Chapter 44 Crying

The return of the fleet from the expedition naturally caused a sensation on Dragonstone Island.

In fact, on the way back to the fleet, the news of this great victory had already spread with the wings of the raven.

First, there was a lot of commotion in King's Landing. When there are too many people, it is easy to cause problems. King's Landing is densely populated and complex, and naturally it spreads very quickly.

And the golden robes haven't had a few days of leisure, and once again they are chasing people everywhere.

Then the news began to spread from King's Landing, brought over by the merchant ships that docked at Dragonstone Island between the two continents for rest, even one step faster than the Targaryen fleet.

The Targaryen fleet destroyed all Baratheon ships in the Battle of Shipbreaker Bay, but rumors spread through word of mouth and turned into several other unreliable versions.

The first is that the Targaryens awakened the slumbering Valyrian dragonlords on Dragonstone, or that they unearthed treasures left by their ancestors.

As for the last one, it is even more magical. It is rumored that the little prince Viserys awakened the bone dragon at the Dragonstone blood sacrifice, and then personally drove the dragon to repeat the war of Aegon's conquest of Westeros, which burned Storm's End.

However, there are all kinds of rumors, and the most credible one is that Viserys really stood in front of everyone.

The fleet entered the port and after some twists and turns finally docked and fixed the ship.

Viserys stood on the bow and there were many soldiers waiting to disembark. His long silver and golden hair fluttered, and the boy still looked heroic in his leather armor.

A pair of lavender eyes looked into the distance, then lowered their heads and looked at the crowd below.

As the center of the storm, Dragonstone Island was naturally hit very hard. Now that Viserys is within sight, Dragonstone Island seems to have made a big change from what he remembered.

Trees were torn, the land tumbled and muddy, and the bare islands now seemed even more rugged, as if they had been ruthlessly ravaged.

The volcano in the distance is still bubbling white smoke, and many rocks seem to have landslides and rolled down, and the small fishing village not far from the port has been severely hit by the rockslide.

Many of the rocks that rushed down still remain in the village, destroying the houses and the pitiful little arable fields.

In the small fishing village, Viserys also saw that many homes were hung with white cloths. It seems that some family members died in an accident in this storm.

This small fishing village is the only source of population on Dragonstone.

Their lives also depend on the port of Dragonstone Island to go fishing, and now the former port has been fragmented, and there are still some wooden boards floating on the sea.

Viserys withdrew his gaze and looked down, and he could see that there were still soldiers working on repairs, shouting loudly in cooperation with pulling the ropes above and trying to make the warship dock on the shore.

And the following greets the crowd.

Ser Shad, the acting butler and city lord of Dragonstone Island, had a slightly ugly expression on his face for some reason.

And by his side is the former Red Keep instructor, Sir William Darry, who sacrificed his life to protect Layla and her son.

The two of them stood at the front, and the instructor was holding the little girl Renis by his hand, and behind them were servants and soldiers.

Viserys stood on the boat and glanced down, followed behind Sir Geoffrey, surrounded by a group of soldiers, and walked off the Black Death.

Tread

Step on the wooden gangway, step by step.

Viserys got off the battleship, and everyone who greeted him at the port below saw the silver-haired boy get off the battleship, and then fell to his knees without saying a word and hula.

"Um?"

Holding the temporary broken wooden gangway, Viserys, who was walking down, was slightly taken aback when he saw this scene. He didn't know what happened and why everyone was doing this.

However, just as he was about to ask questions, he was interrupted by Renis, who broke free from the instructor's hand and ran over.

The little brown-haired girl hugged Viserys tightly, tears welling up in her eyes, while Viserys hugged Renice and felt her shoulders wet with the girl's tears, and she had a bad feeling in her heart.

"Renice"

As the sun went down, the boy squatted on the ground and hugged Renise, slightly pursing his chapped lips.

Then he opened his mouth again, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

But in the end, he chose not to ask for the exit.

When the fleet arrived at Dragonstone Island, it was already evening, and the loot was being loaded and unloaded. In addition, the port was severely damaged by the storm. Now that the warship can be disembarked after fixing the warship, the sky is completely dark after all this time. down.

A group of people walked on the rugged and circling mountain road, and torches illuminated the road ahead.

Tread

Heavily armed guards on both sides protected their 'little king', torches held high in their hands, and the flaming flames danced in the wind, lengthening the shadows.

And everyone in the group was silent, it seemed that the joy of victory did not dispel the haze, and they all kept their mouths tightly shut and said nothing.

And because the temperature on the island dropped a little at night, Viserys wore a black cloak.

The boy's long silver-gold hair hung down on the soft cloak, swaying slightly in the wind, and his right hand was tightly holding Renise's small hand.

"Sir William."

And at this time.

Viserys was silent for a long time. From the time he got off the boat to the moment when he opened his lips for the first time, he seemed to have a premonition of something, but he didn't ask.

Now that he has come, he can't help it anymore, and turned his head to look at the instructor walking beside him.

"mother her"

Queen Layla had not come to the port, and Viserys had already guessed something.

After all, this is a doomed destiny.

He once tried hard to change, wanted to cure his mother's heart disease, untie her knot, and even wanted to make her laugh and make her happy.

However, the world is unpredictable, and many things did not appear in Viserys' memory, but appeared in this reality.

Queen Layla was stimulated and attacked one after another, including the death of the old bachelor, the assassination at the back and so on.

The instructor's face was a little gloomy. He heard Viserys' words, then shook his head silently, and didn't say anything, but Viserys already understood everything.

His heart thumped as if it had been hit hard, and fell to the bottom in an instant.

He already knew it, he had already guessed it.

But when things really came to him, he still suffered a serious impact on his emotions.

Viserys stepped onto the next stone steps, and then stopped abruptly halfway up the mountain.

One of his hands was pulling Renice, but his palm trembled slightly unconsciously. His thin body seemed to be infected with the cold and wanted to cough violently. He bent down and covered his mouth with the other hand.

"cough--"

The shadow of the torch covered him, and he tried hard to control his tears not to fall.

He didn't want Renice and the people around him to see him cry.

But in the end it didn't help.