A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Aemond: Why do you care whether I am alone? Whether I live or die? I'm a kinslayer, Alys. My own brother is dead by my hand. I have been damned for my trespasses and cursed to suffer. You should abandon me. Lest you bring mine own fate upon yourself.

Alys: When the dragon Balerion burned this place, it was to end Lord Harren's line. But his line was not so easily ended. A child, a boy, lived on. Burned terribly, but alive. His mother would have given anything to save him. She summoned maesters from across the Seven Kingdoms, but to no avail. So, she turned to older cures. She uncovered incantations more ancient than the land. She treated with things that lived in the forest. But none of it could unmake what dragonfire made. And when the boy was gone, she tried to go with him. And that is when she learned the cost. She discovered then she was cursed to live on, to remain within the bounds of the river kings of old. Cursed for sharing in Harren's avarice. Stripped of her name, her title, her castle. And sentenced to serve every ha'penny lord who came here to rule it.

Aemond: That was a hundred years past.

Alys: It's a long time to be alone.