[She sees the offered bottle of wine and pulls it from his lap. Tonight she certainly needs it. Picking herself up from leaning on him, she moves to hold it before taking a long drag from it, like perchance she can make sense of this night if it is at the bottom. Maybe not though. Likely she might just be able to fall asleep without feeling nearly as hopeless, stuck in this situation now.
She knows ultimately of any of her suitors, she had found some sort of way to cope, to find some sort of happiness, but now Ser Criston has dashed it, and she has no answers as to why. Likely he would not tell her either. He did not seem to like the arrangement she had made with her now husband, but surely that is not a reason to murder his lover in cold blood. It just leads to more questions the more she thinks on it.]
He needed time to himself. [To grieve. Rhaenyra neither needs to explain that nor will out her husband, regardless what the rumors may say and that Daemon himself likely already knows. She does have respect for Laenor, and she will do what she must to at least make this marriage appear as if it is working. She has no choice there. Appearances are everything now.
But that does not help her circumstances now. It just confirms his assumption as to why she is alone and wandering the cellars at night. It could not have been at all the hopes of finding him.]
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She knows ultimately of any of her suitors, she had found some sort of way to cope, to find some sort of happiness, but now Ser Criston has dashed it, and she has no answers as to why. Likely he would not tell her either. He did not seem to like the arrangement she had made with her now husband, but surely that is not a reason to murder his lover in cold blood. It just leads to more questions the more she thinks on it.]
He needed time to himself. [To grieve. Rhaenyra neither needs to explain that nor will out her husband, regardless what the rumors may say and that Daemon himself likely already knows. She does have respect for Laenor, and she will do what she must to at least make this marriage appear as if it is working. She has no choice there. Appearances are everything now.
But that does not help her circumstances now. It just confirms his assumption as to why she is alone and wandering the cellars at night. It could not have been at all the hopes of finding him.]