𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 | 𝑱𝒂𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏

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𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒

This is a little something I conjured up for Jaime Lannister's appreciation month. I made a small edit with pictures that I snatched from Google and I wrote something as well.

For context in case anyone becomes confused the writing is about Jaime loosing his hand and then learning how to live without it.

#appreciationpost

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍

No one knows of a feeling as dreadful as the one that tears at the soul when you loose something so precious to you. It's an ache that can never be replaced no matter how hard you try. Your lungs will hurt from screaming in sheer agony and your heart will clench until you can barely breathe yet you will still never regain what it was that is no longer there.

The pain will last

but it is those first awful months

that are the worst.

You are shaken to your very core and worst of all you drown yourself in the depths of denial. Such a thing brings down a heavy weight and it is hard to see the true gravity of what really happened right before your very horror filled gaze. But just when you swim to the surface and try to go on with life as it once was you will find that it is impossible to return to your normal ways. So you become angry, wallowing in your shame for in your mind you wonder how you could ever let such a thing happen. The thought of the very situation alone makes a little piece of you die each time you glance at that part of you that is missing.

Your thoughts never help

of course.

Being in such misery accompanied by that in which is your mind will always make your eyes glossy with tears that threaten to run like rivers down your handsome face. Your confidence has dwindled to nothing, you feel as if you've been rendered useless and worst of all you think you have no purpose. But alas you do not have time for self pity, you are a lion and there will always be other predators trying to take more of you away as the days go on. They will laugh at you but you will learn.

So in the space of what's lost

you place there a bandage of gold.

There will be no more shame because there is something that none can take and that is your spirit. And as long as your spirit stands your enemies shall fall at your feet that have traveled through chaos and suffering. You will show them that you are not just a pretty picture but also a beast that rises back to his feet, a man of courage.

For you are Ser Jaime Lannister

The Golden Lion.

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