- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: Fathers have a maddening capacity to at once inspire and incense, don't you think?
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: Did it pain you to have to send your child away?
- [slight pause]
- Queen Alicent Hightower: It was my choice.
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: Why?
- [Alicent sighs and sits down]
- Queen Alicent Hightower: I bore Viserys three Targaryens. But with the last, my last... I wanted him to be a Hightower. In truth, I'm glad I waged that battle, seeing now what came of our other sons. Perhaps sending Daeron away was my truest act of motherhood. Though I do not know now what fate that choice has consigned him.
- Lord Ormund Hightower: So, you swore to her out of fear?
- Lady Sharis Footly: We swore because she is the *Queen*.
- Lord Ormund Hightower: Is she?
- [Ormund rises slowly from his bath]
- Lord Ormund Hightower: Or is she a bitch with a dragon?
- Hugh: I understand that Ser Ulf is to be sent to Tumbleton.
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: He is.
- Hugh: If it pleases Your Grace, I offer to take the watch on Vermithor.
- Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen: Your wife is at Tumbleton, is she not? Ser Ulf has no stake in the matter.
- Hugh: Send me, because I do. I will not tire of watching when one I love is below.
- Alyn of Hull: My Lord Hand, the queen has requested your presence at her small council.
- Lord Corlys 'The Sea Snake' Velaryon: I'm her Hand, not her mouth. Leave the talking to those who relish it.
- Lady Jeyne Arryn: Prince Daemon Targaryen, standing in my hall, a beggar with a tin cup. I never thought I'd live to see such a sight.
- [Daemon tries to persuade Rhaena to leave Sheepstealer]
- Prince Daemon Targaryen: He's not like the others, Rhaena. He is wild; he cannot be trusted.
- Lady Rhaena Targaryen: He is mine! He is a part of me. I have been alone all my life; a Targaryen without a dragon. Disregarded, or-or worse, pitied. Can you yourself say you ever gave me more than a passing thought? Rhaena, the unfortunate; Rhaena, the least among your children.
- Prince Daemon Targaryen: Come back with me, then, to King's Landing.
- Lady Rhaena Targaryen: No.
- Prince Daemon Targaryen: We will... speak to her, together. We will tell her it was a mistake!
- Lady Rhaena Targaryen: How can I ever stand before her again, after what I have done? No, I can never return. I will remain here, alone and in exile. That is my penance.
- Prince Daemon Targaryen: She will hunt you down. Is hunting, now!
- Lady Rhaena Targaryen: Let them grieve me and think me lost to sea. Unless you betray me.
- Prince Daemon Targaryen: You ask me to deceive her? That is betrayal.
- Lady Rhaena Targaryen: I have asked you nothing, Father, in all my life. I ask this one thing of you now.
- [about Borros Baratheon]
- Lord Ormund Hightower: That lackwit sealed a marriage pact between Prince Aemond and one of his horse-faced daughters. And yet, where is he now? Send another raven that he can understand; this one mayhaps with drawings rather than letters.
