Steffon POV
269 AC
The smell of the sea and shit hit his nose as he came out of the cabin. Any other man would have detested it but not him. The outline of the city became visible as well as my ship continued cutting through the waters. It had been around seven years since he last visited Kingslanding. It had been a long time since Aerys's coronation. A lot had changed over the course of the years. He had two sons. Children for whom he would gladly give up his life.
Just like father did.
Shutting out the dark thoughts, I started remembering the memories created with Aerys and Tywin. Those were the times. Going hunting in the Kingswood, sneaking in dornish red into their rooms, visiting the street of silk with tywin in order to find aerys which later led to being scolded by grandfather. Just thinking about those times brought a smile to my face.
But now all three of them had responsibilities. With me ruling The Storlands, Aerys being the King of the Seven Kingdoms, and most of all Tywin being the Hand of the King while being the Warden of the West. Tywin always was the best among the three of them. Another thing common among the three of us was that all three of us had become fathers each with two children of our own.
The rumors had reached the Stormlands about how intelligent his nephew was "Jaehaerys reborn" they said but then there were the darker rumors about how he could be the rogue prince reborn or the fact that he could try and usurp the throne as the false dragon did. Just thinking about the fucking blackfyres made his blood boil with rage.
But most of the rumors were utter crap. No matter what how could a child of just five namedays do these things? The fact that he was being raised by rhaella made all his worries disappear.
Just like Tywin even rhaella was mindful of her duty and would raise the young princes accordingly. After all the most dutiful after tywin was rhaella, and I knew with certainty how they would never break oaths or do something untoward.
"Father, father have we reached yet?".
Turning back I look at my firstborn with his bright blue eyes and hair as dark as night, my little faun. "Aye, my son we have reached". After which I pick him up and put him on my shoulders. While he stares at the sailors working on the ship.
"You have become pretty big son, I am not sure If I can still carry you". Instead of being disappointed his son started laughing and said about how big he would become. He truly was a boisterous lad, unlike his younger brother who would be rather quiet and not even laugh at my japes which made me wonder if they truly were as funny as I and Robert found them.
I gently placed Robert down and went inside to get Stannis and Cassana, the woman who was the love of his life. The day he married her in front of the seven was the best day of his life.
As his ship "The Windproud" came into the port he saw the city watch waiting for him who would take us to the Red Keep.
As I got off the ship I saw the white cloaks of the Kingsguard along with two silver-haired kids. It seems that my nephews had come to see me. As I got closer I saw that the older prince seemed nervous and constantly looked at the younger prince for guidance while the younger one looked at him with admiration.
He could see that Robert was curious to know who they were while Stannis stood next to his mother tightly holding her hand.
"My prince's", I said and bowed along with my wife while Robert and Stannis simply followed suit.
With some hesitation, the crown prince greeted us while his brother kept staring at me.
Then suddenly the younger prince came and hugged me saying, "Nice to meet you uncle, mother, and father tell me all about you and what a mighty warrior you are". Hearing him I start laughing and gently hugged him back. It is nice to see you nephew. It was then that I looked at him and noticed that instead of the purple or lilac eyes which the Targaryen have he had an emerald one instead.
He then went towards Cassana and gently kissed he hand saying how she was the fairest maiden in all of the Stormlands.
Oh yes, he was just like Aerys in that regard. As he moved towards Robert both of them just looked at each other for a few moments and then immediately hugged each other. "Brother," they said in unison. It seems that robert too was happy to get to know his cousin who was more outgoing than stannis. Then he went towards stannis and nodded his head to which stannis did the same.
After the pleasantries were over the crown prince and I started riding towards the redkeep while cassana and the children came in the carriage.
As I reached the redkeep it felt as if I had come back to my second home. I could not wait to meet Aerys, Rhaella, and Tywin.
Then as the carriage came into the courtyard I could see that my poor wife was holding her nose tightly while stannis looked like he was going to puke, It seems as If the city's air did not suit them. Then when I looked at robert he did not seem to mind the smell since he was busy in his talks with prince daemon. Robert was busy asking about which weapon that daemon was going to train with and when daemon said the war hammer, It seemed as If robert was going to cry right there and then. Hearing that robert quickly hugged the prince and started telling him about how they were going to be the greatest warriors in the world while the prince started smiling too.
Then he saw The Lord Commander of the Kingsguard come towards him and informed him that the king was waiting for him in Maegor's holdfast. He simply nodded and looked towards his sons and said ,"Boys you better behave , especially you robert." Hearing him robert started pouting about how he always told him to behave and not stannis. While stannis started smirking which made robert more irritated.
But the prince cheered him up by saying that they should go and see the Iron throne, which piqued the interest of stannis too who was looking aloof.
By the seven it was good to be back in Kingslanding.