Rhaella opened her eyes expecting to see the walls of Winterfell but no this time she was in a different place, it's colder and darker here, so she decided to look around for a bit and she sees a bunch of men dressed in black.
She looked around for a bit and ended up at the top of a set of stairs, seeing one man alone at the top she stops when the man speaks "who's there?"
Ella freezes for a moment "you can see me?"
"No, but I can hear you and feel your presence... who are you? Women aren't supposed to be here at the wall... It's not safe"
Ella bites her lip for a moment "My name is Rhaella" the man Aemon feels a twinge of sadness at the mention of the girl's name reminding him of his old family. Ella continues "Daughter of Mikael" there is another twinge of sadness and pain in the old man once being reminded of his old family.
Ella noticed the look on his face at the mention of her name and her father's name "is something wrong, mister?"
He shakes his head "no it's just I haven't heard those names in so long... the names of my niece and nephew"
Ella looked at him for a moment forming a question on her head to ask the man "you're a Targaryen?"
"I was before I took the black Aemon Targaryen now I'm known simply as Maester Aemon."
The teenager smiled finally having met someone from her dad's side of the family "my father Mikael named me after his sister Rhaella as a way to honor her memory."
Aemon looked towards the girl, he can't see her but he can feel that's where she's standing "you're a Targaryen as well? How are you here, it's said your father died at the Trident in Robert's Rebellion."
"I am and well I don't know if you were aware but my father was given a prophecy before the rebellion started and when he was stabbed at the Trident protecting Rhaegar, he was told it was time to fulfill the prophecy so he was saved and sent to a new world where he could produce the heir that would fulfill the prophecy and I'm not really here, this is just a dream for me which is why I was surprised that you could see me or well feel my presence here"
Aemon smiled at the girl he'd just learned was family to him, blood family, Ella smiles as well "when father told me what happened during Robert's Rebellion... he said they were all killed all the Targaryens were gone so I never thought I'd get to meet someone from my father's family but here we are"
So the two sat and talked for a while with Ella telling Aemon all about her family, her brothers, and sister, and just everything about her life, she even told him of the prophecy given to her father and he in return told her stories about her family that she hadn't heard before and stories about the Night's Watch and Castle Black.
As it was nearing time for Rhaella to leave Aemon smiled at the girl "the Gods have given me peace in knowing that the Targaryen name lives on in you young Rhaella I know you will make a great Queen someday"
The teen smiled at him "thank you that is very kind of you say" and with the teens permission of course Aemon touched her face to get a feel of what Ella looked like as he couldn't see her face due to his blindness.
Before another word can be spoken Ella disappears leaving a smiling and happy Aemon behind.
This time when Ella noticed that she was once again in an unfamiliar place, this place was warmer and there was a lot more sand, she seemed to be in a market of some kind and she noticed two children a girl who looked to be just a year or two younger than her and a boy who couldn't have been older than 15.
The girl stood behind the boy "Viserys, what are you doing with mothers crown?"
The boy Ella now knew was named Viserys looked at the younger girl with a glare set on his face "do you want to starve Daenerys? If not then I suggest you shut up and let me sell the only thing of value that we own... do you think I want to sell the last thing of our mother that we have left? No, I don't but we will starve if I don't."
The young girl Daenerys nods at her brother "sorry Viserys" and drops her head down.
Ella sees the look in Viserys eyes and she can tell that he really doesn't want to do this but it's their last resort to survive.
She looks at the crown in his hands and she locks away the image in her head meaning to draw it when she wakes up.
She decided to follow the Viserys and Daenerys around wherever they were, she still had yet to figure out the location she knew it wasn't Westeros because the entire feel of this place was different than when she was in Westeros, maybe a bordering country to Westeros?
The 13-year-old thought as she kept an eye on the siblings.
Things were silent between the siblings as they kept walking with an unknown shadow behind them that neither of them could see.
It all happened so quickly one minute they were walking back to where they had been staying then the older boy looked to his sister "Run Daenerys, don't stop or look back I will meet you back at the house... it's harder to be caught if we split up"
So the siblings both ran off in different directions and Ella decided to follow Daenerys and she kept right behind the younger girl, wondering what happened and why they were running but nonetheless, she stayed right with her.
A little while later they came to a stop in front of a small house where Daenerys ducked inside without being seen and so Ella followed her.
The younger girl was breathing heavily as she dropped down on the floor tears falling down her face, tears that she'd never let her brother see her shed, tears for having to sell the last item they had that belonged to their mother, tears for always having to run just because of their namesake.
