Sapphires

Princess Elia Martell and Lady Ashara Dayne ☀️ 💫

"What are you doing here?"

"Something stupid. Get behind me." He circled toward her, putting himself between Brienne and the bear.

"You get behind. I have the sword."

Rather than a sympathetic peer, Hyle is an immature, unemployed flop who — to the very end — thinks Brienne in her inexperience can be coerced out of her most deeply held beliefs. It's no wonder that Brienne is more willing to trust a worse man who tries harder to understand her despite it all.

Hyle gleefully volunteers that he wouldn't raise the children Brienne doesn't want to have as abandoned, half-clothed children scamper about. That black comic gem of a proposal allows Brienne to reject the sterile highborn marriage of convenience that Ronnet threw in her face. I would even argue that Hyle exists to be rejected.

She could almost feel his presence then. His strength – melded with hers into one.