Chapter 1: Prolouge

'Let Rhaegar be the king of bones and ashes!' he shrieked. 'Burn them all! Burn them in their homes, burn them in their beds! Burn them all!' Through it all, I stood, silent in my white plate armor, trying to divert myself with happier thoughts. Yet, they always drifted towards the one thing I wanted to avoid... Cersei, my sister and the wife of Rhaegar. I winced. She is not mine, I reminded myself. She is my Queen, that is all. She loves him.

At this juncture, the insistent voice of the Mad King caught my attention. Who was Aerys talking to? I turned. I saw the pyromancer Rossart, his eyes gleaming with pleasure. Realization struck me then. He planned to burn the whole of King's Landing! I cannot let this happen. I will not let this happen. I am Jaime Lannister, knight of the Kingsguard. I will stop this atrocity. I will do it Rhaegar, my liege, but most importantly, I will do it for Cersei, my sister and my love...