[They do look alike- the silver-gold hair, the same large and deep purple eyes. But she is young and in bloom, trailing memories of his sisters and daughters behind her, while he nears sixty, and with it the last gasp of his once great hopes to remake the realm anew.

One more chance, that was all he'd hoped for- one bright spark of fire to give his people light, and-]

...The maesters assured us she was carrying a boy. I hadn't thought....

Daenerys. After the Princess of Dorne, of course.

Oh, child. Are you well?