sunken sapphires

when the court whispered of rhaella velaryon, it was not of her treacherous mother or dubious legitimacy, nor the venomously palpable threat her very existence posed - but rather of a more curious, even strange, thing; the ring that forever-encrusted her fourth finger.

you see, this ring was not her wedding ring, rather a pearled, cobalt invention - the unlikely experiment of some mad jeweller - that although not a special creation, bore a conspicuously large central stone. a sapphire, smoother than a ray of sunlight, the colour of twilight and - despite rhaella's best attempts to disguise it - the very size of an EYE...

aemond targaryen x fem oc
hotd s1- au
part of the WILD AT HEART series