Is that not just an accord? That is no different from a manipulation. You find use and value in a joining is more worthy than desire for its own sake.
[ the inculcation of the faith of the seven runs deep in aemond, do not doubt it even if he says otherwise. he was raised in it, steeped in it from when he was still in his mother's womb; he could no more escape its reach than he could pretend to be anything but a targaryen.
every fight against his mother's faith is a conscious one, but it is both religious bias and hatred for women that raised him. ]
You have my trust. You ask me to give more of it to you. You want me to ask for it from you.
[ he understands. but at the same time, he doesn't. which is why it's perhaps very telling when he says; ]
You do do not just ask for these things, Laughlin.
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Is that not just an accord? That is no different from a manipulation. You find use and value in a joining is more worthy than desire for its own sake.
[ the inculcation of the faith of the seven runs deep in aemond, do not doubt it even if he says otherwise. he was raised in it, steeped in it from when he was still in his mother's womb; he could no more escape its reach than he could pretend to be anything but a targaryen.
every fight against his mother's faith is a conscious one, but it is both religious bias and hatred for women that raised him. ]
You have my trust. You ask me to give more of it to you. You want me to ask for it from you.
[ he understands. but at the same time, he doesn't. which is why it's perhaps very telling when he says; ]
You do do not just ask for these things, Laughlin.