#except myself

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I don't want to do this.

The city is crumbling.

Falling in muffled chaos around me.

The ground shakes,

I grew up here,

And I shiver alone,

And I don't want to do this.

I reach my arms out,

Searching for the water's surface.

The light is breaking through

In nearly crystalized rays.

It is breathtaking.

It is beautiful.

Beneath me,

It is cold,

And dark,

And I don't want to do this.

I sob over the pills,

In that messy little bathroom.

"I've got you." You laugh,

But you never have.

And so I do it.

I finally take the goddamn

Antidepressant.

On Planetos the dragons never stop growing so the oldest are the largest, which makes a difference in battle. Vhagar (ridden by Aemond One-Eye) is twice as large as other fully grown dragons. So the age of the dragon makes a huge difference in battle. Vhagar is basically the Mountain of dragons and the others are Oberyn Martell.

Dreamfyre (Queen Helaena) is the next oldest dragon, but Helaena, precious bug princess, isn't as interested in battle as her brothers.

Caraxes (Prince Daemon) and Meleys (Princess Rhaenys) are both similar in age. Caraxes is about half the size of Vhagar while Meleys is said to be the swiftest of all the dragons.

Syrax (Rhaenerya) is about the same age as Seasmoke and here is where things get interesting. Seasmoke was ridden by Laenor, but Laenor is gone.

I'm not sure the show has really shown this yet, but there are dragons on Dragonstone that are older, and again, larger that don't have riders. We see a glimpse of Daemon singing to one in the trailer for next week (I think it is Vermithor?).

I don't know if we will get it next week, but there will be a race to find people that can ride these dragons which is very interesting to me because we are going to see how a dragon can be tamed. So far we know it involves shouting in Valyrian at them and having Valyrian blood. But we don't know how much Valyrian blood one needs to ride a dragon. Finding this out could be important for the ending of ASOIAF because Dany needs to find riders for her two extras (many including the show Game of Thrones have suspected Jon Snow as a dragon rider, but could there be another?) .

THE GREENS

Sunfyre - Riden by Aegon II, the Poor Man's Evan Peters

Vhagar - Riden by Aemond One-Eye, She's the Baddest Bitch on the Block

Dreamfyre - Riden by Heleana Targaryen, Not Really Seen on the Show

Tessarion - Riden by Daeron Targaryen, Sir Not Appearing in this Picture (aka Alicent's Fourth Child Who Lives in Oldtown who hasn't been cast as far as I know)

Morghul & Shrykos- Bonded to the twins Jaehaerys and Jaehaera (the babies seen playing on the floor this episode), not large enough to ride.

THE BLACKS

[Vermithor - The former mount of Old King Jaeherys. Rider TBD!]

[Silverwing - The former mount of Good Queen Alysanne. Rider TBD.]

Caraxes - Ridden by Daemon Targaryen. Caraxes is most likely the oldest dragon on Team Black.

Meleys - Ridden by Rhaenys Targaryen. Fastest dragon, good for warning people their dumb half-brother got crowned in your place.

Syrax - Ridden by Rhaenyra

[Seasmoke - Former mount of Laenor Velayron]

Vermax - Jacerys Velayron

Arrax - Lucerys Velayron

Tyraxes - Joffrey Velayron

Moondancer - Baela Targaryen

Morning - Rhaena Targaryen (NOTE: Last we saw on HotD Rhaena's egg hadn't hatched. But we saw Daemon retrieve another egg last episode and that was believed to be this one. I am not certain, due to time jumps, if Morning has bonded with Rhaena yet. Would love to see it in the final episode!)

Stormcloud - Bonded to baby Aegon Targaryen ("Aegon the Younger"), not big enough to ride.

[Sheepstealer - A feral dragon never ridden before that lives on Dragonstone. Sheepstealer's age is not known but he may be as large as old as Dreamfyre]