Chapter 2.2- The Seadragon's Roar

“Her sails, unique design, and rare components mean she can catch the wing at just the right angle and bearing to move faster than anything her size should even dream of being capable of. But she is only the first of this platform. The Leana Velaryon is a pleasure ship more than anything else, and so is equipped with eight luxury cabins, fifty servant quarters, a massive kitchen, and a wide sailor’s cabin. It is to be a castle on the sea, a display of Velaryon dominance even as we travel over the tides. It is to be your ship, Sister” I said to her, turning to her once I said the last sentence.

“Mine?”

“Yes, yours.”

“You wanted to go to Bloodstone to look for a certain Bronze dragon did you not?” This is the ship that will take us there” I said finally.

“You’re coming along?”

“You think mother and father would let you go alone?” I asked with a chuckle. And it was true. It had taken everything I had to convince them that this was a worthwhile journey. For some reason, Rhaenys had been willing to consent on my word alone, but Corlys himself had needed more convincing. In the end, only the fact that as a Velaryon heir, I was yet to undertake any significant naval voyages of my own and was about to reach my tenth birthday. I might have been a prodigy of never seen before talent, but House Velaryon’s power came from our ships and the men who sailed them. Those men would not respect me if they did not see that I could join them in their element and thrive.

“The two of you will sail from here to Bloodstone, spend a week docked there, and then return— Vhagar or no Vhagar” Corlys clearly wasn’t much hopeful of us catching the Bronze Bitch but I had a feeling. The kind feeling that I knew not toifnre. It was the kind of feeling that ad made me reinforce the ship’s massive aft castle even before the idea had come to use it as a landing platform for Igneel in emergency situations. Well,that was when his dedicated barge could not survive.

“Now, show me the other thing you have been working on, my son” He said.

“Well, this one is less showy, but here we go” I said, waving at the man on the other end of the harbor. He waved back to show he got the message. And my second ship began to make its way from the line.