[ It is not merely herself that Rhaenyra worries for these days, particularly in the aftermath of the estate's games, which had seen the loss of several lives apart from her own. Even if Jace had been resurrected right alongside her, she knows what she had faced in the days following — the nightmares, the strangeness of being plunged back into a body that doesn't wholly feel like your own anymore, to say nothing of the physical scars that remain after being dissected.
If her son happens to be haunted similarly, he makes no allusion to it now, and she would know if he were hedging his words in an attempt to spare her more concern. ]
The Great Winter comes by her time, then? [ Rhaenyra has spoken with the Lady Sansa infrequently, enough to glean that the younger woman is many generations descended from Cregan Stark, but to have it confirmed that Aegon's prophecy will come to pass, if not in her own lifetime... Her hands have established a clutch on Jace's, squeezing with insistence. ] Are the Seven Kingdoms prepared for it by then, or caught unawares?
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If her son happens to be haunted similarly, he makes no allusion to it now, and she would know if he were hedging his words in an attempt to spare her more concern. ]
The Great Winter comes by her time, then? [ Rhaenyra has spoken with the Lady Sansa infrequently, enough to glean that the younger woman is many generations descended from Cregan Stark, but to have it confirmed that Aegon's prophecy will come to pass, if not in her own lifetime... Her hands have established a clutch on Jace's, squeezing with insistence. ] Are the Seven Kingdoms prepared for it by then, or caught unawares?