brynden rivers x shiera seastar
People call him Bloodraven. They spit about him.
Shiera laughs it off. Shiera has never cared, not about how he looks, or what he dreams, or what people say about him. To her he is just Brynden, and that is why he loves her.
“Do you really care what they say about you?” she asks.
I look different too, she had told him when they were young. It was never the same for Shiera though. Shiera is beautiful.
He is a lot of what they say, but he sometimes wonders whether it might have been that way had they not set him aside as being different when he was still a babe.
He knows in his heart it always would have ended this way. He always would have ended this way. He doesn’t need his dreams to tell him that, or the other gifts the gods have given him.
“Do you care what they say about you?” he asks her.
It is a lie, but he lets her have her lie. She’s with him now, and for now that is all that matters.