Fics like Sweetest Things Turn Sourest by Their Deeds

'Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church, it shows What’s good, and doth no good. If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others’ action; Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by a faction. If potentates reply, Give potentates the lie.' After two years in Oldtown, Ser Aethan Velaryon returns home, only to find all is not as it seems—his brother’s marriage to Princess Rhaenyra is a sham, and his father's decisions have his family teetering on the edge of mutiny. When his wife gives birth to a silver-haired son, Aethan realises what’s truly at stake. Lady Lynesse Hightower followed her husband back to Driftmark, and is displeased by what she finds. As Otto Hightower’s daughter, she has always had ambitions, and now with nephews in the line of succession and a son whose silver hair gives the lie to a princess’s deception, Lynesse is ready to realise them. But court is a treacherous place, where southron lords breed their conspiracies and honour weighs a man down. Can Aethan and Lynesse elevate their kin or will they fail at the great game?

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