A/N: More Bloodraven/Shiera goodness. This pairing needs a bigger fanbase. XD
Humans are fascinating, she admits to herself in her hypocrisy as Brynden leaves her chambers. She can feel his lingering shadow on her doorstep, knows his heart is reluctant to let go not just her but anything that reminds him of her. He takes his memories with him but she knows he fears that they too will abandon him one day.
"What then?" he asks with the voice of one who has no hope.
"I can make you immortal, I suppose," she muses. He stares at her forlornly, and she knows that he thinks she still doesn't understand. He doesn't want immortality, not without her. He doesn't want anything but her. And that is the only thing she cannot give him.
The next day, she asks "do you know how a star dies, my love?" He is upset at the question, doesn't want to acknowledge that his star might one day not be there. But the universe is strange and its laws even stranger. He answers with a no, and she tells him.
He doesn't visit her for the next few days.
When he does come, she sees self loathing in his eyes and she takes him into her arms, her silks absorb his tears as he chokes out how he can't stay away from her even after what she has revealed to him. She listens, all night long.
Come morning, he is all cried out and she is out of time. Her silver hair fall on his sleeping face as she gently kisses his eyelids, ready to depart. Her mismatched eyes take in his body, memorising the creases his hands and legs make on the bed silks, drinking in his marked and blemished skin.
Humans are fascinating, she confirms again. But Brynden more than most, He would stay alive to do what she couldn't, and perhaps, through him, a particle of her own being as well. She realizes with a start that she does want immortality, but only through him.
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