days.