In both cases, our enemies were unknown to us. I'd much rather know who seeks to do harm to me.
[ a pause from her end, and rhaenyra briefly lifts a hand to her temple, pressing against an ache that threatens to emerge. ]
We appear to prefer having the privilege of threatening one another ourselves, rather than leaving it to any others.
[ she hasn't addressed alicent's role in throwing daemon down the stairs, breaking his arm, but it's the closest she's come to alluding to it now. they're not content to leave one another's fate to anyone else when they can wield control over it. perhaps it will remain so, while they are trapped here, but was it not so from the beginning, when they found themselves on opposing sides? ]
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[ a pause from her end, and rhaenyra briefly lifts a hand to her temple, pressing against an ache that threatens to emerge. ]
We appear to prefer having the privilege of threatening one another ourselves, rather than leaving it to any others.
[ she hasn't addressed alicent's role in throwing daemon down the stairs, breaking his arm, but it's the closest she's come to alluding to it now. they're not content to leave one another's fate to anyone else when they can wield control over it. perhaps it will remain so, while they are trapped here, but was it not so from the beginning, when they found themselves on opposing sides? ]