1. Beric Dondarrion:
the wall BlackhavenCopy !req
2. are unscalable vassalstone.Copy !req
3. And the castle is surrounded
by a deep, dry moat.Copy !req
4. It is well fortified against
any future Dornish incursions.Copy !req
5. And though my seat
may be lesser in size,Copy !req
6. it is situated most pleasingly.Copy !req
7. The view across
the Marches is inspiring,Copy !req
8. so said Queen Alysanne herselfCopy !req
9. when she honored
my father and I—Copy !req
10. And tell me,
Lord Dondarrion,Copy !req
11. did you think
my great-grandmother
as beautiful as they say?Copy !req
12. This was half
a century ago, Princess.Copy !req
13. Yes, it was.Copy !req
14. That was unseemly, Princess.Copy !req
15. The man is older
than my father.Copy !req
16. It's unseemly for him
to put himself forwardCopy !req
17. as a contender for my hand.Copy !req
18. Next!Copy !req
19. And now a child.Copy !req
20. Boremund Baratheon:
The Blackwoods are
an ancient houseCopy !req
21. with a formidable army.Copy !req
22. In the Riverlands,
they once ruled as kings.Copy !req
23. The blood of the First Men
still flows in their veins.Copy !req
24. Go on.Copy !req
25. My Princess...Copy !req
26. ours is a bond that
has long endured,Copy !req
27. since Lucas Blackwood,
the grandsire of my grandsire,Copy !req
28. aided the Dragon
in his war of conquest—Copy !req
29. Aye, the Blackwoods
truly turned the tide
on that one.Copy !req
30. Coursed with the blood
of the First Men,Copy !req
31. our history is deeply
rooted in this land,Copy !req
32. which your house
has made its home.Copy !req
33. If chosen as your match, Princess...Copy !req
34. your days shall be easyCopy !req
35. and nights safe
under my protection.Copy !req
36. "Protection"?
The Princess has a dragon,
you dumb cunt.Copy !req
37. Bracken!Copy !req
38. I could learn
to like that one.Copy !req
39. Ugh, let us have the nextCopy !req
40. so we may go to supper.Copy !req
41. - Craven.
- Ooh!Copy !req
42. We're leaving.Copy !req
43. - Sheathe that steel, you twats!Copy !req
44. Send word to the harbor
and have Captain Oswin
ready the ship.Copy !req
45. Princess,
we're due in Bitterbridge
in three days' time.Copy !req
46. I would happily
row myself back
to King's LandingCopy !req
47. if it brought an end
to this ridiculous pageant.Copy !req
48. Don't look, Princess.Copy !req
49. We should make landfall
inside the hour, Princess.Copy !req
50. How do you think
he will take it?Copy !req
51. Do you speak of how you
rejected every suitorCopy !req
52. His Grace put before you,
or how you abruptly
ended the tourCopy !req
53. with two months remaining?Copy !req
54. Take cover!Copy !req
55. Princess!Copy !req
56. You all right? Are you?Copy !req
57. - Fetch the maester!
- I'm fine.Copy !req
58. It's Daemon.Copy !req
59. - Add it to the chair.Copy !req
60. You wear a crown.Copy !req
61. Do you also
call yourself "King"?Copy !req
62. Once we smashed
the Triarchy,Copy !req
63. they named me
"King of the Narrow Sea."Copy !req
64. But I know that there
is only one true king,
Your Grace.Copy !req
65. My crown
and the Stepstones...
are yours.Copy !req
66. Well, where is Lord Corlys?Copy !req
67. He sailed home to Driftmark.Copy !req
68. - Who holds the Stepstones?
- The tides...Copy !req
69. the crabs, and 2,000
dead Triarchy corsairs,Copy !req
70. staked to the sand to warn
those who might follow.Copy !req
71. Rise.Copy !req
72. The realm owes you
a great debt, brother.Copy !req
73. Come.Copy !req
74. This is our chance...Copy !req
75. Daemon, he would
venture off, abroad,Copy !req
76. winning tournaments...Copy !req
77. No, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no.Copy !req
78. I will not revisit
this debate.Copy !req
79. You were always
mother's favorite.Copy !req
80. No, it's no great mystery.Copy !req
81. You were.Copy !req
82. Our mother,
she had no regardCopy !req
83. for custom or tradition, rules.Copy !req
84. And I, sadly,
was no great warrior.Copy !req
85. Congratulations
on your victory.Copy !req
86. Thank you, Princess.Copy !req
87. Perhaps Prince Daemon
would care for a tour
of the gallery?Copy !req
88. He hasn't yet seen
the new tapestriesCopy !req
89. - gifted to you by
Norvos and Qohor.
