In accordance with Princess Rhaenys's final wishes, Danyla and the others cremated her at High Heart.
Rhaena even placed the dragon egg she had spent so long carefully incubating on the cremation platform. Apparently, Corlys the Sea Snake wanted to hatch it the way Danyla had hatched hers. Unfortunately, they had no idea that their dragon egg was a fake.
Ah! If you could copy it that easily, it wouldn't be blood magic that only descendants of Valyrian blood could perform!
Danyla paid them no heed and continued leading the others in a devout chant of Valyrian blood sacrifice spells.
By the time Princess Rhaenys had been reduced entirely to ashes, all her bloodline power and soul power had dispersed into the dragon eggs beneath the weirwood.
Rhaena's dragon egg, however, showed no particular change beyond a brighter sheen from the flames. Corlys the Sea Snake and Rhaena were both bitterly disappointed and dejected. From this day onward, House Velaryon would no longer be a dragonriding house.
Having lost her rider, Meleys the Red Queen would not let even Danyla approach her easily now, much less either of them.
To give his daughter a chance to tame Meleys, Corlys the Sea Snake made the rare concession of bowing his proud head to Danyla.
"Your Majesty! Rhaena and Lara are still young, and I'm a man who knows nothing about caring for children. Might you..."
"Leave them in my sister's care and mine!"
Although Danyla knew exactly what he was scheming, she readily agreed out of regard for Princess Rhaenys.
"Rest assured, we'll care for them as our own daughters. Half the blood flowing in their veins is Targaryen, after all."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
After a few final glances at Meleys circling high overhead and crying mournfully, the Sea Snake