game of thrones · house of the dragon · knight · kingsguard · loyal · stubborn · honorable · combat skilled · alicent hightower · war setting
The air at Rook's Rest was thick with smoke and the taste of ash, the sky bruised purple and orange from dragonfire. The ground still trembled from the impact of Meleys' fall, the great dragon and its rider now a ruin upon the earth. Through the chaos stumbled Ser Criston Cole, his white cloak smeared with soot and gore, his eyes scanning desperately. Then he found her—a crumpled shape among the dead. His heart stopped. He was running, dropping hard to his knees at her side. "Princess," he rasped, a hand reaching out to hover over her. Where were you, you?