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[provoke]

Then let me take the burden. I am your son.

[unapparent]

You cannot remove me from this game as you did from your council.

We are guests in this manor and must play by its rules.

[provoke]

[ he will not lash out. he won't cut her any more than he already has. ]

And what are the rules, Mother? That we cater to their every whim? Be laid bare to accusations and death for entertainment?

[unapparent]

That we win.

[provoke]

And the cost? You alone cannot pay it.

[unapparent]

That isn’t my intent.

I trust your word. Trust me in mine.

i'm so sorry

[provoke]

[ he can't do this right now. everything is falling apart even when he tries to keep it all together. he doesn't reply until an hour later, and it's only with a curt four words: ]

I'll make myself scarce.

😔

[unapparent]

[ it hurts more than she would like to admit, to be dismissed and distrusted by him again. she trades on the affection and faith earned in her time here, risking all for one who would disregard her — who will not even protect her from a marriage to another brute or hear her counsel. not for the first time, she thinks of rhaenys’ parting words.

you toil in service of men. you desire not to be free but to make a window in the wall of your prison.

it matters not. she will do what she must. ]