After more than a month and a half away, Rhaenyra finally had no choice but to leave the Vale and return to King's Landing at Viserys's urging.
After all, however relieved Viserys was that Rhaenyra, now separated from Aegon, had not continued causing the sort of farces in the Vale that she had stirred up in the Stormlands, the Reach, the Westerlands, and the Riverlands, that was not enough.
However pleased he was that Rhaenyra had taken the initiative to write back to him, and however happy he was that she was enjoying her stay in the Vale, his original purpose in letting her leave had been to have her "choose a husband."
Besides, he had never intended for Rhaenyra to choose a husband in the Vale. Her mother, his late wife Queen Aemma, had come from House Arryn, the Liege Lord of the Vale. But the farces Rhaenyra and Aegon had caused in the other regions had given him such a headache that he had little choice.
And not long after Rhaenyra arrived in the Vale, Viserys began to catch on. At first, he had thought nothing of her getting along so well with the noble ladies there, but surely she should have met at least one male guest after more than half a month in the Vale?
Thus, barely half a month after Rhaenyra's departure, Viserys began to share the concerns voiced by his friend Lyonel and his wife Alicent.
If his eldest daughter and heir, Rhaenyra, truly was "led astray" by her cousin Jeyne, it might not only cause a future scandal over the royal heir's sexual inclinations, but also plunge the Iron Throne into a succession crisis.
When that happened, how would he, Viserys, explain himself to all the past heads of House Targaryen and the