With her dragon beside her, the princess slowly began to go out of her shyness; at the age of twelve she took to the skies for the first time, and thereafter, though she remained a quiet girl, no one dared to call her timid. Not long after, Rhaena made her first friend in the person of her cousin Larissa Velaryon. For a time the girls were inseparable. until Larissa was suddenly recalled to Drift mark to be wed to the second son of the Evenstar of Tarth. The young are nothing if not resilient, however, and the princess soon found a new companion in the Hands daughter, Samantha Stokeworth.
Uh okay … that’s was an oddly phrased paragraph about female friendship… I’m probably thinking too much on it. *Flips a couple pages*
All along the route the smallfolk appeared by the hundreds and thousands to hail their new king and queen and cheer the young princes and princess. But whilst Aegon and Viserys relished in the cheers of the crowds and the feasts and frolics put on at every castle to entertain the new monarch and his family, Princess Rhaena reverted to her former shyness. At Storms End, Orys Baratheon’s maester went so far as to write, “ The princess did not seem to want to be there, nor did she approve of anything she saw or heard She scarce seemed to eat, would not hunt or hawk, and when pressed to sing–for she is said to have a lovely voice—she refused rudely and returned to her chambers. The princess had been most loath to be parted from her dragon, Dreamfyre, and her latest favorite, Melony Piper, a red-haired maiden from the riverlands. It was only when her mother, Queen Alyssa, sent for Lady Melony to join them on the progress that Rhaena finally put aside her sullenness to join the celebrations.
Wait … no … can it be?