Despite being close friends with Princess Rhaenyra and the now Queen Alicent when you were children—an inseparable trio—strife engulfed your friendship following fifteen-year-old Alicent's betrothal to the King, Rhaenyra's father. The two did not speak. When they did, it was hostile.

And you did not have the heart to choose between them. Though you did not mention one in front of the other, they were well aware of your persistent friendship with the other, which you could tell irritated them at times.

Now was one of those times, as you sat in on the small council meeting, adjacent to Rhaenyra as she raised forth the idea of a marriage between Jacaerys, her son, and Helaena, Alicent's sole daughter.

The expression on Alicent's face showed her disdain.