⟪ hard to make men believe what they haven't seen for themselves, harder still when most witnesses are killed by the walkers or the wights, or both. instead of these answers, though, he calls her strange, and she doesn't laugh – she's never quite learned how to fall into laughter – but she does smile. ⟫

I have been called much and worse.

⟪ worse, too, than the name she carries. ⟫

I am Melisandre, of Asshai by the Shadow. ⟪ then, with an incline of her head – ⟫ And now, I return the question.