At that moment Ella wished she could comfort the girl but she knew it wasn't possible so she sighed sadly as the younger girl wiped the tears away just in time for Viserys to walk into the house "we can't stay here any longer, they know we're here so we have to move, grab your things we leave at dawn"
Ella woke up and got out of bed careful not to wake her sleeping siblings, she grabbed Dark Sister, a torch, and some things that she could use to draw with and headed out to draw the picture of the crown she saw in her dream.
Once she had all of the things she'd need she sat down on a hill overlooking her village and she began to draw, and before she knew it the sun was rising in the sky.
But she paid it no mind as she continued her drawing trying to make it perfect.
Once she was finished she had drawn an almost perfect replica of her Aunt Rhaella's crown even though she doesn't know that yet.
She put her torch out and gathered everything up and headed back to the village.
She gets stopped by her father "and just where have you been little dragon?"
She smiled at him "drawing" she shows him the drawing "I had to draw it while it was still fresh in my mind"
Mikael took the paper from her examining it "Where did you see this? Do you know what this is little dragon?"
Ella looked at him as her father crouched down to her level "It's a crown father and I had a dream last night and this boy and girl had the crown and the boy had to sell it so they could afford to eat, though he didn't want to sell it. It was beautiful and I knew I had to draw it."
Mikael smiled at her "that's not just any crown little dragon, that is a special crown it was Queen Rhaella's crown, it belonged to your aunt"
Ella looked at him wide-eyed "really?"
He nods at her "yes little dragon that's was really your aunts crown"
The young girl nodded at her father a determined look on her face "well then father when I am there for real, I will find it and I will wear it proudly when I am Queen."
Mikael just smiled at his daughter handing her drawing back to her and kissing her on the head before standing to go about his business as the teenager walked into their hut, to put her drawing of her aunt's crown with her dragon egg so that she will see the picture every time she looks at her egg.
Ella went about her day as she normally would starting with helping her mother prepare for breakfast, getting her siblings up, and helping them get ready for the day before getting dressed and ready for the day herself.
Then after breakfast, she helped her younger siblings with their studies as requested by her mother and after that, she left Kol and Rebekah with their mother as she took Nik, Eli, and Finn outside, with Nik watching as the three eldest siblings trained with their father.
Then after the boy's lessons were over and the three of them ran off to play, Ella stayed behind with Mikael so that they could get into her personal training where she got to use Dark Sister instead of the wooden swords they use with her brothers.
Along with her training with a sword, her father has also taken to teaching her archery as well just as a backup in case she were in a situation where she couldn't use Dark Sister or a sword of any kind.
Though Ella much prefers her sword she is pretty good with the bow as well.
After her training concluded she went off to find her siblings to get them ready for supper which she again helped her mother prepare.
Then she put her three oldest younger siblings to bed as her mother put the two youngest to bed.
Once they were all in bed and asleep Ella smiled at before walking over to her egg running her fingers over the cold shell, whispering to her dragon that was inside, that she knew one day would hatch.
Then she made her own way to bed, falling asleep, thinking about what her dragon could look like.
Ella smiled opening her eyes this time feeling the familiar cool air of Winterfell.
The 13-year-old set off to find the only person in Winterfell that can see and interact with her Robb Stark.
The teen pouts when she doesn't find him on her first sweep of the place.
Then she thinks talking to herself "I wonder if... I could..." she closes her eyes thinking about the boy she's trying to find and when she opens her eyes, she's on the back of a horse. "I totally did not expect that to work"
Robb not realizing that she had seemingly just appeared on the horse behind him jumps in shock and ends up falling off his horse which caused Ella to burst out laughing as Ned turned to his son "Son are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine... don't know what happened there" He shoots a glare at the blonde on the back of the horse as she's laughing "I am sorry about that I was not expecting that to happen"
Theon and Jon are both laughing as well and he turns the glare towards them "not a word" he climbs back onto the horse.
Ella who has now calmed down slightly grins even though Robb can't see her face "I really didn't mean for that to happen but it was comical and I am sorry for scaring you it wasn't intentional."
He grumbled something about talking about it later and Ella shrugged knowing he won't say anything since his dad, friend and half-brother are there, he will wait until it's just the two of them so say something about what just happened.
Ella spent the rest of the trip trying to get the boy in front of her to laugh or even crack a smile but she failed which only caused her to pout for a few seconds before trying again.
Once the two were finally alone and Robb could talk to her without looking mad he gave her a look, she gives him an innocent look back "Come on little wolf... I said I was sorry and it really was an accident... I didn't even expect it to work"
He is still giving her a look "Really Ella?"
