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Meleys and Sunfyre meet in the skies above Rook’s Rest, tooth and flame, and it’s quickly apparent that the older dragon and rider have the advantage. When Vhagar appears, the king let’s out a cry of joy. When Aemond approaches and says “Dracarys” and a huge gout of flame erupts from the dragon, Aegon’s relief turns to horror. Both Sunfyre and Meleys are engulfed in flame, but the golden dragon bears the brunt of it and dragon and rider topple from the sky, crashing into the earth below. Cole watches in horror, spurring his horse toward his fallen king. Rhaenys flies away, but some kind of madness takes hold of her and she turns back to the fight, commanding her dragon to attack. Once again, the great hoary beast Vhagar and the far smaller Meleys grapple in the sky and once again, Rhaenys escapes largely unscathed. But Aemond decides to go in for the kill, ambushing her as she makes her way from the battle. The larger dragon locks his teeth around the smaller dragon’s neck and then Meleys is falling, and Rhaenys is falling. Only Aemond emerges still on dragonback, on the oldest living dragon, the monster that Queen Visenya—sister-wife of Aegon the Conqueror—once rode into battle, whose breath is said to be so hot that it can melt a knight’s armor. The episode ends before we can say if Aegon or Rhaenys survived, but it’s not looking good for either one.
