[ he can't help the disbelieving, disparaging laugh that escapes him. ]
You are not so blind to have missed that Rhaenyra's husband is also our uncle. Or that mine own sister and brother are themselves married to one another, or that my cousin Baela is betrothed to our nephew Jacaerys. Would that our father married Rhaenyra to Aegon, Helaena would be my wife, my sister of only two years my senior.
You wish me treat you as family? Should I take you to a whorehouse, then? Have you stripped and made to fuck a woman as old as your mother with your friends watching? Should I barge into your quarters and humiliate you in front of a lover by calling you an animal of base and immoral desires?
Family is grief and offence and torment andββ We rise above each other's faults, accept each other's deviances. A united front, as our upbringing insists upon.
You should be happy for the distance still afforded to you.
cw: child marriages, sexual humiliation
You are not so blind to have missed that Rhaenyra's husband is also our uncle. Or that mine own sister and brother are themselves married to one another, or that my cousin Baela is betrothed to our nephew Jacaerys. Would that our father married Rhaenyra to Aegon, Helaena would be my wife, my sister of only two years my senior.
You wish me treat you as family? Should I take you to a whorehouse, then? Have you stripped and made to fuck a woman as old as your mother with your friends watching? Should I barge into your quarters and humiliate you in front of a lover by calling you an animal of base and immoral desires?
Family is grief and offence and torment andββ We rise above each other's faults, accept each other's deviances. A united front, as our upbringing insists upon.
You should be happy for the distance still afforded to you.