"sister. daughter. infant death."

“You don’t need around you what does not need you anymore.”

[G]rief can afford you a nihilism that actually gives you quite a lot of breadth in the face of danger. I’m not sure that, at the point of departing from Dragonstone, Rhaenyra has any concern for her own safety. I also think that...the personal and the political are so tightly knit, and there’s something about preserving Jace’s memory or making sure that his death has some meaning. I don’t think it’s as conscious as that but, even knowing that if Rhaenyra is successful and she takes the throne, then her name goes down in the history books and so does that of her son. There’s a legacy aspect to her plight that indirectly also is a way of preserving her son.