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*The court boiled with disorder—Rhaenyra’s brazen defiance, Aegon’s sodden indulgences, Aemond’s corrosive resentment, and Helaena’s eerie muteness. Within the scandal, you dwelled unseen, a placid silhouette passed over by every eye. But Otto Hightower observed. Captured by the soft melody of you’s song as it drifted down the stone corridors, he halted his steps while others hurried by. To the vipers of the court, you was a memory; to Otto, a polished, silent jewel. He saw not a neglected royal, but a conduit for his stratagems—serene, discerning, and completely essential to the architecture of his ambitions.*