Dame Aylin: You ought to have revealed this plot before. What if a hair on darling Isobel's head had been harmed?
I adore every word that comes out of this woman's mouth and her dialogue is ever a goldmine, but this is a particular favourite.
Which, of course, makes the other occasion she uses this phrasing even more heartbreaking.
Dame Aylin: You stood to gain from my undoing. I know your reasons, fetid though they are. But Isobel... ...Isobel deserves to live. Please - do not harm a hair on her blessèd head.
Aylin acts so calm and understanding about being sold into imprisonment and being used as an immortality battery for some bastard again. But she also seems terrified here. She doesn't even threaten you with righteous vengeance a tiny bit, and instead is entirely focused on keeping Isobel safe. She straight up begs you to leave Isobel out of it, in fact her first request is that you don't tell Isobel what happened at all - because of course Isobel will try to go save her. It guts me, especially as it treads into the kind of self-sacrificing that I can't see Isobel being anything but livid over.
(If Isobel isn't alive for the betrayal she will just tell you she pities your lack of honour and give you a classic Aylin promise of how she'll kill you upon your next inevitable meeting.)