@greenmther // rhaenyra & alicent.
the truth is, rhaenyra doesn't know what to think. their mind reels from alicent's sudden presence, from all she presents rhaenyra with. alicent asks for understanding if not for forgiveness, and despite all the built up emotion, the anticipation and fury and betrayal and grief, rhaenyra can't deny her this. it stuns them into silence for a long moment, so long that it might seem to other that she will not speak, but finally they break the silence, dark gaze seeking alicent's. it feels intimate, to be this close to her again. almost dangerous, as if they're doing something illicit; and according to the rest of their families, they are, just by listening to each other. ❝ i do forgive you, alicent. i would not have done as you have . . . but we have been borne of different circumstances. i cannot hold against you what you have only been doing to survive. ❞