- Oh, oh.Copy !req
90. Would you like to see
the tapestries?Copy !req
91. He has no interest
in such things.Copy !req
92. I'd like to see them.Copy !req
93. Oh, well, then you should
not deprive yourself.Copy !req
94. I shall enjoy them alone.Copy !req
95. King Viserys:
More wine.Copy !req
96. As I said,
you were the favorite.Copy !req
97. No, you were.
You were. I insist.Copy !req
98. I surmise the tour
did not go well.Copy !req
99. I endured it
for as long as I could.Copy !req
100. To have every
young knight and lordCopy !req
101. in the Seven Kingdoms
fawning over you...Copy !req
102. What misery.Copy !req
103. It is rare for girls
in this realm to get
a choice between two suitors,Copy !req
104. no less two score of them.Copy !req
105. Those men and boys
don't fawn over me.Copy !req
106. They only want my name
and my Valyrian blood
for their offspring.Copy !req
107. I think it's rather romantic.Copy !req
108. How romantic it must be
to get imprisoned in a castleCopy !req
109. and made
to squeeze out heirs.Copy !req
110. Sorry.Copy !req
111. How angry is he?Copy !req
112. The King went through
great effort to arrange
your tour.Copy !req
113. He is... frustrated.Copy !req
114. But I am glad you are home.Copy !req
115. I find I have...
few friends lately.Copy !req
116. I like to believe I'm still
the Lady Alicent, but...Copy !req
117. all anyone sees when
they look at me now is
"The Queen."Copy !req
118. I've missed you, too.Copy !req
119. So...Copy !req
120. what do you want?Copy !req
121. Only the comforts of home.Copy !req
122. I had not thought you
particularly comfortable
in this home.Copy !req
123. Though I do suppose
you seem changed
by your adventures.Copy !req
124. More mature, perhaps.Copy !req
125. You've matured yourself
these last four years, Princess.Copy !req
126. You'll get used
to the attention.Copy !req
127. The attention I can endure.Copy !req
128. It's the rest
I could do without.Copy !req
129. My father seems
content to sell me offCopy !req
130. to whichever lord
has the biggest castle.Copy !req
131. There are worse things
to be sold for.Copy !req
132. Oh...Copy !req
133. Such a lonely prospect.Copy !req
134. Tyland Lannister:
The Stepstones were meant
to be won for the realm,Copy !req
135. but over the past few days,
it seems we have tradedCopy !req
136. a crabfeeder for a seasnake.Copy !req
137. This is clearly a rebuke
for passing over Lady Laena
for Queen Alicent.Copy !req
138. Years have passed
since the business
with his daughter.Copy !req
139. Certainly, he cannot
still be wroth?Copy !req
140. The Sea Snake is
an over-proud man,
to be sure, Your Grace.Copy !req
141. That pride has been injured.Copy !req
142. Perhaps we can
salve the wound?Copy !req
143. I fear Lord Corlys's pride
is the least of our worries.Copy !req
144. I don't wish to cause
you further distress,Copy !req
145. Your Grace, but my brother
has sent disturbing word
from Oldtown.Copy !req
146. Lord Corlys is said to have
engaged in negotiationsCopy !req
147. with the Sealord of Braavos.Copy !req
148. He plans to wed
his daughter Laena
to the Sealord's son.Copy !req
149. If House Velaryon
entered into an allianceCopy !req
150. with the Free Cities...Copy !req
151. then...Copy !req
152. we would have to seek
our own marriage pact.Copy !req
153. - Good night, Ser Criston.
- Sleep well, Princess.Copy !req
154. Whoa!Copy !req
155. Where are we going?Copy !req
156. - Fuck off, boy.Copy !req
157. He called me boy.Copy !req
158. Do you wish to know
your death, child?Copy !req
159. Let me take that.Copy !req
160. Leave us, all of you.Copy !req
161. You have a far kinder
touch than they do.Copy !req
162. Thank you, husband.Copy !req
163. And now we come to the matter
of the great Iron Chair...Copy !req
164. and whose bum it might bear.Copy !req
165. Our good King...Copy !req
166. names his daughter,Copy !req
167. a girl, his heir.Copy !req
168. But then to him, a babe is born.Copy !req
169. - A son!Copy !req
170. - To which heir might
the chair bear?Copy !req
171. Who will it be?Copy !req
172. The brother?
The daughter?Copy !req
173. Or the little
princeling of three?Copy !req
174. Rhaenyra...
the Realm's Delight,Copy !req
175. a girl so young and so slight...Copy !req
176. loved by all of her people,Copy !req
177. but would she make
a powerful queen,Copy !req
178. - or would she be feeble?
