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[perzo]

She says these dangers have nothing to do with those currently among us. That it will be a new threat at the door.

She has told you the same?

[unapparent]

She has.
She warns of cold as well. And hunger.

I believe we should prepare.

[perzo]

You speak as though you have already decided what the plan shall be.

[unapparent]

How much can one plan for the unknown? I suppose we could fetch winter clothes and gather extra blankets from the studies.

What do you make of it?

[perzo]

Some of it is to be expected, with how the weather has turned here.

It is the men your daughter spoke of that concerns me more. Threats that do not lie within any guest, but those we have never seen before.

[unapparent]

I am not certain I prefer that to the game of wolves.

[ she pauses. ]

Do you believe our House could stand together again? If there were a greater threat?

[ when daemon refused to share information with her, even after she saved jacaerys. when they did not seek her killer, as she did theirs. when daemon beats her boy bloody in the name of training.

and she herself has punished him now, though it brought her no peace. rhaenyra loves a man without remorse for his cruelties or respect for her family. alicent cannot help but wonder if she shares his views. ]

[perzo]

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? ]

[unapparent]

[ Alicent huffs a breath, almost a laugh. Mayhaps that is true. A small comfort, when external dangers abound. ]

Indeed.
I shall keep you apprised, should I learn anything of what’s to come.

[ and she will — after homelander reveals the temp v to her, it is rhaenyra and aemond she calls, bringing their family together against what’s to come. ]