Chapter IV
The Last Targaryen
306 AC
Many stories come to us today about the time Daenerys Targaryen met for the first time her nephew, Jon Snow, a man who the annals of history will also remember as Jaehaerys Targaryen, even though the young bastard never assumed his father's name. The evil tongues of the time say the Wolfrider was sitting on Daenerys' throne when the queen reached Bhorash. But this was only a lie propagated by the Free Cities, since the castle where Daenerys Targaryen had built her court had fallen into ruins.
It is Loras Tyrell, in his records From Flower to Fowler: The Grace and Disgrace of a Knight, who shares some light over that meeting. And it was a tense encounter, no doubt about that. The queen met Jon Snow in an Unsullied barrack, while Drogon threw himself into the skies in a friendly dance with his brother Rhaegal. In a matter of an hour, Daenerys Targaryen wept over the death of his dragon and her city and welcomed his bastard nephew, believing right away in the strange fable he shared.
Personally, I'm almost sure Daenerys Targaryen was haunted by the visions she had seen in Asshai, as well as the High Priestess' words. She recognized Jon Snow's face, and the words of the priestess had proven true so far. So maybe she was really destined to travel to Westeros and rule the Seven Kingdoms with an iron fist… and fire.
Records show that Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen spent the first night together, talking about the world that separated them and the one that brought them together. Their dragons continued to dance in the sky, while fire and ice gathered privately in a tent. Some even say that Aunt and Nephew shared a bed that night, keeping the Targaryen tradition.
The following morning, Daenerys Targaryen gathered together the few survivors of her private counsel and appointed Thirty-One Ambassadors, who would be accompanied by an entourage of Unsullied each. Every each one of them would leave the debris of Bhorash to spread, from town to town, the need to free any slave put in chains. Even though this was a risky measure, it would spark rebellions all over Essos in the following twenty years.
Nowadays, slavery is almost abolished in Essos, thanks to the hope Daenerys Targaryen planted in people's hearts through fire and blood. The Mother of Dragons never returned to Essos after sailing to Westeros, but we can say that among all her feats, she finally managed to see her people freed.
The decision of leaving Essos once and for all was motivated also by another agreement Daenerys had made that night with her nephew: before taking her Throne, she would first defend the Wall and the threat of the cold that marched from the North. She was ready and, having now the obsidian sword with her, she felt it was time.
Even so, the Queen of Dragons bargained a price for her support.
Not that Jon consented in paying such a price. Daenerys would only fly to Westeros if House Stark were to recognize her as Queen, helping her conquering the Iron Throne in the future. Jon Snow did not give in to such pressure, reaffirming his position of speaking on behalf of the Night's Watch only. Besides, he found it unlikely that Robb would bend his knee to Daenerys since Sansa was Queen and her son would one day be king. Of course, he didn't know by the time what had happened in King's Landing.
"Remember, nephew, even though you are a bastard… You are a Targaryen." She said to him, trying to dissuade him to her cause. The words she used, however, were careful. In those early days, she wanted to reaffirm his bastardy, to make sure he wouldn't move against her own claim.
"I have renounced lands and titles the day I joined the Night's Watch, Your Grace."
Humility would have convinced Daenerys Targaryen, though in the back of her mind she had already decided to fly from Bhorash.
"We will talk again about this later, then." She promised.
It is important here to comment on Jon Snow's character. Never the bastard of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark advanced against his aunt with the purpose of seizing a crown or the Iron Throne. Although the Night's Watch was finished before Jon Snow flew to Westeros, the Wolfrider never broke his vows and always tried to defend his kingdom.
Back to that day, though, the two last Targaryens left the debris of Bhorash, mounted on dragons and advancing to destroy the hoard of the dead gathering in the North. The army of Unsullied that wouldn't accompany the Ambassadors would travel by sea to the Seven Kingdoms, boarding the fleet Victarion Greyjoy had brought to them. Loras Tyrell, sworn to the Queen and taking a position as lord commander of the Queensguard, would lead her army back to Westeros.
Jon and Daenerys flew directly to the Wall, only to find it destroyed and invaded. Tracing the dead marching through the North, the last Targaryen reached then Winterfell in time to finish the Small Night before the Starks subsided.
It was time to rid the North of the dead.