- Feeble!Copy !req
179. Though Aegon, the babe Prince,Copy !req
180. might long for a claim,Copy !req
181. he has two things
Rhaenyra cannot:Copy !req
182. a conqueror's name...Copy !req
183. and a cock.Copy !req
184. Lies, slander!Copy !req
185. Boo!Copy !req
186. Jest if you will,Copy !req
187. but many of the smallfolk
are like to believeCopy !req
188. that, as a male,
Aegon should be the heir.Copy !req
189. Mm. Their wants
are of no consequence.Copy !req
190. They're of great consequenceCopy !req
191. if you expect
to rule them one day.Copy !req
192. For one night,
I wish to be freeCopy !req
193. of the burdens
of my inheritance.Copy !req
194. Four coppers, street rat.Copy !req
195. In King's Landing,
we pay for our pleasures.Copy !req
196. - Hey!
- Stop! Boy!Copy !req
197. Wait, I'll find him.Copy !req
198. - And who might you
be running from, now?Copy !req
199. Ser Harwin.Copy !req
200. Princess.Copy !req
201. - Don't.Copy !req
202. You take care, boy.Copy !req
203. Next time,
you might not be so lucky.Copy !req
204. Enjoyed that, did you?Copy !req
205. - Who knows when
I'll next taste freedom?Copy !req
206. - Come.Copy !req
207. Pardon me, Your Grace.Copy !req
208. The King has requested
your presence.Copy !req
209. The hour is quite late.Copy !req
210. Yes, Your Grace.Copy !req
211. What is this place?Copy !req
212. It's where people come
to take what they want.Copy !req
213. Fucking is a pleasure,
you see.Copy !req
214. For the woman as it is the man.Copy !req
215. A marriage is a duty... Yes.Copy !req
216. But that doesn't stop us
from doing what we want.Copy !req
217. From fucking who we want.Copy !req
218. Daemon?Copy !req
219. Princess?Copy !req
220. Princess, are you, are you hurt?Copy !req
221. - I-I should alert
the Lord Commander.
- No.Copy !req
222. - My helmet.Copy !req
223. You finished?Copy !req
224. Thank you.Copy !req
225. Stop.Copy !req
226. Apologies for
the late hour, my Lord.Copy !req
227. - What is it?
- A messenger brings word
from the White Worm.Copy !req
228. Am I your prisoner?Copy !req
229. - As I was once yours?Copy !req
230. I'm your protector,
lucky for you.Copy !req
231. This will cut the fog.Copy !req
232. I don't need protection
from a common whore.Copy !req
233. I am not so common.Copy !req
234. A not-so-common whore then.Copy !req
235. I've left that life behind.Copy !req
236. I learned that skin-tradeCopy !req
237. could only take me
so far in this life.Copy !req
238. You never were
one to stay idle.Copy !req
239. Hard lessons are not
welcomed but suffered.Copy !req
240. Mysar—Copy !req
241. You can pay for the room
on your way out.Copy !req
242. Come.Copy !req
243. What is it?Copy !req
244. I apologize
for the early hour,
Your Grace.Copy !req
245. I have, um...Copy !req
246. discomforting news.Copy !req
247. I thought it best
shared discreetlyCopy !req
248. before the council convenes.Copy !req
249. The Sea Snake.Copy !req
250. I'm afraid it concerns
the Princess, my King.Copy !req
251. Has she been harmed?Copy !req
252. It is no easy thingCopy !req
253. to tell a father of
his daughter's exploits.Copy !req
254. I had considered
saying nothing, but—Copy !req
255. What has she done?Copy !req
256. The Princess was spied
last evening...Copy !req
257. beyond the walls of the Keep...Copy !req
258. in a pleasure house.Copy !req
259. What of it?Copy !req
260. She was carrying on
with her uncle.Copy !req
261. They were engaged in behaviorsCopy !req
262. unbecoming of a maiden...Copy !req
263. of a Princess.Copy !req
264. What behaviors?Copy !req
265. Well, must I say it,
Your Grace?Copy !req
266. You enter my bedchamber,Copy !req
267. accusing my daughter
of something.Copy !req
268. Now speak it... plainly.Copy !req
269. Daemon and Rhaenyra
were seen together...Copy !req
270. in the bowels
of a pleasure den.Copy !req
271. Coupling.Copy !req
272. This is a lie.Copy !req
273. You have been lied to.Copy !req
