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"You did not mean to right? You are sorry, you will not do it again, you love me... is that what you want to say, Aemond?" 

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"Do I not deserve an explanation for this? While I am home fending off Aegon, making sure my good-sister, YOUR sister, does not fall apart, you do this?" 

"It was not meant to happen" 

"I won't be a fool in saying I love you anymore. I will not be a fool to believe when you say it. But this is not an accident! What? You just tripped and fell in between her legs"

"You gave me nothing! No relief, no heirs, no comfort!”

"So you blame me for being an adulterer? Well done Aemond, well done" 

"You were never loyal, do not be a hypocrite" 

"Did you expect me to waste away while you plotted, schemed, pulled away from me? At least I drank the moon tea! At least nobody knew! My name is now dragged through the mud" 

"But I knew! Have you no respect?" 

"You lost my respect the day you called me barren, a useless thing, not even a woman, if I remember correctly" 

"I was drunk" 

"Drunk words and sober thoughts and all those sayings... you betrayed me Aemond, more than you will know" 

"What do you expect?" 

"I expect that woman to stay as far away from here as possible" 

"Cast out my only child?" 

"Are Jaeheara and Jaehearys not enough?... or do you need an army of bastards in this Keep?”

"Better an illegitimate one than no heir at all” 

"You laid with me thrice in the last six moons Aemond! Two of those times you were too tired or spent to get it up" 

"It is not my fault you are as dry as Dorne”

"Maybe if you were Aegon that would never be the issue" 

"You dare-" 

"I do! After all, you have already proven what is the difference between brothers. Everyone will be none the wiser" 

"You are a cunt!" 

"Never worse than the cruel, conniving snake you are!"  

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"I do not even know why you let it become like this... I had hope that you... that soon enough, some part of you would change. That we would become closer" 

"Friends cannot always become lovers"  

"I should have known that when I saw your face at the engagement banquet. How... embarrassed you looked" 

"It was not embarrassment"  

"It felt like it... then every time after it became this distance! This distain!”

"You were tainted!”

"I was a maid" 

"Not by a man! By my family! You were another tool, a way of furthering their ambition! You were no longer mine!”

"So what? This is about control?" 

“This is about having something that was mine! Mine and mine alone and this... this ruined it" 

"So you blame me. This is what this is all about? A grudge set to cause me suffering?”

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"This… This was never my fault Aemond" 

"But I can't help but fault you for it" 

"So that is it?... there is nothing but blame and poison?” 

"No... now there is nothing at all"