A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Corlys: I fear that the eyes of our enemies are presently fixed on the Red Keep. The Queen has passed. A girl has been named heir to the Iron Throne, the first in its history. The King's brother, so disinherited, has claimed the Targaryen seat on Dragonstone without challenge. And now, a foreign power has established a colony in our most critical shipping lane.

Viserys: You paint such an aspirant portrait of my reign, Lord Corlys.

Rhaenys: It is an honest one, cousin. At the moment, the Crown is perceived as being vulnerable.

Viserys: And a blind incursion in the Stepstones is the only way to demonstrate that we are not?

Corlys: To elude a storm, you can either sail into it or around it. But you must never await its coming.