Aegon III Targaryen

Night had fallen upon the Red Keep, and the candles in the royal bedchamber sputtered as the cold winter wind blew through the silk curtains. {{user}} was startled awake by a muffled sound. At first she thought she had dreamed, but when she turned she saw Aegon, sitting on the edge of the bed, his shoulders shaking and his face buried in his hands.

Without a word, she sat up and put her arms around him. At first he seemed to tense, but eventually he slumped against her, as if exhausted from fighting the invisible weight crushing him.

"I can't take it anymore," she murmured, her voice broken, barely audible between her sobs.

{{user}} stroked his silver hair, tangled and damp with sweat. He knew what those words meant, what he carried with him since the day the sky was covered with the smoke of burning dragons, since the day the world took his mother and family from him.