"Just Rhaenyra, and only for the turn or two of a moon, about a year ago. I didn't see much of her, though she was here in Thorne. She did not seem like a madwoman, though, or cruel. Alicent Hightower was here longer, but she was just a young girl. Not yet twenty. Wedded to the king long enough to be a mother, though."
The Targaryen who had been here had been the wrong one, not the one he so desperately needs to win over. But for all that, she had seemed a reasonable lady.
The rest of the conversation is more complicated. If Father has been in a dungeon, then he doesn't know what Joffrey will do to him. He doesn't know that his life will end with such treachery, and so soon.
"In the Red Keep," he says, faintly, grimly. "I don't know if I had taken my vows yet, when that happened, but I must have. I could not march south with Robb to aid you. That was -- I wanted nothing more than to go."
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The Targaryen who had been here had been the wrong one, not the one he so desperately needs to win over. But for all that, she had seemed a reasonable lady.
The rest of the conversation is more complicated. If Father has been in a dungeon, then he doesn't know what Joffrey will do to him. He doesn't know that his life will end with such treachery, and so soon.
"In the Red Keep," he says, faintly, grimly. "I don't know if I had taken my vows yet, when that happened, but I must have. I could not march south with Robb to aid you. That was -- I wanted nothing more than to go."