I know, now, that you were a comfort to him after my mother passed.
[ something she never would have understood, or sought to, when she was younger. then, she had hated both of them — alicent, for securing her father’s affections, and viserys, for stealing her dearest friend away from her.
but the response she earns now is as definitive as it’s likely intended, and rhaenyra doesn’t attempt to press the subject further — especially since the words read closer to a dismissal, in her mind, over what they’d shared. ]
no subject
[ something she never would have understood, or sought to, when she was younger. then, she had hated both of them — alicent, for securing her father’s affections, and viserys, for stealing her dearest friend away from her.
but the response she earns now is as definitive as it’s likely intended, and rhaenyra doesn’t attempt to press the subject further — especially since the words read closer to a dismissal, in her mind, over what they’d shared. ]
We are agreed, then.