Grey Skies, Bright Light
It had been a cloudy day when he was first taken. The men who took him were rough, and didn't care for his cries of protests.
He quickly learned what his fate would be when they strapped him to a table, and a learned man approached him with a surgical knife. He didn't know what it meant, not until they dangled his manly parts in front of him.
And after that, his new life began. They trained him to perform various tasks, from fighting to guard duty to doing household tasks. He had to be ready to do anything that was required of him, without complaining.
On his eleventh birthday, he was given a puppy and told to care about it. So he did.
On his twelfth birthday, he was told to kill the puppy. He did that too.
He cried afterward, in private of course.
On his fourteenth birthday, he met his soulmate. She was a skinny girl, but still beautiful, with short black hair and black eyes that were full of life.
And he knew then and there why all of this happened to him. It was so he'd get to meet her. So that he could protect her from those that wished her harm.
Pretty soon, she had proven herself as capable, and their current master treated her as a precious jewel. And in their master's eyes, she might as well have been.
But in his eyes, she was more than that. She was the sun, and he was the earth.
It took two weeks for him to finally gather the courage to speak to her.
"Name?" he asked her in his rough voice "Your name?"
She stared at him with no fear in her eyes. She didn't fear him like she feared the masters, and he was glad it was so for some reason.
"Missandei." she finally said "This one is called Missandei of Naath. How about you?"
"This one has no permanent name." he admitted "This one gets a new name each day."
"Oh." she breathed as the realization came "You are..."
He nodded, unflinchingly.
"Someday, we'll get away." she whispered "That's a promise."
-x-
And a promise that was kept, at that.
They were freed by fire, and the fire gave them new lives.
No longer did they need to fear spending time with one another, or being close to one another, or loving one another.
There was only one thing he feared now. That she would reject him.
"I can't give you a child." he confessed his fears to her one day "I can't give you what you really deserve."
"Doesn't it feel good, though?" she asked him
"It does." he uttered "It feels perfect. Just like you."
"Then don't worry about that." she smiled at him "I am not suited to be a mother anyway. All I want is you."
And that was that. He loved her the way a man without equipment could. He showered her with kisses and ran his fingers across her body, trying to feel her, to know her.
It didn't last.
-x-
She stood atop the tower, looking down at him with love in her eyes.
"If you have any last words, now's the time." the Queen uttered
Not their Queen, though. Theirs was standing beside him, watching it all unfold.
"Dracarys." Missandei said
Her eyes met his, and through that gaze alone she conveyed her true last words.
And he knew what he needed to do.
As the blade met her neck, he turned away, unable to watch the end.
The pull in his heart stopped.
His soulmate was gone, and he would have to live the rest of his life without her.
Still, he would fulfil her last request, the task she entrusted to him in her last moments.
Protect my people.