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Because it is you, Aemond, and you are dearer to me than others. And that outweighs the shame of any slight.

Indeed, you are dearer to me than much I have known, in this life. I do not think I have made that clear to you before.

[ had she not cradled him and touched his scar, palm covering the wound to soothe a long-held ache? a different thing entirely than saying the words her boys long to hear, she knows it. ]

I shall look forward to meeting him properly, then.

[ dubious, when he displayed such cruelty, but perhaps he is like her aemond — and good to those he cares for most. ]

[provoke]

I'll make the introduction. He is not so terrible as he seems.

[ his friend, one at odds with his others, and even among allies. he can only hope his mother would consider him with slightly more grace, or tolerance.

as for the other parts of alicent's replies to him— ]

I've never doubted that you cared, Mother. I understand we have things we cannot say even if we want to.

You are a mother of dragons. Your blood does not weaken me, it never has.

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[ it is, perhaps, the kindest thing aemond could say to her — akin to helaena and alia uttering, i forgive you. a key difference, still, in that he does not believe the fault lies with her, or that the poison drips through her bloodline to him and his siblings. ]

Of course not. You are fire and blood, trēsy. You always will be, even in this place.

[ the hightower green only makes him sharper, smarter like his grandsire. or so she hopes. ]

Thank you, Aemond.
Will you sup with me tonight?

[ one last dinner, just the two of them, before their family of two becomes four again. ]

🎀 done!

[provoke]

[ she doesn't have to ask. she could command him and he would heed, he would heel, protests aside. that she asks — is it for fondness or for temperance that she does it?

aemond knows what he prefers. ]

Muña. I'll be with you.

[ he's even dress for the occasion. ]