@wintearys ⊱ ❝ I am to wed someone else. ❞ Eleana
▐║ ♔ ┊ 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓, 𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐓, his face as solid as the stone floor beneath them. It doesn't feel real when he hears the words leave her mouth. Everything within him rejects this. It cannot be. It is something that has loomed over them both for the longest time, knowing that Lord Connington would marry her off if Aegon could not behave himself, yet he realizes now he never truly believed that the man would go through with it. That he would wound him like this and take her from him.
❝ No, ❞ is all he says to first break the silence, quiet, yet definitive in that single word. ❝ No, ❞ Aegon repeats, ❝ Absolutely not. I forbid it. ❞ He says it with all of the confidence of a king, but the resolve in his eyes quickly falters. It should be up to him, if he is truly a king. These decisions should be his to make, but Connington has always overruled him. How can that be, that his Hand can rip the power right from his hands? He'd never felt so choked by this restraint before, always viewing the man as his mentor; no, his father, in the absence of the one from which he was born. Yet now this leash of guidance seems to strangle him.
The anger within him wells, simmering, boiling, pouring scalding blood through his heart, and Aegon turns away from Eleana, placing his hands flat upon his desk to try and quell it. To no avail. His hands clench into fists so tightly that his knuckles turn bone white, and when it all becomes too much, he knocks the stacks of parchment from the desk. ❝ I am the King! ❞ Aegon half-shouts through his clenched teeth. ❝ This is not for Connington to decide, nor your father! It is my decision, and they cannot take you away from me! ❞ He kicks the wooden chair out of his way in frustration, carrying himself to the opened window in search of the North's crisp air. But even that cannot cool him. His breaths heave within his chest, the world around him spinning, and Aegon braces himself against the windowsill, all his anger mingling with grief. He swallows deeply, finally looking back at Eleana over his shoulder with wet eyes, brimmed with the sting of betrayal. His mouth parts, offering a single utterance, ❝ Who is it? ❞








