#oomf you sent so many good memes it was almost impossible to choose

[boregrief]

@dioica said, ❝ green is the color of earth, of living things, of life. ❞

alicent had been proud of the emeralds and pines and sages she dons, once. they are the colors of her house, a distinct separation from the blacks and reds of house targaryen she was suffocated by in the early years of her marriage. but as of late, the queen dowager finds that she tires of it . . . even so far as to feel a tinge of dread she must swallow in the mornings, when she is dressed. green has become the color of war. bannermen carry a golden dragon on a green field when they ride to battle, while the very same sigil gleams on their helms or breastplates alongside hightower's own. vhagar, the great dragon of war herself, burns green underneath the sun when aemond flies upon her.

her attention settles on the girl curiously, pondering her words like a strange taste on her tongue. this netheera, a young woman from the summer isles who has claimed a dragon in her own right without a dash of valyrian blood -- a revelation that has changed everything, an improbability they could not let go unattended. and now a loyal squire of ser criston. she does not seem to let her mind be impeded by the borders many of their own people have fabricated ( this war is built upon age - old grudges ), and a part of alicent finds she respects that. envies it, even. ❝ it can be that, and many other things, ❞ she assents, gaze dropping to the intertwining of restless fingers for a beat. ❝ it is better associated with those things, i think. i have not seen living green often as of late. ❞