Fanfiction: The Witch and the Lamb

A person grapples with questions regarding Rhaena and Viserys, children of Aenys, and how the violence they suffered under Maegor is perceived. https://archiveofourown.org/works/72612831

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Tell me a story of Rhaena and Viserys, two children of Aenys. Tell me of their mysteries that lurk within the shadows. Tell me of their ghosts that haunt the stone walls. They say one is a witch, trailing the riverside, white and haggard with loss gleaming beneath eyes. The other, a lamb, butchered by uncle, abandoned by mother.

But why, you must ask me, why these two? One smoldered with rage. She killed her husband, they whisper. She killed her daughter. And the other was a whisper that flickered and blew out. A sad boy, a sad story. They both suffered under a king, yet one is called a witch and the other, a lamb.

Tell me, what makes one over the other? Is it that one died and the other did not? Oh, how cruel that sounds. Must only children retain innocence? Or is it that the body that bleeds in the bed hurts less than the body that bleeds in the dungeon? Perhaps, one is seen as more natural than the other.

And still, you must hear me. I can’t help but wonder about those two, witch and lamb, queen and prince, wed and unwed, daughter and son, sister and brother, Rhaena and Viserys.

So, tell me, Rhaena. Tell me, Viserys. Tell me your stories.