Rhea; the Dixon residence, 0930 hours; a few hours before Colonel Dixon met with Ashara.

A gentle gust of wind brushed little Rhea's cheeks as she stood on ground covered in bright green grass looking out to the ocean. She could see the large body of water end far off into the distance before she heard the tune of strings being plucked. Rhea turned and saw nothing behind her, or to either her left or right sides. There was just grass and a mountain in the distance. But the tune continued to play in her ear. Just then, an image of a gently curved stringed object formed in her mind… once the object formed in her mind, she knew what it was called.

'A harp,' Rhea thought to herself as she turned her head towards the sound. It was coming from the direction of the large tall mountain in the distance. But there was no one there. She could hear the plucking of the strings when her eyes were closed; it was a sad tone. She didn't know why it was sad though. Rhea opened her eyes again and stared at the mountain when the sound of the harp being played suddenly stopped. Now all that remained was the sound of waves crashing into the foot of the cliff where she was standing.

"Father?!" Rhea yelled out as she looked away from the mountain before she turned back towards the tall and ragged outcrop of a mountain in the distance. She didn't know why she yelled out for her father. She did not know why she felt there should be something she should be able to see around, or on, the mountain. "Mother!? Aaron?!"

"RAWWWWWGHHHH!"

Rhea froze when she heard that trembling roar. She looked around her upon hearing the roar again, 'but I'm alone. There is no one here.'

"RAWWWWGGGHHHHH!" Rhea looked up at the cloudless sky while her little heart raced inside her chest. There was nothing in the sky other than a flock of birds flying over the water and past the bright sun. She could hear the birds squawking to each other before the roar sounded again. This time it was coming from behind her. Rhea spun around and stared at the end of the cliff. She gulped, the little girl, tears already forming in her eyes, was terrified as she called out "Lainie!" while stepping back.

"RAWWWWWWGGGHHHHH!"

Rhea stumbled down onto the grass.

"Lainie!"

She felt tears flowing down her face as she screamed in fear at the roar which seemed to be closer. It rattled her bones, and more tears flowed down her cheeks as she sobbed. She stared at the edge of the cliff through puffy red eyes as the sound of large wings flapping sped towards her. She wanted to get away.

Rhea called out for her mother, her father, her baby brother, Colonel Dixon, Lainie and their boys. As if from a far distance away, Rhea could hear a female voice calling out, "Rhea!" as she cried. The sound of the roar and the flapping of wings were getting closer and closer. And then… Rhea felt her heart stop and she held her breath at the large winged creature that darted up into to the sky. Rhea's eyes followed the creature as it went higher and higher into the sky… its large wings flapping to push it upwards.

Whatever it was, it was big. Very big. It flew towards the sun and covered it… as the creature covered the sun, Rhea saw a shadow on the grass moving over her. She topped sobbing… her tears still left a trail on her cheeks as she watched the creature in the air. She could only just make out the colouring of its body… silver with hints of gold. The creature roared in the sky once again before diving towards Rhea.

"Rhea!"

There was that female voice again… it sounded as if it was coming from so far away. Rhea closed her eyes just as the creature was inches away. She could see the silver and gold eyes of the creature on either side of its enormous head. It already had its giant mouth open in a roar… and Rhea screamed out in fear of the razor-sharp teeth within; and she sobbed. Suddenly, she did not feel the warmth from the sun nor did she feel the warm breeze, nor could she hear the roar of the creature in the sky. Even the sounds of the waves crashing against the base of the cliff was gone. All were replaced by cold and a chilly wetness around her. Rhea opened her eyes slowly… she was still fearful that the creature from earlier was in the sky and coming towards her.

But it was not. Where she was once on grass and the sly was bright and sunny, now she was surrounded by white all around her. She looked up to see greyish skies as white powder fell to the earth. Slowly getting up onto her feet, Rhea looked around while rubbing away the tears in her eyes and the streams that trailed down her red puffy cheeks.

