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[sapphyre]

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~ryvers

[sapphyre]

( continued from )

To teach me your ways, why? What do you have to gain?

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[ryvers]

Would you accept being told simply to trust me?

♥

[sapphyre]

With all your knowing, do you not already have an answer?

[ Trust her to drown him in the God's Eye, maybe. Considering this conversation started with a threat. ]

[ryvers]

( Sorry, Aemond, but when it comes to drowning in the Gods Eye you kinda got that covered without her input— )

Believe it or not, I've found that you Targaryens can still surprise me every now and then.

[sapphyre]

Say I agree, we meet, and I listen. Would you tell me then?

[ If she wasn't so mysterious and mystical, he might be inclined to resist. Alas, meeting her midway might be as good as he's given anyone. ]

[ryvers]

I would.

Meeting with me, listening to the water — it would show me that you are ready to begin.

[sapphyre]

On the morrow, mayhaps.

[ Can't appear too eager, now. ]

Did you teach such ways to my uncle during his stay?

[ryvers]

I did. It took a long time for him to understand the truth of what I helped him see.

My role in his story is ended, now. My role in yours has only just begun.

[sapphyre]

A role, is it now? So grandeur a calling for one bastard-born.

[ Is this merely a common trait among House Strong? One has to wonder.. ]

[ryvers]

Do you imagine that being born within wedlock has some impact on your character? Makes you somehow better than those who are not?

Or do you have the wisdom to see the term “bastard” for what it truly is: a legal way to prevent further headaches for men in power.

[sapphyre]

Two things can be true: a bastard's blood is no different than a trueborn's and such a standing without acknowledgement or claim can lay impact to one's character.

It is not the legitimacy of their birth that makes fault, but perhaps there is a desire more for something to prove.

[ryvers]

And is that how you see me?

[sapphyre]

I think at the very least you mislike when your integrity is brought into question.

[ryvers]

I should have grown used to it by now. Powerful men have made a favoured pastime of questioning the integrity of the women around them — the bastard witches most of all.

[sapphyre]

I cannot imagine my uncle trusted you so blindly either.

[ryvers]

I did tell you it took him a long time to see it, just as I have told you that these things cannot be rushed.

It you who demands expedience, my prince, but the more you hurry the less you will trust.

[sapphyre]

So you say.

We shall see if your way, your role, is worth what you promise.