274. I only wish that
were true, Your Grace.Copy !req
275. Who is responsible
for this gossip?Copy !req
276. Have this rumormonger
brought before me at once.Copy !req
277. And I will take their eyes.Copy !req
278. As your Hand,
I must maintain trusted
sources of information.Copy !req
279. And this one, as yet,
has never led me astray.Copy !req
280. And several of the servants
have now admitted to seeing her,Copy !req
281. the Princess...Copy !req
282. creeping through the gates
from King's Landing,Copy !req
283. disguised as a pageCopy !req
284. during the hour of the owl.Copy !req
285. Are you so sick with ambitionCopy !req
286. that you would have
my daughter stalked?Copy !req
287. Spied upon?Copy !req
288. Awaiting your best chance
to destroy her reputation?Copy !req
289. I have no such intent,
Your Grace.Copy !req
290. You think yourself
a cunning man.Copy !req
291. Your designs are obvious.Copy !req
292. Do you wish to have your blood
on the Iron Throne so badlyCopy !req
293. that you are willing
to destroy mine own?Copy !req
294. Just get out.Copy !req
295. Leave me... at once.Copy !req
296. Your Grace.Copy !req
297. I'm dressed, Annora. Come.Copy !req
298. Princess.Copy !req
299. Come.Copy !req
300. Princess, I-I have
a message from the Queen.Copy !req
301. Queen Alicent:
What happened last night?Copy !req
302. What do you mean?Copy !req
303. My father has made
some worrying allegations
about you.Copy !req
304. Were you with your uncle?Copy !req
305. Oh, I...Copy !req
306. I haven't seen him in years.Copy !req
307. He took me into
the city for some fun.Copy !req
308. Tell me the whole of it, Rhaenyra.Copy !req
309. Your father accused me
of something.Copy !req
310. That I drank wine?Copy !req
311. Left the castle after dark?Copy !req
312. That you fucked Daemon
in a pleasure house.Copy !req
313. This is a vile accusation.Copy !req
314. Is it?Copy !req
315. You Targaryens do
have queer customs.Copy !req
316. - And Daemon certainly
knows no limit.
- Alicent...Copy !req
317. Your Grace, sister,
you must know I would,Copy !req
318. I would never.Copy !req
319. You cannot believe such gossip.Copy !req
320. My father is no gossip.Copy !req
321. Well, certainly
he's been misled.Copy !req
322. He could not have
witnessed such a thing.Copy !req
323. - Why not?
- Because it did not happen.Copy !req
324. - He was told that you—
- Told?Copy !req
325. Who made these claims
to your father?Copy !req
326. I am the Princess. To...Copy !req
327. To question my virtue
is an act of treason.Copy !req
328. - I do not know specifically—
- What, your father
did not tell you?Copy !req
329. He reported it to the King.Copy !req
330. I overheard.Copy !req
331. So you are accusing me
of slanders...Copy !req
332. you overheard?Copy !req
333. I only want to help you, Rhaenyra.Copy !req
334. Okay, we...
we drank in a tavern.Copy !req
335. Several... taverns.Copy !req
336. It was getting late...Copy !req
337. and I asked to go home.Copy !req
338. But Daemon
wished to continue.Copy !req
339. As he was my escort,
I had no real choice.Copy !req
340. "Continue"...Copy !req
341. in a brothel?Copy !req
342. He took me to a show. I...Copy !req
343. I was only a spectator.
I didn't do anything.Copy !req
344. And then Daemon
sank into his cups
and, uh...Copy !req
345. abandoned me for some whore.Copy !req
346. I should've known better.Copy !req
347. So you did not?Copy !req
348. Must I truly refute that?Copy !req
349. Daemon never touched me.Copy !req
350. Okay, I swear this to youCopy !req
351. upon the memory of my mother.Copy !req
352. It was foolish of you to place
yourself in a positionCopy !req
353. where your virtue could
even come into question.Copy !req
354. The King has strived
to find you a good match.Copy !req
355. And so have I.Copy !req
356. If that lord were to think
that you had been...Copy !req
357. sullied...Copy !req
358. - it would ruin everything.