'Snow,' she thought to herself as she looked around before facing the outline made by her body on the snow-covered ground. She then looked up from the outline of her body – the outline now slowly being covered by the falling snow - and then affixed her eyes on the wall of ice. The wall of ice looked just as it did in her previous dream. The wall was so high up that she had to actually bend her back to see all the way up… but the top of the wall was covered in clouds. She then straitened her back and turned her head from one side to the other… the wall went further than her eyes could see.

She felt snow falling in her hair, her forehead, her shoulders… the snow fell faster and faster around her. There was a sudden fear that gripped her heart when she felt a shudder through the ground and up through her little body.

And then there was the sound of a roar. Rhea looked around at the sky for the creature. There was none, but then again, this roar did not sound as if it was coming from the same creature in her other dream where she was on the cliff. Suddenly, there was the sound of something breaking coming from behind her. Rhea turned her body towards the wall and she opened her eyes in shock and fear. She didn't know why she was feeling fear at the sight of deep cracks forming on the wall… but it increased when more cracks opened up along the surface.

The cracks widened and expanded all the up the wall. And then, with another roar that shook her body, Rhea watch a section of the wall shatter and then crash down to the ground. Rhea could feel her heart racing while feeling a sense of being pulled back from the debris by an invisible force as it crashed down. Once the rock and ice stopped shifting after having crashed onto the ground, Rhea felt her fear increase as the dust and snow kicked up into the air from the impact of the falling ice and rock started to slowly drift back down. Through the falling dust and debris, she could now see a large opening in the wall.

It was then she heard another roar. But there was something different about it, Rhea just could not make out what it was that made the roar so different.

'It feels like… like something bad… very bad,' Rhea thought as she stared at the hole. She took in a deep breath when she thought she saw movement through the cloud of dust and snow.

Rhea stepped back as her face twisted in fear at the sight of the figure that stepped out of the dust high above her. The figure was wearing back armour that reflected the cloud covered sun in such a way as if it was covered in ice. Even from where she stood, Rhea could make out the bony horse it was riding while holding a sword in one hand. The figure then looked down at her… at least she thought it was looking at her. Rhea watched the figure raise its left arm as it continued staring at Rhea… and then it screamed. Rhea put her hands over her ears to block the terrifying sound of a scream that resembled ice cracking all around her. Rhea screamed as well.

"Rhea!"

The distant voice cried out once again as Rhea heard inhuman screams around her. She opened her eyes and screamed even louder when she saw figures that were bones with pieces of skin hanging off them, some with no arms, others having only half a head… all Rhea knew was that they were scary… and that they were coming after her. And at that thought, Rhea screamed even louder.

"Rhea!"

Rhea opened her eyes to meet Lainie's concerned expression looking down at her. The older woman was sitting on the edge of her bed with one hand on her forehead and the other hand holding her right hand.

"It's alright, sweetie," Lainie softly said with a worried voice as she gently wiped the tears off Rhea's red and puffy cheeks, "you're just having a nightmare."

Rhea felt her heart calming down as she stared at the concern on Lainie's face before nodding her head. She had a nightmare; a dream of fear. She didn't know if she had any other nightmares before this one, but it certainly was a fearful dream. And then, as she moved her legs beneath her blanket, Rhea left the wet sheets.

"I was scared." Rhea heard her own quivering voice quietly speak out before she looked away and down her body in shame, "I… I think I wet the bed."

"It's alright," Lainie gently said as she pulled the blanket off Rhea's body and helped her sit up.

Rhea had tears falling down her cheeks again when the stench hit her nostrils, "sorry… sorry."

"It's alright, Rhea," Lainie gently said as she helped her off the bed and then the two of them walked out of the room hand in hand. In the hallway, the older woman said gently, "we'll get you cleaned up and then dried off… and in the meantime, how about you tell me about your nightmare." As they entered the washroom, Rhea looked up at Lainie and said that her nightmare was scary; at least that she thought it was scary.

"It helps to talk about it," Lainie said as she got down on one knee, "there's nothing to be scared about, it's just a nightmare. It can't hurt you."

Rhea clasped her small hands together and fidgeted with her fingers while nodding her head.

