HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 2.08 | "The Queen Who Ever Was"
Your path was already charted without your input, Rhaenyra. Such is the budern of monarchy! However, you had a choice, Rhaenyra. You could have fled to an uncharted territory and created a life of your own.
As a youth, you desired freedom from all of this. Alicent was too afraid to entertain the idea; she was bread in the partriachal system, where choices made were without her consent. Now she is asking you to "come with me...". It is indeed, too late. The weight of the crown is upon you, Rhaenyra; your sense of honor and duty is greater than yourself, as it was with Alicent when she was younger.
We have to embrace life when the opportunity knocks on our door; we must seize it with all our might and with every ounce of will.
Providence is a killer of souls!
