House Beesbury was also one of the few houses in the Reach that worshipped the Old Gods. They knew full well that their lands lay close to Oldtown and that they had long been a thorn in the side of the Faith of the Seven.
Moreover, according to rumors they had heard, during the Dance of the Dragons, House Targaryen had not been the only house gathering the bloodlines of bastards left behind by generations of Targaryen Dragonlords. House Hightower had also been hunting them down in secret.
Their purpose in finding these people had been to marry them to members of their own house and produce Hightower children with the Targaryen bloodline, then replace the Targaryens entirely and become the new house of Dragonlords.
Those rumors had not spread widely through the Reach at the time, because House Hightower's influence there had long since surpassed that of House Tyrell. They had been powerful enough to suppress anything they wished.
But then word had reached Westeros that Viserys had rediscovered Dragons on Essos, across the Narrow Sea.
House Hightower also seemed to have begun searching again for those members of its family who already carried the Targaryen bloodline. Though no one knew the truth of the matter, it was enough to keep House Beesbury and the other two houses awake at night.
They knew better than anyone that, although House Hightower had failed during the Dance of the Dragons, it had never truly abandoned its designs on the Dragons. But they also understood Viserys's strength better than others did.
That was because House Hightower had once ordered all of them to send men to Volantis to search for other descendants bearing the blood of Valyrian Dragonlords.
They therefore knew better than the other houses of Westeros just how powerful Viserys's