A Casa Do Dragao-: 1-9 1-- Temporada - Episodio 9...

Her father, Ser Otto Hightower, the Hand of the King, saw only opportunity. “The king is dead,” he announced to the gathered lords. “Long live .”

Meanwhile, the search for Aegon descended into farce. The young prince—a drunkard, a lecher, a boy who preferred the fighting pits to the throne—was found hiding in a crawlspace beneath the Dragonpit, reeking of wine and fear.

From that moment, the Green Council was forged in silence and steel. While the men plotted to find and crown the wayward Prince Aegon, Alicent fought a different war. She slipped through the secret passages of Maegor’s Holdfast, her lantern a single flame in the dark. She found Rhaenys Targaryen, the Queen Who Never Was, imprisoned in her chambers. A Casa do Dragao- 1-9 1-- Temporada - Episodio 9...

Rhaenys saw it: not a queen, but a mother. The same look Rhaenyra would have. The same terror. The same love.

In the darkness of her chambers, she opened the locket around her neck. Inside was not her husband’s face. It was a pressed flower from the godswood. A memory of a girl reading history to a friend under a weirwood tree. Her father, Ser Otto Hightower, the Hand of

A shiver ran through the room. Lord Beesbury, old and loyal to Rhaenyra, protested. His voice cracked with outrage. “Princess Rhaenyra is the heir!”

Rhaenys looked at her with cold, weary eyes. “You have already lit the fire, Alicent. You are simply too close to feel the heat.” The young prince—a drunkard, a lecher, a boy

“What would you have me do?” she whispered to the ghost of Rhaenyra—the friend she had lost, the enemy she had made.