"After we're done, how about the two of us go downstairs for some breakfast and then, since the boys are at school, we go out for a walk?"

Rhea gave a small smile before slowly nodding her head. It would be then that Lainie turned around to close the door before giving Rhea a bath.

Ashara

Ashara was awed at what she was seeing as she cautiously walked out of the ship. She took her first step on the deck of what Colonel Dixon referred to as the landing bay and was immediately met with the sight of open space several meters in front of her. Her eyes were wide open as she took another step forward while Colonel Dixon, and then Daniel, and Teal'c walked down the ramp followed by Captain Holland who nodded at her before walking away. And then she turned her head back towards the large opening they had only just flew through.

"Welcome aboard the Phoenix," Colonel Dixon said. At first Ashara heard his voice as if it was coming from a great distance, after all her eyes were on the opening that looked out into inky blackness that was poke marked by pin-pricks of light. They were close to the edge… not close as in if she took one step then she would reach the edge of the landing bay, but close enough to see part of the blue green world below. Ashara took a few more steps towards the edge and then stopped…. She leaned over slightly to gasp at the sight of the continent of Westeros and parts of Essos covered by clouds. She was looking at her world from above, from among the stars.

"Amazing," Ashara whispered at the view before her eyes and head turned towards the interior of the hanger bay. There were strange contraptions lined along the walls… the larger things were resting on what looked to be three legs each and had dark grey skin that reflected the lights above. And that was another thing, Ashara looked up at the ceiling and then at the walls; there were no torches or candles – yet there was light illuminating the entire space around her. And then there were the objects lined close to the walls on either side of her… she didn't know what they were but she felt a sense of… she didn't really know what she felt as she stared at the dark grey skinned object with what seemed to be wings and a 'head' covered in something that was transparent, 'could that be glass? What is that… thing? It looks like a bird but yet, it does not seem to be alive.' She then saw Teal'c stop alongside her.

She turned her head towards the former Jaffa who said, "they are fighter interceptors designed to operate in space or in the atmosphere of a planet." Ashara didn't know what to think as she turned her head back towards the objects – or rather the fighter interceptors – and then back towards her left side towards the vast opening of the hanger bay and out into the darkness beyond.

"When you say they operate out in space and…" Ashara shook her head in disbelief as she turned her head towards Teal'c who now had Daniel and the Colonel standing on either side of him, "what do you mean?"

"They can fly out there where there is no air to breath or to fly," Daniel pointed out into space as Ashara's eyebrows were lifted high towards her forehead, "or in the atmosphere of a planet where we have all those things to help these fighters fly in the sky."

"Oh," Ashara was fascinated as she looked back at the Jumper and then at the fighters and then she turned to the Colonel and asked, "they fly like this…" she motioned towards the Jumper before continuing, "out there? I mean when we are back home?"

"The Jumper uses different technology to fly," the Colonel said after watching Ashara point at the planet before and guessed that she wanted to ask if the fighters flew in a similar way to the Jumper through an atmosphere, "but the flight principles are similar."

"Fascinating," Ashara whispered looking back out into space.

"We have to get going," Colonel Dixon said as he motioned towards a nearby metallic door that slid open to reveal a brightly lit hallway. It was just then that Ashara thought she felt the ship moving. Looking away from the three men, she stared at the large opening once again. Ashara saw the stars in the distance shifting… she saw the part of her planet she had been able to see with awe earlier shifting to the left. She saw a blue cloud forming in the distance as the ship sped towards it – Ashara didn't know if it was possible for clouds to form in space, all she knew at that moment was what her own eyes were showing her. There was a cloud, and then a flash of blue as they entered the cloud. When the flash faded away, Ashara found herself breathing in and out for a few seconds before gulping at the sight of the blue and white tunnel that seemed to have engulfed the hanger bay.

'There was darkness and now…' Ashara thought as she stared out into the blue and white tunnel outside.

