#to end up as consort for the catatonic boy king

[dearlyfetching]

It has never made any sense to me that after everything is said and done, the remaining Hightower faction did not insist upon taking Princess Jaehaera Targaryen into custody. She is the granddaughter of Dowager Queen Alicent Hightower, whose paternal family still remains alive and well. After her father is found dead and her grandmother passed on from Winter Fever, there should've been a vested interest from Lyonel, Martyn, Garmund, or any of Alicent's unnamed brothers aside from the deceased Gwayne to either offer sanctuary in Oldtown or send envoys to King's Landing for Jaehaera's protection. While I understand that the point of the dance is to showcase the horrors of war and harm of factionalism, when one of either side is needlessly removed and prevented from unifying their feuding families as a peaceful solution when other feasible options existed, it leaves me feeling more than a bit frustrated.