[ On Christmas Eve, the manor staff kindly deliver the gifts Alicent prepared for family and friends.
— Inside an ornate hat box, Rhaenyra will find the crown of Viserys Targaryen. — The envelope attached by a gold ribbon bears no name, but smells of Alicent’s perfume.
Dearest Rhaenyra, I have written and discarded several letters now, as I have with all our correspondence. Words seem inadequate, don’t they, for all that we have experienced together and apart.
I requested this when my team won the werewolf game, knowing even then it was not for myself but for you. For even when your father forgot me, he remembered the daughter he loved best. And even when I acted against your interests, I could not forget you.
It is hard to say why I have waited two turns of the moon now to share this with you. We have both been waylaid by our families since arriving, as we will always be. I cannot abandon my sons any more than you can forsake yours.
And yet I am sorry, for the mistakes I have made and harm I have done. I meant it truly and without reservation when I said you would make a fine queen.
I think of you often. And even when I am not thinking of you, I am trying to keep myself from it, which is much the same thing — don’t you think?
🎁 — 24/12.
— Inside an ornate hat box, Rhaenyra will find the crown of Viserys Targaryen.
— The envelope attached by a gold ribbon bears no name, but smells of Alicent’s perfume.