"The stars," Ashara whispered before turning towards Teal'c and the others just as she heard footsteps behind her. Turning around, she saw six men and woman in strange garb – maintenance and uniforms – rushing out the door just as he heard the Colonel speak out.

It was then that the Colonel ordered, "Secure the jumper."

They nodded their heads before rushing past her before she turned back towards the Colonel who said, "I know you have questions about where we are and what's going to happen next." The Colonel looked out at the blue and white tunnel while the maintenance crew begun their work on the Jumper. He then turned back towards Ashara and continued, "we're flying through a region of space called hyperspace."

Ashara nodded speechlessly as her mind tried to process that information as the Colonel clarified, "think of it as taking a journey that would normally take years and finishing it in a few hours… about two hours in fact."

"Oh," Ashara managed to say in surprise.

"We'll take you to the infirmary," Daniel then, after noticing the quizzical expression on Ashara's face, clarified, "it's where our healers need to immunize you against illness."

"I don't…" Ashara didn't understand. Were they saying that they thought she had an illness or a disease or was it something else entirely? Before she could finish her question, Daniel jumped in with a reassuring voice to say that she may not have an immunity to some of the illnesses back on Earth, and those illness could afflict her if she wasn't protected. Ashara nodded her head when Teal'c said that there was nothing to worry about, and that this was the procedure with some visitors to their world.

"We'll also have to brief you on what will happen next," the Colonel said motioning towards the open door she assumed led to the inside of the ship, "but first, let's get to the infirmary to get you checked out and immunized."

With a reassuring nod from Daniel and Teal'c, Ashara turned and stated to walk alongside Colonel Dixon. They strode towards the door with Daniel and Teal'c behind them. Before passing over the threshold and into the hallway, Ashara glanced at the hyperspace tunnel. Ashara knew that her life had already changed significantly, after all she was already experiencing something that the people of her world would call out as being impossible.

'Traveling the stars to another world,' Ashara thought as she stepped into the hallway, 'Rhaenys, my dear Rhaenys, whether you remember me or not, I have a feeling in my heart you will have a good life on Earth.'

Ashara; Forty-five minutes later.

The room where Ashara was being housed while on the journey to Earth was grey walled on all sides, even the floor was grey; the only brightness in the otherwise dull room were the lights above and the blue and white lights outside the window. There was a small bed with a mattress that did not seem to be filled with feathers but felt comfortable any way as she pressed down with one hand before she stood back up again. It was nearly forty-five minutes since she was escorted by Teal'c and Daniel to the guest chambers where she would be housed for the duration of the flight.

'I am flying,' Ashara thought in awe once again as she turned her head and stared out the window to her left and into the hyperspace tunnel, 'I'm really flying among the stars.' She rubbed the site where she had the immunization jab on her upper arm after a female healer examined her in a private area of the infirmary. Ashara didn't have many of her questions answered by the female healer, 'she said that most of my questions would be answered by Dixon and the others.'

It was then, while she reminisced about the conversation she had with the healer, there was a knock on the door.

"Come," she said after turning around. There was a 'beep' and then the door slid open to reveal Colonel Dixon carrying something in his hand with Daniel next to him. The Colonel asked if he could come in, to which Ashara nodded her head. The Colonel walked in, followed by Daniel who said they were there to explain what would happen next. As the door slid shut, Ashara motioned towards the table where there were four chairs and the three of them sat down.

"Rhaenys has been given a new identity on Earth," Daniel said while the Colonel placed the blue folder on the table. Daniel placed his hand on the folder and continued, "this has her new history as Rhea Tanner."

Ashara reached for the folder and opened it. She flipped the top cover and gasped at the picture on the top of the sheets of paper underneath. It was a paper, slightly thicker than a normal raven scroll and glossy like the image of Rhaenys that Oberyn and Doran showed her. This 'photograph' as these people called it, showed Rhaenys smiling as she leaned on an image of Elia carrying a sleeping bundle in her arms. And behind Elia sat a happy Rhaegar Targaryen who hand one hand on his wife's shoulder and the other one on Rhaenys' back. Ashara stared at the picture… they were so alike the picture of Elia and Rhaenys in her own mind, after all she had known the two of them for years. Only difference between the Elia and Rhaegar she knew were the clothes they wore in the photograph, clothes of the Earthers.

