Because of your actions? (Or do you share his madness? It would be rude to ask, but it's the sort of thing that the Targaryens are said to possess as a family trait. Perhaps it comes from too much inbreeding or, in his case, violent outside factors.) Drowning is painful too.

(Winterfell is far from the sea, but there are bodies of water near the castle and sometimes children stray...

Then there is King's Landing where so many men drowned in the Blackwater.)

I think he was sick. (Aerys always struck her as ill. Not quite like Joffrey who clearly saw what he did and still did it.) Blaming a child for such a thing isn't fair. He let his jealousy blind him, perhaps?

I... (Jon Snow.) My mother never treated my bastard half-brother well. I followed her lead. I wish I had been kinder.

(You only get one family. She blushes and her gaze drops.)

It's not hard for me to see something of Cano in you, Lord Maglor.