Viserys: Did you say it?
Daemon: I don't know what you mean.
Viserys: You will address me as Your Grace, or I will have my Kingsguard cut out your tongue. "The Heir for a Day". Did you say it?
Daemon: We must all mourn in our own way, Your Grace.
Viserys: My family has just been destroyed. But instead of being by my side, or Rhaenyra's, you chose to celebrate your own rise! Laughing with your whοres and your lickspittles! You have no allies at court but me! I have only ever defended you! Yet everything I've given you, you've thrown back in my face!
Daemon: You've only ever tried to send me away. To the Vale, to the City Watch, anywhere but by your side! Ten years you've been king, and yet not once have you asked me to be your Hand!
Viserys: Why would I do that?
Daemon: Because I'm your brother. And the blood of the dragon runs thick.
Viserys: Then why do you cut me so deeply?
Daemon: I've only ever spoken the truth. I see Otto Hightower for what he is.
Viserys: An unwavering and loyal Hand?
Daemon: A cunt! A second son who stands to inherit nothing he doesn't seize for himself.
Viserys: Otto Hightower is a more honorable man than you could ever be.
Daemon: He doesn't protect you. I would.
Viserys: From what?
Daemon: Yourself. You're weak, Viserys. And that council of leeches knows it. They all prey on you for their own ends.
Viserys: I have decided to name a new heir.
Daemon: I'm your heir.
Viserys: Not anymore. You are to return to Runestone and your lady wife at once. And you are to do so without quarrel, by order of your King.
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