"You said I killed you — haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!"
I posted this on twitter a couple months ago, but I thought I might as well crosspost onto here. Rhaenicent has quickly become my favorite ship of all time and thinking about how their story ends makes me a little feral.
Refs: this painting by Gerald Moira + Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
the deliberate choice to highlight the vast emptiness of rhaenyra’s bed seconds before she reunites with alicent…even though she has found intimacy with mysaria throughout the season and even though she reconciles with daemon earlier in the episode…..yeah!