Aegon speaks, his voice a rasp: “Rhaenyra has Harrenhal. She has the Riverlands. She has the North. And what do I have? A dragon that cannot fly and a brother who smiles while I rot.”
POST-CREDITS SCENE: In the Vale, Rhaena places the cold dragon egg into a brazier. For a long moment, nothing happens. Then a single crack appears. The sound of something breathing—small, wet, alive.
Mysaria steps closer. “Then you must burn the ashes first, Your Grace. There is no throne without terror.”
“The Shepherd preaches in the Flea Bottom. ‘Dragons are demons,’ he cries. And the smallfolk listen. They remember Meleys’s head dragged through the streets. They remember children crushed.” La Casa del Dragon Temporada 2 - Episodio 8
Rhaenyra stares at a painted map. Her fingernails are bitten to the quick. Mysaria enters like a shadow, her voice silk over venom.
Daemon drives Dark Sister through Aemond’s remaining eye and out the back of his skull. Aemond falls. Vhagar, mad with pain and rage, rolls into the sea. Caraxes dives after her.
He sees a young RHAENYRA, not as queen, but as a girl of eight, stitching a dragon on a banner. She looks up and whispers: “You were always the second son. Even in my heart.” Aegon speaks, his voice a rasp: “Rhaenyra has Harrenhal
Rhaenyra looks at the sword. Then at her son.
The Iron Throne has cut another king. AEGON II sits crooked, half his face bandaged, his left arm in a sling. His dragon, Sunfyre, is a ruin of scorched gold scales in the yard. Aemond stands beside him, sapphire eye gleaming, calm as a winter tide.
“And you have never lived at all.”
The High Septon lights a candle before a statue of the Mother. Behind him, Aegon II watches with his one good eye. He is bandaged, broken, but smiling.
Aemond circles once. Twice. Then he smiles.
“The cowards send children,” he whispers to Vhagar. “No matter. Burn them all.” And what do I have
“Then we take King’s Landing. And may the Seven forgive what I become.”