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[holyposition]

Always.

Tell me that you did not do this.

[provoke]

[ even here he is doubted. ]

What comfort will it give you? I will speak when the accusation is levied.

[holyposition]

People will think it's you. You have to admit that it looks bad.

Your mother has faced enough loss without an angry mob coming for you too. I'm asking you to help me help you.

[provoke]

What would it benefit me to kill my whore sister and her bastard son when it all leads back to me?

[ he would have made it known it was him, if he had done it. he would make a point of it for all to see. ]

@moondancer

[moondanced]

Hell. Have I reached Tim Loughlin?

[holyposition]

They're dead now, you've outlasted them. There's no need to insult them further.

You'd be settling ingering hostilities from back home, that's what the others will say when they accuse you.

Which I am not doing, to be clear. I'm trying to prevent it.

[holyposition]

Laughlin. :)

But yes. You have. What can I do for you?

[moondanced]

My apologies! I should have checked the spelling a third time.

I don't know if you know my name, but I am Baela Targaryen, daughter of Daemon Targaryen. I am aware my father's reputation sometimes precedes most others...

@hightower

[unapparent]

Are you and yours safe?

[ why should it stop at six? ]

[provoke]

I swore to keep peace. I gave my word several times over on my mother's honour, I have given this promise multiple times when I have not so much as issued threat or challenge — which Jace has done, mind.

If I'd taken their lives I would make it known it was by my hand. To pretend otherwise is craven. I know what it would cost me to break this tenuous peace, Laughlin, I am not an imbecile.

[kobes]

Next to Hawk. Outside the chapel, getting some air, maybe? It's a little fuzzy, your aura bleeds into his a bit.

I know. I definitely know.

Good. Make sure both of you keep that up. I'll make sure Alicent does too.

[holyposition]

That sounds kind of romantic. But you're right, we're out there.

Thanks again, Koby.

[holyposition]

I know it. I've been a close friend of Queen Alicent Hightower, she's filled me in on the...situation.

But rest assured, I'm not interested in seeing any further violence.

[holyposition]

We are. So far. And yours?

Aemond told me to keep you safe. Which I will, of course, but why isn't he?

[moondanced]

Nor am I, despite the eagerness of others at times.

It was Lady Alicent, though, who directed me your way. She said you were a voice among the blue masks she felt I would be safer aligning myself with.

[holyposition]

That's all I need.

Will your uncle believe that? It may be hard not to engage if he trues to pin it on you.

[provoke]

He killed his first wife and then his cousin. Who was my sister's first husband, mind, and his second wife's brother.

Allegedly.

He has several reasons to blame me.

[holyposition]

If she's sent you to me, I'll watch out for you

But not because of these little games. I don't care about "team blue", I care about stopping the violence.

[holyposition]

Would he kill his wife again just to make you look bad?

cw: allegations of grooming, sexual acts with a minor

[provoke]

Before Father made Rhaenyra his living heir — before Father wed my mother — Daemon was first in line to inherit the crown. Father had exiled him for

[ —disgracing his half-sister and taking her maidenhead as a girl, or so it's said. ]

challenging the line of succession more than once.

[moondanced]

I agree entirely. I do not care about the game. If this is truly the game, then it's a sickening one. I would prefer no part in it at all, but I don't think we get the choice.

Unfortunately, I am still newer here. So I don't know as many to trust, hence why Lady Alicent sent me your names for where I can start.

I would like to help in ending the violence.

[unapparent]

That is a relief.

[ a beat. ]

I suppose I am alive and should be grateful for it.

Aemond will be blamed for the deaths of Rhaenyra and her son by his uncle, if not all who have learned of our troubles. I have sent him elsewhere for his own protection.

[ she will not say where, even to Tim. ]

[holyposition]

So he would stand to gain back home if she were gone.

What about Jacaerys?

[provoke]

You've not been told? He has two sons by Rhaenyra, bearing our colours. Pale of hair, pale of skin, purple of eye. Joffrey alone would remain of Rhaenyra's get before Daemon, and Joffrey's six.

[holyposition]

This place has played wicked games with us before, but nothing on this scale.

You trust Lady Alicent? I understand that you are on opposite sides of a conflict back home.