- I know...Copy !req
359. Your Grace.Copy !req
360. I regret it.Copy !req
361. - The King demands
an audience, my Prince.Copy !req
362. Take your fucking
hands off me.Copy !req
363. My daughter.Copy !req
364. - Won't you even deny it?Copy !req
365. I need to understand the chargeCopy !req
366. before I can attempt
to discredit it.Copy !req
367. You defiled her.Copy !req
368. King Viserys:
Still, you say nothing.Copy !req
369. Oh, what does it
matter, brother?Copy !req
370. When we were
Rhaenyra's age,Copy !req
371. we fucked our way through
most of the brothelsCopy !req
372. on the Street of Silk.Copy !req
373. We were young men.Copy !req
374. She is just a girl.Copy !req
375. - Your niece!
- Rhaenyra's a woman-grown.Copy !req
376. Better her first experience
be with me than some whore.Copy !req
377. You fucking—Copy !req
378. You have ruined her!Copy !req
379. What lord will wed her now?
In this condition?Copy !req
380. Who gives a fuck
what some lord thinks?Copy !req
381. You are the dragon.
Your word is truth and law.Copy !req
382. I have spent a lifetime
defending you.Copy !req
383. But your heart is even
blacker than I thought.Copy !req
384. I should disinherit herCopy !req
385. as I already did you
and be done with it.Copy !req
386. Wed her to me.Copy !req
387. When I offered up my crown,
you said I could have anything.Copy !req
388. I want Rhaenyra.
I'll take her as she is,Copy !req
389. and wed her in the tradition
of our house.Copy !req
390. You are already wed.Copy !req
391. That didn't stop
Aegon the Conqueror
from taking a second wife.Copy !req
392. You are no conqueror.Copy !req
393. You are a plague...
sent to destroy me.Copy !req
394. Give me Rhaenyra
to take to wifeCopy !req
395. and we will return
the House of the Dragon
to its proper glory.Copy !req
396. King Viserys:
Of course.Copy !req
397. It's not my daughter
you lust for, is it?Copy !req
398. It's my throne.Copy !req
399. Go back to the Vale, Daemon,Copy !req
400. to your lawful wife.Copy !req
401. Strive to restore whatever
scrap of honor remains in you.Copy !req
402. Or don't.
Matters not to me.Copy !req
403. As long as you are gone
from my sight for good.Copy !req
404. As you wish, brother.Copy !req
405. Have you spoken to her?Copy !req
406. No.Copy !req
407. It is not in Rhaenyra's
nature to be deceitful.Copy !req
408. I cannot say the same
for your brother.Copy !req
409. You believe he lied?Copy !req
410. How often does he
speak the pure truth?Copy !req
411. How does confessing
to such things serve him?Copy !req
412. By reducing you.Copy !req
413. Whatever transpired,
Rhaenyra is not innocent.Copy !req
414. Only because Daemon
tried to corrupt her.Copy !req
415. Daemon and Rhaenyra
share the blood of the dragon.Copy !req
416. They are restless and chaotic.Copy !req
417. She swore to me that
she remains a maiden.Copy !req
418. And I believe her.Copy !req
419. King Viserys:
That daggerCopy !req
420. once belonged
to Aegon the Conqueror.Copy !req
421. It was Aenar's before that.Copy !req
422. And before that...Copy !req
423. well, it is difficult to know.Copy !req
424. Before Aegon's death,
the last of the Valyrian pyromancersCopy !req
425. hid his song in the steel.Copy !req
426. "From my blood...Copy !req
427. "come the Prince
That Was Promised...Copy !req
428. and his will be
the Song of Ice and Fire."Copy !req
429. The responsibility
I have handed to you,Copy !req
430. the burden
of this knowledge...Copy !req
431. it is larger than the throne,
the king.Copy !req
432. It is larger than youCopy !req
433. and your desires.Copy !req
434. Jaehaerys would've
disinherited you.Copy !req
435. For a lie?Copy !req
436. You've yet to ask me
for the truth
of what happened.Copy !req
437. The truth does not
matter, Rhaenyra.Copy !req
438. Only perception.Copy !req
439. You have exposed yourself.Copy !req
440. Now we must both
suffer the consequences.Copy !req
441. Were I born a man,
I could bed whomever I wanted.Copy !req
442. I could father
a dozen bastards,Copy !req
443. and no one in your court
would blink an eye.Copy !req
444. You are right...
but you were born a woman.Copy !req
445. So you'll strip me of my titles
and name Aegon in my stead.Copy !req
446. I would.Copy !req
447. But it is mine to hold
the realm together,Copy !req
448. not sow it
with further division.Copy !req
