"How many people can truly look themselves in the mirror and say they find themselves beautiful? I'm not talking about appearances, and you know that well." Aenar Targaryen, God Emperor of Humanity.
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"Let's talk quickly, your three mothers are waiting for in the bedroom." Aenar said with a smiling tone, seeing his eldest daughter growing stronger and stronger. Alysanne understood all his expectations regarding her abilities.
"Father, I don't want to hear about my parents' sex life." Alysanne said, rolling her eyes and with a slightly irritated tone. Any son or daughter would be embarrassed to hear about their parents' sex life, and she was no different.
"Sex is natural." Aenar comnted with an amused laugh. "But, I can see you're not very interested in that aspect."
He wasn't embarrassed to say sothing like that. For him, who had seen billions of tilines, there was no taboo or distorted sense of morality he hadn't witnessed. He always believed in the creativity of human hedonism.
"Love or those kinds of things aren't that interesting, I like power more than anything else." If Visenya were before her, Alysanne wouldn't dare express herself so freely and casually, but with Aenar before her, she expressed everything without any lies.
"I always thought you loved Aegon, but it seems it's nothing more than fraternal love." Aenar said, still smiling, not caring about Alysanne's possible lack of heirs in the future. He had other sons and daughters to continue his golden lineage. Alysanne truly didn't need to marry or have lovers, if she so wished.
Alysanne frowned, hearing that her father thought she loved Aegon, but rembering how she treated Aegon differently from Aemon and Jaehaerys, she understood the reason for her father's assumption.
However, Aenar's next words truly surprised her. "But, he loves you, and in a very luxurious way." Aenar said, finding it incredibly amusing to see the shocked expression on Alysanne's face.
His old habit of provoking all worlds began to return.
"Poor Aegon, deluded by his older sister's special affection, what a cruel fate." He said with a tone full of regret, making Alysanne show a stunned expression. It was the first ti she had seen her always majestic, powerful, and divine father show so many human emotions.
"Father…" As Alysanne was about to speak, she saw her father's expression change, showing solemnity.
"You have two choices to deal with Aegon, but these two choices will make him fall into the arms of the Ruinous Powers of Chaos." Aenar said with a calm tone, Aegon's situation not only cald down but beca even more intense. The number of tilines in which his son appeared reached a frightening number.
"Is there no third option?" Alysanne asked with a calm tone, but Aenar could see the pain in his daughter's eyes. She loved her brothers and sisters and would do anything to protect them, but there were things that even soone like the Omniscient and Omnipotent God could not predict, much less them, re ascending deities.
"If you refuse to accept his feelings, he will feel betrayed, hurt, and wounded. After all, without being able to marry you, he won't be able to be Emperor." Aenar said the first option with a calm tone. Aegon loved Alysanne, but this love was based on Alysanne's identity and nothing more.
Alysanne's face darkened. Love? This wasn't love, Aegon felt no love for her, he only had the throne in his eyes when marrying her. What would happen if Aegon said she was no longer useful after marrying him?
Alysanne had no doubt that Aegon would kill her so that no one would threaten his throne.
"The other option is to ignore him, but he will again feel betrayed and fall to the Ruinous Powers of Chaos." Aenar said, his gaze showing great disappointnt. Aegon's mind was as fragile as a spoiled child with boring and irritating politics.
"You think you can give him enough love, but it's his nature to want more and more, he is greedy, spoiled, arrogant, and blind to his true fortune." Aenar spoke with a tone full of regret.
He didn't spoil Aegon, but the boy still had a fragile mind and was afraid, afraid of losing everything he was entitled to. Or at least he thought he was entitled to.
"That's why you are my heir, my beautiful princess." Aenar ca to Alysanne and lifted the girl's face, seeing her pained and betrayed look, he showed a look of pity. What father wanted his daughter to suffer such pain? But, he knew that Alysanne would only beco more mature after these events.
Pain has always been the best teacher for all beings in the universe, even the Gods of Chaos were not exempt from this rule.
"Don't feel sad about what will happen to him, Aly." Hugging his daughter, Aenar said with a gentle tone. "Just think that he will be free from his worries at the end of his life. He will feel regret and apologize to everyone."
"Are you really going to sacrifice him?" In Aenar's arms, Alysanne felt the safest girl in the world, she looked up and asked in a low, sad tone. She really didn't want to see her brother die for being too greedy.
"I will love him until his last mont, Aly. Just as you will also love him at the end of his life." Aenar said with a calm tone while caressing his daughter's hair. "This is our way of honoring him, even if one day he ends up making the wrong choices."
"Can't we just freeze him for all eternity?" Getting out of her father's arms, Alysanne fell weakly onto the sofa and asked in an even sadder tone. She stared at the ceiling with a lost look, with a vague hope in her eyes.
"You are cruel, my daughter." Aenar said, sitting beside her. "You are asking to freeze my son while he remains conscious in that state. Eternally confined in a piece of ice, but still alive."
"Better than dying." Alysanne said with a stubborn tone.
Aenar knew that Alysanne didn't want Aegon to die, he himself didn't either, but sotis, people have to make difficult choices. In his case, he will use his son's life to kill a God of Chaos.
This was the destiny he created for Aegon after his betrayal, it was an honorable destiny that would make him be rembered as a hero by all until the end of ti.
It was a difficult choice, but Aenar had to make it, it hurt him more than anything, but he had to do it. Being Aegon's father only made his decision even heavier. He had to do it.
"Forgive for being a terrible father, Aly." Aenar said with a calm tone, but there was a deep bitterness behind his inexpressive face.
He tried in every way to make Aegon beco a real man, instilling ideas and hopes in him. However, the more he did this, the more Aegon himself walked towards destruction.
Then, Aenar understood. Aegon's small and vague hope was in his own absence. Only then could a small amount of hope blossom with a faint and weak fire in his son's soul.
"You are not a terrible father." Alysanne said with a tone full of conviction and determination. "You are not to bla for other people's mistakes. You raised, educated, and protected all of us, you did your part and the mistakes we made are only ours, your inept sons and daughters."
Aenar looked at Alysanne with a surprised expression, but soon smiled, it seed that a weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
"I am generally cold and indifferent, but when it cos to my family, I beco too emotional. Perhaps this is my paternal side trying to fix things I never had in life." He murmured, laughing at himself.
"I am also emotional when it cos to family, I always want to do my best for them." Alysanne leaned on her father's shoulder and spoke in a soft tone. She closed her eyes and appreciated the comforting presence beside her.
"Hey, we're two emotional little birds." Aenar said with an amused tone, making Alysanne laugh.
"I am a dragon, not a little bird." Alysanne opened her eyes and said proudly.
"A dragon hatchling." Aenar added, letting out a laugh.
"I am an adult." Alysanne said with a certain irritation.
"You will always be daddy's baby." Aenar added again, but this ti, there was a teasing tone in his voice.
"That's so embarrassing!" Alysanne exclaid, feeling sha run through her body.
"Well, a father and mother's duty is to embarrass their children on certain occasions, especially in front of their friends." Aenar said, finding the situation extrely warm and familiar.
Unconsciously, Aenar felt that his soul was solidly and immutably stopped in the sea of ti and space. The ti that ran through his soul, making him more and more indifferent, seed nothing compared to this warm and gentle emotion.
'Gabriel was right, my family is my anchor and as long as they exist, I will not beco a machine without emotions.' Aenar thought with a smiling tone.
"Family…"
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