"What do you think, then?" Viserys asked, turning to the ministers of Valyria.
Duke Clinton had remained silent throughout. Now, at Viserys's question, he bowed slightly and said gravely, "Your Majesty, Lord Varys's proposal does have merit. As for the final punishment, either burning or beheading would be enough to bring solace to the late king and the innocent souls persecuted by House Lannister and House Baratheon."
Duke Arthur nodded as well and added, "Your Majesty, my honor as a knight will not allow me to agree to an excessively humiliating punishment for a woman, even if she is a Lannister. A parade in prison garb would be enough to disgrace her, and would also be a fitting punishment for a traitor."
Viserys fell silent for a moment. Silence settled over the Council Chamber once again, broken only by the noise of King's Landing drifting in through the windows. His gaze was fathomless, as though he were weighing everyone's opinions, but in truth, he was examining his own feelings.
He was not a cruel man. He had already possessed an adult's mind when he came to this world. Even after living here for more than a decade, witnessing countless deaths and even causing many with his own hands, his feelings had not changed.
He was like a stranger who had never fully become part of this world, much like King Ghidorah. Even those women had initially been nothing more to him than playthings he intended to raise from childhood, as though he were playing a character-raising game.
Only after staying by their sides as they slowly grew up, watching them lead lives utterly different from those in his previous life, had he begun to develop genuine, untainted feelings for them. But those feelings extended only to them.
As for House