"I didn't mean to scare you... honest I was looking for you and I did a sweep of the place and you weren't here so I thought maybe since this is a dream for me that I could maybe like just pop up wherever you were and I didn't think it would work but it did"
He looks at her for a moment seeing the sincerity in her eyes he nods "alright I believe you, Ella, it was an accident"
She smiles at him "okay cool I was willing to beg if you would believe it but I don't have to do that now, so uh back in my own world I guess you could say you will never guess what I found"
Robb laughs "Okay then if I'll never guess it then tell me"
She grins "okay so I was exploring in the caves that run underneath our village with my oldest younger brother Finn and we got pretty deep into the cave and then we both heard this sound like fire crackling and then there was this weird blue light that surrounded us and then when it disappeared there was an egg on the ground at my feet, so naturally I took it home and showed it to my father and he told me it was a fossilized dragon egg... How amazing is that? I own a real dragon egg... father says it'll never hatch but still, I own it... who else can say that?"
Robb looked at her in surprise "Like a real dragon egg?"
Ella nodded with a smile on her face "yeah or at least that's what my father said when I showed him the egg, said it was a fossilized dragon egg and then he said I could keep it, so I put it in a safe place and I am going to keep it forever"
Robb laughed again "that sounds nice Ella"
She grins at him and they both laugh, the embarrassment from before completely forgotten.
After a little while, Arya walked up to Robb and Unknown to her Rhaella as well "Robb who are you talking to? You promised to help me when you got back from hunting with father... even if mother doesn't like it"
He sighed "no one Arya and can't we do it later?"
Ella grins teasingly at him "here we go with the no one thing again... I'm hurt, wolf boy... you know I'm starting to think you're ashamed of me" Robb gives Ella a look and she laughs "little wolf you make this far too easy... go on, your sister is what 8? I was a year younger than her when I picked up my first blade, I can give you silent pointers for you to relay to your sister"
Arya gives him a look "But you promised"
He nods at her "fine Arya let's go... Like you said I did promise"
The youngest Stark girl smiles happily and runs off to the training area.
Robb gives Ella a look "I swear you do that on purpose... You know that if I told them there was someone there that they couldn't see they'd think me mad"
Ella just grins at him and whispers "maybe you are"
He rolled his eyes at her as the two walked towards the training area.
And so Ella sat atop some crates while Robb helped Arya, Ella gave out pointers for the boy to relay to his sister as if it were him telling her all along.
After the session with his youngest sister, Robb looked at Ella once they were alone again "you really do know what you're talking about"
Ella smirked at him "I told you, I have been training since I was seven, yeah I know what I'm talking about... Maybe one day we could actually have a sparring match and I can prove first hand just how much I know what I'm talking about here"
Robb laughed "Maybe, one day we will"
Ella smiled brightly at him "I really hope so, it would bring me immense joy to beat you"
He rolled his eyes "yes Ella I'm sure it would" she laughs.
Jon walked over to the duo to talk to his brother and Ella grinned at Robb "his hair is so fluffy and I just want to touch it"
Robb snorted out a laugh at the look on Ella's face and Jon is looking at him confused "what? I haven't said anything"
Robb shakes his head at him "it's nothing"
Ella is still grinning now she's directly beside Jon "Like seriously how does one get that much fluff into their hair... I want my hair to be fluffy like that and I want to feel his hair"
Robb laughs into his hand looking at Ella still laughing "Stop it... Ella, stop trying to touch his hair"
She looks at him "But it's fluffy and I wanna touch it" Jon is just looking at Robb confused having no clue what is going on whatsoever.
"Doesn't seem to be working for you does it?"
She pouts "No"
Robb is giving her a look "Are you gonna stop?"
She still has a pout on her face "no."
"Ella!"
She sighs still pouting "Yes"
Jon looks at Robb again the look of confusion still on his face "Uhh Robb who are you talking too and who's Ella?"
Ella grins at him "Oh I'd like to see you talk your way out of this one"
Robb shakes his head "No one It's nothing Jon, don't worry about it" Ella is just laughing waiting to see what the black-haired boy is gonna say back.
"You were clearly just talking to someone and you called them Ella... But there is nobody there."
Robb sighs "just forget about it okay? I don't know how to explain this without sounding mad... So can you please just forget about this little incident?"
Jon is giving Robb a strange look "yeah sure."
Ella just smirks trying to make it worse "I still wanna touch his hair"
Robb bites his lip fighting the urge to look at her, while still talking to Jon "what is it that you came over here to talk about?"
Ella sat up in her bed with a smile on her face, she rather likes the dreams where she gets to see Robb and tease him about things.
She decides to get up and get ready for the day after she realized that she was not going back to sleep.
