I do not think it — I trust that I will. 'Tis folly to think we'll not needs defend ourselves simply because we are promised safety.
You must understand, Tim. There is a reason why our family settled for a truce with great haste upon my arrival. My uncle is a veteran of many wars. I am as close to an equal challenge that he has here, and why he has no shame in threatening my mother harm over a challenge mine half-sister's own son had issued to me.
I understand. She's told me. I just don't see what good it will do to fight a war of succession in another realm completely. There's no way to win. I'm not saying not to be prepared, just to consider other options. There are other ways to best someone.
That's Jesus Christ, the son of God, where I'm from. He was stripped and tortured, when he died to protect the rest of us from our sins.
I've never heard of a monarchy that demands the one to succeed has to be the last one standing after a massacre.
I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of the situation, but the more likely it is that violence breaks out, the more likely that your mother or someone else I care about gets caught in it. I don't want that to happen.
I promised my peace. I am not so dishonourable that I would kill so wantonly, even if my whore of a half-sister and her child-murdering husband would wish me to. I have ever hewn to my duty loyally as a prince of the realm and they have spat at decency at every turn with bastards and lies.
[ incendiary language time! ]
House Targaryen cannot be split, because our dragons are ever loyal to us until death. The only way you free a dragon of its bond is if its rider dies, Tim. All siblings mine each have our own. And I ride the largest and most powerful of them all.
Do you understand?
[ there is only one way he'll be allowed to live. ]
His wounds needs not be exposed, either. It's grotesque.
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