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[provoke]

My sympathies, Rhaenyra, for your losses.

[perzo]

I would have expected more in the way of celebration, not condolence.

[provoke]

We are as remains one House. Jacaerys and Daemon stood for your honour and our name, I have respect for it.

You are welcome to refuse it, sister.

[perzo]

It is not refusal. Merely surprise.

There are those who may have thought Daemon's challenge reckless, but I believe he had the right of it in naming my attacker.

[provoke]

He fought well, and honourably.

[ it's as best as any compliment will go. after all, daemon lost — that had been more surprising than anything this game has ever done so far. ]

Mother will be in her prayers, if you would join her.

[perzo]

Do you guard her, even now?

[ she asks in part because their numbers are lower than they have ever been, and alicent had been vocal in naming several, as well as lending support to other accusations. ]

[provoke]

I can keep my post outside her quarters.

[ much as he would hate to leave his mother alone with rhaenyra, he can put his mother's desires and interests over his own sometimes. and even now, it's selfishness that motivates him in great parts; he doesn't want to see his sister's grief. ]

[perzo]

[ she could remark on how alicent has unexpectedly become a great comfort to her in these times, but perhaps she doesn't need to. ]

Strange, how in these times we are not our own greatest enemies.

[provoke]

How could we be? As I've been reminded often, the Iron Throne means little to nothing among those who reside here. It means even less to our hosts.

You will see her? My mother?

[perzo]

No. Yet their game could have created a convenient opportunity for vengeance.

I will. Is she still at prayer?

[provoke]

She is. I'll make it known you intend to visit, so that she might prepare to receive you.

I will not harm you, mandia. You are free to visit as you like, for now.

[perzo]

Yet the decision to see me stay or go will remain in your mother's power.

Or do you no longer heed her words, as any son ought?

[provoke]

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.

We answer to duty first, as we should.

[perzo]

Better for her that it did not.

[ she will concede that much, just as she will concede the existence of it, since the conversation has turned to that subject. but even now, she is reluctant to linger on the topic. ]

However you may choose to rule as regent is your prerogative, but do not confuse personal grievance for duty.

[provoke]

[ personal grievance. and who was it who confused grievance for duty, in the face of a truth made plain to all who could see and hear? ]

Do not start this with me now. I intend to keep the peace between us, but you have no allowance to what patience remains with me. That has long been forfeit.

Let us be our own ways. It's been a long few days.