"Come back, Winter Rose!" Lilia ran after her direwolf through the gardens. She didn't understand why it was running away from her. She knew the direwolf wanted to play, and since Lilia had been too busy with Myrcella, Winter Rose saw this as an opportunity to catch her owner's attention once again. "Why are you so stubborn? Come here!"

"As stubborn as her owner" a voice caught Lilia's attention. The Red Viper was standing there with a piece of meat, right behind her. "And just as fascinating"

"Thank you... I guess" she said with a smile. He threw the piece of meat next to Lilia and then, he whistled, catching the direwolf's attention. Soon, she was running right back and devouring her meal.

"A direwolf is from the North, not the South. And she can't be locked up in your chambers all day. Direwolves are loyal beasts and wild ones, they don't do well in closed spaces" he stated, making Lilia furrow her forehead. She wasn't aware that Oberyn Martell knew much about direwolves and wild animals in general. "I was studying to become a Meister"

"What? You were?" he nodded with a smirk playing on his lips. "What happened?"

"Got bored" he explained. Lilia giggled at his explanation. She had heard that Oberyn Martell was a free spirit, so it made sense that he gave up. They started to walk as Lilia expected him to tell her more about his time in the Citadel. "I heard you and my squire, Daemon, got along very well"

"Did you?" she responded in panic. What would people say about her taking walks around the gardens with him at night? What if someone had seen him comfort her?

"Don't worry, people in Dorne don't care about what you do concerning those aspects" Oberyn explained. "If not, how do you think Arianne would live her life the way she does now?"

"She wouldn't," Lilia concluded. "Your squire was very kind to me"

"I see" he pointed out with a smirk. "Both of you can't stop smiling today. Coming from him, I wouldn't suspect it. But coming from a girl who would do nothing but keep that terrified, sad, concerned facial expression... I suppose you spent some good quality time with him"

"We danced and talked" she cleared out any perversion Oberyn could create. "He's a good man"

"He is, indeed" Oberyn stated with a knowing facial expression. "He took a liking to you"

"What? That's nonsense!" she reacted straight away, making Oberyn furrow his eyebrows together. He took a minute to analyse the Stark girl's reaction. When she was done studying it, he smirked. "What are you smirking about? He was just being gentle, just like a knight should be"

"You took a liking to him as well, I see" the man pointed out, noticing the girl's cheeks blushing. "I bet that you went to bed thinking about him"

"I did not!" she denied, even though it was true. Lilia would never say so, she could be as stubborn as her direwolf, indeed. Besides, saying so would be so embarrassing that she thought was best to keep it a secret.

"If you say so..." then, she froze where she stood upon the vision of Daemon riding his horse while battling someone else. He won and once he took off his helmet and shook his head, making his sandy blonde hair shake due to the wind. It was a hot wind, yet it made complimented his looks even more. "He's getting better every day"

When the boy looked up, his eyes met Lilia's and his smile widened even more. Lilia smiled back at him, waiting to see what else he could do. Instead, he got off his horse and walked all the way to where she was standing.

"My Prince" he bowed to Oberyn out of respect, to which the man just nodded in acknowledge. Then, he grabbed Lilia's hand a placed a kiss on it, gallantly. "My Lady, I hope you've had a good night sleep"

"Yes, I did" she assured him still with the foolish smile, or at least, what she would have considered foolish years ago. She could not look at herself but she did know what she was doing and she could only imagine how stupid she looked like. She hated to look like a stupid, foolish, little girl. Yet, that was what she was behaving like. She knew that. She hated it. However, she couldn't help it. "I hope you had one too"

"I did, My Lady" Oberyn coughed in order to get the attention of both of the young people he had in front of him. "My Prince, is there anything you need?"

"I need you to keep training instead of flirting with our guest" Daemon looked at his feet out of embarrassment. "Beating Ser Asher is quite easy. I want you to spar with me! Bring me a spar!"

Oberyn went towards their improvised field of battle with Daemon, attacking him before the boy had his chance to prepare himself. Lilia stood there, watching them as they went.

"The enemy won't wait for you to get ready!" Oberyn yelled as he tried to attack the boy, who managed to defend himself each time. Lilia had seen her brothers train with one another, between Robb, Jon and Bran, they would always fight Ser Rodrik or even each other. However, Lilia had never watched men spar with each other. Then, he hit the boy repeatedly, making Daemon fall to the ground. Lilia covered her mouth with her hands while watching him trying to stand up while avoiding the Red Viper's attempts at knocking him to the floor once again. "Fight hard, fight smart!"

They kept on sparing for what felt like hours, until Daemon fell to the ground, spitting blood on the floor. Lilia went towards the boy, who was laying on the floor, exhausted. However, as she was about to reach them, Ser Asher forbids her from going to the boy.

"Stand up and fight!" Oberyn screamed with authority. Lilia had never seen that side of the man, so strict.

"I can't!" Daemon said back while trying to stand up and failing miserably. Oberyn went closer to him, looking down at him.

"You won't be knighted until you learn not to give up," he said. "Until then, you'll be nothing but a squire like any other"

"Father!" a girl comes running to him, hugging him. Oberyn drops the spear and hugs back the girl. "I missed you"

"I missed you, Elia!" he said while looking at her in the eyes. "Let's go, I believe you have much to tell me"

"I do" they walked out of the field and Lilia headed there, kneeling next to Daemon who was still spitting blood. She handed him a bottle of water as he smiled at her.

"That's his fifth daughter, Elia. He named her after his dearest sister" Daemon explained, making Lilia slightly confused. How could he stand there like that after getting his ass kicked and after being humiliated by the man who he serves as a squire? "She's the most complicated one"

"How do you see him with the same eyes after what just happened?" Lilia asked out of shock. He looked at her in the eyes as he cleaned his wounds with a cloth she had fetched him previously.

"He means well and I believe that his training is fair to me" Lilia helped him stand up and they walked out of there with him supporting some of his weight on her shoulder. "You don't have to carry me around"

"You are hurt" she pointed out with concern in her words. He touched her hair and tucked a part of it behind her ear.

"I'm alright" he stated, starting to walk on his own, followed by a warry Lilia. "I'm just going to wash my wounds, and I'll be fine"

"See a Meistre, please!" Lilia begged him. He turned to face her and walked over to her. Lilia's heart started to race due to their proximity. Another stupidity she never thought she would believe in, yet there she was. His eyes went to her lips and soon, her breathing was also very irregular. It didn't matter how much she yelled at herself to control herself, she just seemed unable to do so. "What... what are you... doing?"

As he leaned in and Lilia became even more anxious, he kissed her forehead respectfully and walked away, leaving her there with her thoughts and stupid hopes about what could have taken place there.

"I'm so stupid and so foolish it pains me" she muttered to herself. 

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