[ there’s the hurt of such comfort having been died and ache of being given it now, as though it were this simple, this easy, the entire time. why deny her? it did not make her or aemond or aegon stronger, to go without comfort and tenderness.
alicent digs her nails into the soft skin of her forearm. punishing. grounding. in the midst of a lightness that threatens to carry her away from this place — into the fantasy of another, kinder life.
not for the first time, koby’s power awes her, a variant on the capacity for prophecy her daughter possesses. wonders contained in human flesh. and burdens, too. despite her self-inflicted wounds, she reaches for it, hungry as she’s ever been, and feels it slip through her fingers when koby retreats. ]
Of course, Koby. You know where to find me, if I can ever repay your kindnesses.
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alicent digs her nails into the soft skin of her forearm. punishing. grounding. in the midst of a lightness that threatens to carry her away from this place — into the fantasy of another, kinder life.
not for the first time, koby’s power awes her, a variant on the capacity for prophecy her daughter possesses. wonders contained in human flesh. and burdens, too. despite her self-inflicted wounds, she reaches for it, hungry as she’s ever been, and feels it slip through her fingers when koby retreats. ]
Of course, Koby.
You know where to find me, if I can ever repay your kindnesses.