Viserys's unease was soon vindicated.
While he was on his way back to Valyria, an attack from the shadows struck Dragonwing Castle.
Through his warg sight, he watched the chaos unfolding at Dragonwing Castle late at night and urgently dispatched Blackflame to help.
Shortly after he and King Ghidorah left Valyria, the assassins had bribed their way aboard a merchant ship and blended into the fleet bound for Valyria. After landing at the docks, they used disguises and stealth to evade the tight patrols and slip into the area around Dragonwing Castle.
Late that night, they launched their assassination attempt.
They split into two teams. One tried to infiltrate Dragonwing Castle's temporary dragonpit. Their targets were the young dragons. Capturing them and taking them away would be ideal, but failing that, they were to kill as many as possible.
The other team crept toward the castle's residential quarters, aiming to assassinate the members of House Targaryen.
These assassins came from the House of the Undying in Qarth. They were well-trained shadowbinders and shadow killers, skilled in shadow magic and the use of poison.
The team infiltrating the dragonpit evaded the Unsullied's tight security. With their shadow magic, slipping past the Unsullied's watchful eyes was well within their abilities.
Though magic was currently at a low ebb, that did not mean it was entirely impossible to cast spells. Many wizards and others like them could still use special methods to wield magic.
These assassins, for instance, could cast spells by sacrificing their own lives.
Yet they had underestimated both the dragons' supernatural senses and the young dragons' strength, especially the first four to hatch, which had now grown almost as large as ponies.
As figures carrying the aura of dark magic and unmistakable malice approached, the resting Balerion opened his dark