Chapter 19.3- The Seadragon's Roar
Added 2025-08-14 05:37:08 +0000 UTC“If we want that castle, we have to get men inside that bitch” Daemon said, and I feared that he was right. Because that was going to be a costly castle to take no matter what.
“Let’s deal with the other castles first” Rhaenys said instead. She was just as hesitant as I was about challenging that castle, it seemed. Good. Because our dragons would not be useless. We’d be able to use them to prevent people from guarding the walls and stalling the breaching of the castle itself, but once they were inside, that was going to be a whole other story. The Stormlanders would bleed for every inch of space they took. The good part about it was that I was sure the crazy and battle hungry bastards would at least find some enjoyment in the slaughter. They’d probably prefer it that way. I could see in Borros’ eyes the hesitance he had had around Mother’s plan when she had introduced it.
Someone else would have interpreted it as him not being confident it would work, but I saw it instead as him being scared that it would.If we burned all the castles and sent him to fight pirates in holes in the ground, then whence will his glory come from. Borros Baratheon was a man who longed for the glory of combat. He wanted to be the tip of the spear of every cavalry charge. To be the first man over the walls at every castle’s storming. To be the first man on the line in every infantry group he joined. The hunger for glory was in-built.
At least this way he’d get to see that glory and earn it for himself. How many men could say that they’d taken a Valyrian castle— after failing to burn it with dragons, I was now just spit certain that the Valyrians had built it. It was something that was right up their alley. Building a massive castle in a barren place with little else. And it made sense. If Tyrosh had been built as a military outpost then the castle on Bloodstone could serve as some sort of early deterrent or warning system. Have a castle here to warn if any attacks were coming Tyrosh’s way. With dragons, the journey could be made in less than a day— both to and fro.
