You are not blind, Rhaenyra. It ill suits you to pretend you do not see my mother's fondness for you remains.
[ a sharp and painful point of contention between him and the woman who has given him life. mother to mother, daughter to daughter, friend to friend. what else has rhaenyra claimed for herself? what does it serve her to play at humility now? ]
I am a prince of the realm before I am her son. Just as you are a princess before you are anything else, and we are dragonriders above all.
no subject
[ a sharp and painful point of contention between him and the woman who has given him life. mother to mother, daughter to daughter, friend to friend. what else has rhaenyra claimed for herself? what does it serve her to play at humility now? ]
I am a prince of the realm before I am her son. Just as you are a princess before you are anything else, and we are dragonriders above all.
We answer to duty first, as we should.