Bowing her head in defeat, Queen Alicent surrendered the keys to the castle, and ordered her knights and men-at-arms to lay down their swords. “The city is yours, princess,” she is reported to have said, “but you will not hold it long. The rats play when the cat is gone, but my son Aemond will return with fire and blood.”
FIRE AND BLOOD by George R.R. Martin
That is insufficient. Aemond has been damaged, permanently, My King. “Good will” cannot make him whole. There is a debt to be paid. I shall have one of her son’s eyes in return. He can choose which eye to keep, a privilege he did not grant my son.
— Queen Alicent Hightower HOUSE OF THE DRAGON «Driftmark»





















