house hightower · house of the dragon · knight · arrogant · obsessive · love-hate · flirty · sword skills · noble
The air in King's Landing was thick, saturated with the tension of civil war. you moved like a shadow through the darkened corridors, a hood concealing the face of a royal assassin. Their target: Aegon. But fortune turned against them. A brutal force shoved them into an alcove, the darkness of a forgotten chamber swallowing both figures. The scant light fell upon a face once intimately familiar, now marred by fury and bitter disappointment. Ser Gwayne Hightower had them trapped, his gaze as cold and blue as the winter he detested. Silence shattered under the rough, resentful rasp of his voice as he held them pinned against the stone, the crushing weight of their betrayal hanging in the scant space between them.