"You helped me win the Iron Throne" "And helped me keep the damn thing." "We were meant to rule together." "If your sister had lived would have been bound by blood." "Did you have to bury her in a place like this?" "She should be on a hill somewhere with the sun and the clouds above her." "She was my sister." "This is where she belongs." "She belonged with me" "In my dreams." "I kill him every night." "It's done." "Your grace." "Targaryens are gone." "17 years ago" "You rode off with Robert Baratheon." "You came back an year later with another woman's son." "Is my mother alive?" "Does she know about me?" "Where I am." "Where I am going." "Does she care?" "The next time we see each other" "We'll talk about your mother." "I promise." "No." "You told me once." "Meryl?" "Your Bastard's mother?" "Wylla." "That's it." "She must have been a rare wench to make Lord Eddard Stark forget his honor." "You never told me what she looked like." "Nor will I." "Do you love your Children?" "With all my heart." "Do you love your Children?" "With all my heart." "Not more than I love mine." "And they are all Jaime's." "Thank the gods." "In the rare event that Rob leaves his whores for long enough to stumble drunk into my bed," "I finish him off in other ways." "In the morning he doesn't remember.." "You've always hated him." "In the morning he doesn't remember.." "You've always hated him." "Hated him?" "I worshipped him." "Every girl in the seven Kingdoms dreamed of him" "But he was mine by oath." "And when I finally saw him on our wedding in the Sept of Baelor lean and fierce and black bearded it was the happiest moment of my life." "And that night he crawled on top of me stinking of wine and did what he did literally what he could do" "and whispered in my ear, Lyanna." "Your sister was a corpse and I was a living girl and he loved her more than me." "When the king returns from his hunt," "I'll tell him the truth." "You must be gone by then." "You and your Children." "I will not have their blood on my hands." "Go as far away as you can," "With as many men as you can." "Because wherever you go" "Robert's wrath will follow you." "And what of my wrath, Lord Stark?" "You should've taken the realm for yourself." "Jaime told me about the day King's Landing fell." "He was sitting in the Iron Throne and you made him give it up." "All you needed to do was climb the steps yourself." "Such a sad mistake." "I've made many mistakes in my life, but that wasn't one of them." "Oh, but it was." "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die." "When your brother Rhaegar lead his army at the Battle of the Trident," "Men died for him Because they believed in him." "Because they loved him." "Not because they'd been bought at a slaver's auction." "I fought beside the last dragon on that day, Your Grace." "I bled beside him." "Rhaegar fought Valiantly." "Rhaegar fought Nobly." "And Rhaegar died." "The last time I was in the capital was many years ago." "Another wedding." "My sister Elia and Rhaegar Targaryen, the last Dragon." "My sister loved him." "She bore his Children." "Swaddled them, rocked them, fed them at her own breasts." "Elia wouldn't let the wet nurse touch them." "And beautiful, noble Rhaegar Targaryen left her for another woman." "That started a war, and the war ended right here," "Do you think highly of this boy?" "Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, and a bastard of some Tavern's slut." "Perhaps" "That wasn't Ned Stark's way." "This power in you you resist it and that's your mistake" "Embrace it." "Your aunt Lyanna." "Father never talked about her." "Sometimes I'd find him down here lighting the Candles." "He'd say she was beautiful." "I saw her once." "I was a boy living with your mother's family." "Lord Whent held a great tourney at Harrenhall." "Everyone was there." "The mad king." "Your father." "Roberth Baratheon." "and Lyanna." "She was already promised to Robert." "You can imagine what it was like for me a boy from nowhere," "With nothing to his name, watching these legendary men" "Tilting at the lists." "The last two riders were" "Barristan Selmy and Rhaegar Targaryen." "When Rhaegar won, everyone cheered for the prince." "And there was laughing when he took of his helmet" "And saw that Silver hair." "How handsome he was." "Until he rode right past his wife," "Elia Martell, and all the smiles died." "I've never seen so many people so quiet." "He rode past his wife, and he lay a crown of winter roses in Lyanna's lap." "Blue as frost." "How many tens of thousands had to die because Rhaegar chose your aunt?" "Yes, he chose her and then he kidnapped her and raped her." "I was thinking of all the times your brother made me go with him down from the Red Keep, into the streets of King's Landing." "Why?" "He liked to walk among the people, he liked to sing to them." "He sang to them?" "Yes." "Rhaegar would pick a spot on the Hook or the Street of Seeds and He'd sing." "Just like all the other minstrels." "And what did you do?" "I made sure no one killed him." "And" "I collected the money." "Well he liked to see how much he could make." "He was good?" "He was very good." "Viserys never told you?" "He told me Rhaegar was good at killing people." "Rhaegar never liked killing." "He loved singing." "And what did you do with the money?" "Well" "One time we gave it to the next minstrel down the street." "One time he gave it to an Orphanage in the flea bottom."