“I may have lost an eye, but I gained a dragon”
The festering tension between Rhaenyra and Alicent has unsurprisingly infected the next generation. This achieves a new level of violence when Alicent’s second son, Aemond (Leo Ashton), decides the day of Laena’s funeral is the right moment to claim her suddenly riderless dragon as his own. That doesn’t go over well with Daemon’s daughters or Rhaenyra’s sons—and the ensuing disagreement turns physical, with Rhaenyra’s second-oldest boy, Lucerys, desperately slashing out with a knife. Aemond loses an eye, and everyone freaks out—Alicent tries to rip out one of Lucerys’ eyes as payback—but Aemond, who’s been emboldened by the experience, takes it chillingly well. He may have lost an eye, he reasons, but he gained a big, badass dragon.
