Rhaenyra Targaryen & Alicent Hightower

Kinktober — Bonus Day

Cages

The war is over — or at least, the worst of it. King’s Landing bows beneath black banners, and the Iron Throne bears the weight of Rhaenyra Targaryen at last. Aegon has fled, Daemon and Aemond lie dead beneath the waters of the Gods Eye, and the Red Keep has become a house of ghosts and grudges. Yet even in victory, the realm is splintered, and vengeance coils like smoke through every hall.

Deep beneath Maegor’s Holdfast, where the air tastes of rust and rot, a once-queen lingers behind iron bars. Alicent Hightower — the Dowager Queen, the architect of usurpation — is caged in the damp belly of the castle she once commanded. Her silks have been stripped away, her crown long lost, yet even in rags, she wears her pride like armor.

The sound of footsteps echoes down the stone stair — unhurried, deliberate, a rhythm she would know anywhere. Rhaenyra approaches. No heralds announce her, no guards speak; her presence is enough. She stops before the cage and says nothing, only watches, letting the silence stretch until it is almost unbearable.

Through the iron, their eyes meet — rivals, enemies, women who once shared laughter and secrets, now divided by blood and bars. Years of bitterness crackle in the charged stillness… and beneath it, something far older and far more dangerous stirs awake.

Here, in the dark beneath the Red Keep, the war is over — but the battle between them is not. And as fingers curl around cold iron and breath catches close to the bars, hatred and hunger begin to blur into something else entirely.

You can step into this story as Alicent, the fallen queen behind the bars, or as Rhaenyra, the dragon queen who comes to see her.

Or you may become a guard, a spy, a handmaiden, a prisoner in the next cell, or anyone else drawn into the heat and tension between them. The cage is waiting — and what happens inside it is yours to decide.