449. Your courtship is at an end.Copy !req
450. You will wed
Ser Laenor Velaryon,Copy !req
451. and you will do so
without protest.Copy !req
452. The son of the Sea Snake.Copy !req
453. So I can be a remedy
for your political headaches.Copy !req
454. You are my political headache!Copy !req
455. Your wedding
to Ser Laenor VelaryonCopy !req
456. will unite the two
most powerful houses
in the realm.Copy !req
457. With the combined strength
of our shared dragons
and naval fleets,Copy !req
458. no one would dare
to stand against us.Copy !req
459. The House of the DragonCopy !req
460. will stand as one
for a further generation.Copy !req
461. And what will you
do about the vultureCopy !req
462. who perches
upon your throne?Copy !req
463. What vulture?Copy !req
464. Your Hand.Copy !req
465. Otto Hightower
has served two kings
loyally and faithfully.Copy !req
466. He wants Aegon
to be named heir.Copy !req
467. And he will stop at nothing
to see it done.Copy !req
468. Including spying on me
to bring about my ruin.Copy !req
469. You speak of
The Conqueror's visionCopy !req
470. and the need for strength
and unity across the realm.Copy !req
471. But how can that be accomplishedCopy !req
472. with your most trusted adviser
so self-interested?Copy !req
473. Every lord and lady that calls
for an audience with me,Copy !req
474. every man on my small council,Copy !req
475. and all councils past,
has been self-interested.Copy !req
476. - It is unavoidable.
- I disagree.Copy !req
477. I will do my duty as heirCopy !req
478. and wed Ser Laenor.Copy !req
479. But you must first
do yours as king.Copy !req
480. - Your Grace.Copy !req
481. Five days.Copy !req
482. I'm sorry, Your Grace?Copy !req
483. King Viserys:
Though it was some time ago.Copy !req
484. The details...
they fade in memory.Copy !req
485. My father was a hale
and healthy warrior
and dragonriderCopy !req
486. at the peak of his abilities.Copy !req
487. Jaehaerys named
a great royal huntCopy !req
488. to celebrate him being
named the Hand of the King.Copy !req
489. Five days later my...
my father lay dead.Copy !req
490. Tourneys last longer.Copy !req
491. Baelon the Brave,Copy !req
492. rider of Vhagar,Copy !req
493. heir to the Iron Throne...Copy !req
494. dead of a burst belly.Copy !req
495. The gods have a dark wit.Copy !req
496. It was a grim day.Copy !req
497. - I recall it all too well.
- Yeah...Copy !req
498. It was a good day for you.Copy !req
499. Jaehaerys named you Hand
in Baelon's stead.Copy !req
500. That's hardly how
I viewed it, Your Grace.Copy !req
501. It was a duty.Copy !req
502. You served my grandsire
nobly in his final days.Copy !req
503. You are the man that
taught me how to be King.Copy !req
504. - Oh, you honor me, Your Grace.Copy !req
505. Just five days...Copy !req
506. you went from being another man
in Jaehaerys's court,Copy !req
507. to the second most
powerful man in the realm.Copy !req
508. I wonder...Copy !req
509. how long did it take you
to choose yourself
over your King?Copy !req
510. Your Grace?Copy !req
511. I will never recover
from Aemma's death.Copy !req
512. But Alicent...Copy !req
513. she took me through
the worst of my grief.Copy !req
514. She was a calculated distraction.Copy !req
515. I only now realize
how well-calculated it was.Copy !req
516. That is an absurdity.Copy !req
517. The Queen loves you...Copy !req
518. as I know you love her.Copy !req
519. Your interests no longer align
with those of the realm.Copy !req
520. Your judgment has
been compromised.Copy !req
521. A loyal Hand
must tell his kingCopy !req
522. a discomforting truth
from time to time, Your Grace.Copy !req
523. If he doesn't...Copy !req
524. he's failed as a servant.Copy !req
525. You were a faithful
servant, Otto.Copy !req
526. The crown and the realmCopy !req
527. both owe you a debt
that can never be repaid.Copy !req
528. But I can no longer
trust your judgment.Copy !req
529. Come.Copy !req
530. I hope you can forgive
the late hour, Princess.Copy !req
531. I took great care
in its preparation.Copy !req
532. If not brewed properly,
it can either prove ineffectiveCopy !req
533. or else bearCopy !req
534. - unpleasant—
- Brewed properly?Copy !req
535. I'm sorry, what is that?Copy !req
536. A tea, Princess.Copy !req
537. From the King.Copy !req
538. It will rid you of any
unwanted consequences.Copy !req