"We're creating a few more pictures using the paintings that Prince Doran commission for Elia and Rhaegar," Colonel Dixon said, "we'll be giving that to Rhea in a few days. We thought it would be better if you could give this to her as Elia's close friend."

A close friend – it wasn't a lie. In essence, that is what she really was to Elia. They were best friends in Dorne even before Elia married Rhaegar. In addition, she was also a near constant in the life of Rhaenys who used to call her "Ash" when the girl learnt to speak. Ashara looked up from the picture with tears slowly gathering in her eyes as she thought, 'Rhaenys is alive. Rhaenys is alive…' She looked back down at the picture and thought, 'look, Elia, your daughter is alive.'

Ashara nodded her head as she moved the picture to one side. She wiped her eyes with her fingers before she started to take in the contents of the other papers in front of her.

"There's going to be a cover story you'll need to remember," the Colonel said as Ashara looked up, "as you know, Rhea is still too young to understand the truth of what happened to her and her family, and we're doing everything we can to protect her until she's old enough to understand."

Ashara nodded her head.

"So, when she's seven, we'll ease her into the truth," Daniel said, "with Prince Doran and Prince Oberyn's cooperation of course."

"And that is if she does not remember me," Ashara said, to which the others nodded their heads, "what if she does remember?"

"Then we will have to begin easing her into what happened to her and her family," the Colonel said as Daniel leaned forward.

"And if she does remember, then we'll have to be very careful in what how we reveal the truth," Daniel explained, "she's already traumatised as it is. One small mistake, and she'll… I don't know how she'll take to learning that her parents and brother were killed in an uprising."

Ashara sighed. She knew telling Rhaenys the truth would be hard and while she would love for the little girl to recognize who she was… Ashara realized it would be better if Rhaenys did not remember her. At least not yet. AS they continued the briefing, Ashara would go on to learn the horrific extent of Rhaenys' injuries and how she was rescued and brought another off-world base.

"Now," Colonel Dixon said as they got to another sheet of paper that had images of objects Ashara could not identify, "we've already stated that Rhaenys… or rather Rhea… has a severe form of memory loss. She cannot remember her own name, and history. To others on our world, she doesn't remember the locations and names of places or things that ordinary people on our word would recognize."

"But suffering from memory loss cannot be said the same for you," Daniel said as Ashara tilted her head with a quizzical look on her face, "your file states that you're a close friend of Rhaenys' family from a nation that is located North to ours. In fact, you will be from the same city as her family."

"This place known as Toronto," Ashara stated what she remembered after going through the sheets of paper in the folder that established an identity for her. After the Colonel and Daniel nodded their heads in agreement, the former spoke while leaning forward and placing his arms on the table.

"My wife knows you are from another world, she knows that Rhea is from another world and the truth about who she is, but my sons do not know about…" the Colonel waved his arms around the room before saying, "all this. At least not until later this year. But for now, we need to show you some of our basic technology so that you don't get surprised or…"

"Flustered," Ashara said nodding her head in understanding.

"Yes," Daniel said, "you will be remaining on Earth for a while so I'm sure you'll be meeting people… I mean ordinary people who have no idea of what we do for a living."

Ashara wondered about that statement. 'Why hide something like this?' She mentally told herself that it was a question for later. She looked down at the image of an object with what looked like four wheels before saying, "what do we start with?"

Maester Aemon; the Wall. At the same time.

Maester Aemon, the Maester assigned to Castle Black by the Citadel, was only just informed of a raven scroll sent directly to the Lord Commander's chambers by the Citadel. Being blind, it was his steward who led the ancient Targaryen to the office of the Lord Commander. After he arrived, the old man was brought to a chair and gently helped to sit down. Once he was seated, Aemon thanked his steward and asked him to give them some privacy.

"I suspect the scroll received by the Lord Commander is grave," Aemon said looking over his shoulder and towards the young boy, "close the door behind you, dear boy." Aemon heard the boy's footsteps on the hard floor before the soft 'thuds' turned to the sound of a 'crunch' when the boy's feet landed on the snow outside the Lord Commander's chambers. It was then he knew that the boy had stepped outside before the door was gently closed. Turning his head back towards the scent of ale and the sound of a tankard being placed on the table in front of him, Aemon spoke, "Lord Commander, what news?"

It was Lord Commander Mormont who read the message to Aemon. And every word he heard had Aemon losing feeling in his body until he felt completely numb. Rhaegar was dead, Elia was dead, Aegon was dead, and Rhaenys was dead, the Queen was dead, and the Prince escaped with the new-born princess.

"That is all the message says," Lord Commander Mormont said as Aemon hung his head, the one arm on the Lord Commander's table was trembling while his hands rolled into fists at the thought of what happened to his family. Rhaegar was killed on the Trident… Aemon was angry at his death, but it was a war. He would feel the loss of his great-great-nephew but he reminded himself again that his death was as a result of a war. But it was the deaths of Elia and her children that angered him more than anything. They did not participate in any great battle and they could have been taken as hostages by the new Crown… instead they were slaughtered out of spite. He knew it had to be because of spite.

And the knowledge that there were two more escaping to Essos did not ease the pain. Aemon whispered, "they will never be able to return." After the Lord Commander finished reading the scroll once more, Aemon slumped back into the chair and closed his eyes. Three hundred years of Targaryen rule came crashing down with only him, a boy, and a baby the survivors. Aemon knew that, despite the immense loss he felt, he needed to push himself to move on.

'Rhaegar, what have the prophecies wrought?' Aemon thought to himself before opening his eyes to what he knew in his heart would be the concerned expression on the Lord Commander's face, "I would very much like to lie down, Lord Commander." He then stood up of his chair with legs trembling, "if I may be excused."

"Of course," the Lord Commander said. Aemon could hear the Lord Commander's chair screeching backwards followed by thundering footsteps that strode past him. He heard the door open, which was then quickly accompanied by a chill from the weather outside. Aemon could tell it was about to snow once again, the falling white powder would add to the snow already gathered from throughout the night.

Quietly, Aemon walked out while being held by his steward. He felt himself pass the Lord Commander standing at the entryway while feeling a throbbing pain in his chest. Even though he was supposed to give up all titles and lands as a Maester, Aemon was still human. He still felt for his family.

And he worried for the future.

Ashara, The Phoenix.

Time passed so quickly while Ashara was learning the basics of Earth from the sight of a car, to a radio, to an example of an airplane – she was most awed and feared by this, to think that hundreds of people were stuffed together into a metallic tube flying through the air. There were more pictures she had taken a look at while Daniel and the Colonel answered most of the questions she had.

It would be about an hour later that here was a knock on the door to her room. Ashara looked up from the picture of a Christmas tree before she looked up and said, "come." The door then opened to reveal a woman with blonde hair tied behind her into a pony-tail.

She stepped into the room while the Colonel turned around and said, "Lieutenant?"

"Sirs," she then turned to Ashara, "ma'am, we're about to come out of hyperspace."

Daniel then looked at his watch before saying, "wow, that was really fast."

The Colonel shrugged while Ashara joked that he must have enjoyed showing her the important aspects of Earth. She then looked over at the young uniformed woman and said, "thank you." The Lieutenant nodded her head before she turned and walked out of the room. Ashara saw the Colonel then get up off the chair, as did Daniel. Ashara then stood up as the two of them walked around the table while motioning towards the window.

"You may want to see this," Daniel said just as Ashara reached the window. It would be a second later that the hyperspace tunnel vanished and the Phoenix found itself in normal space. Ashara eyes however were locked onto the orb on the other side of the window. She could see blue oceans like her own world, continents like her own world, and clouds covering many parts of the planet below… just like her own world.

'But this is a world where they managed to do all this around me,' she thought to herself, 'a world where Rhaenys is alive.'

TBC.