quotes from rhysand, azriel, and cassian // spoilers and nsfw content will be posted across all series // all bat boys have a chance to be feat at random
“I write to you not as a High Lord, but as a male in love with a woman who was once human. … I write to you so one day we might know true peace. So I might one day be able to live in a world where the woman I love may visit her family without fear of hatred ... A better world.”
“It’s real,” Azriel said softly.
Neither laughed or commented on the burning in my eyes. I took another drink to wash away the tightness in my throat & approached them. “Let’s not do this again for another five hundred years,” I said a bit hoarsely
Cassian cast the memory aside as Rhys surveyed Elain, his violet-blue eyes missing nothing. “What happened.”
Elain waved a hand in dismissal before flinging open the veranda doors & striding into the open air.
“Elain,” Rhys said as he & Cassian trailed her into the dying light.
“Pick one,” Rhys whispered in my ear. “A glowworm?”
He nipped at my earlobe. “Smartass.” He steered me back toward the wall of crowns, each wholly different ... “Pick whichever crown you like.”
“I can’t just—take one.”
“You most certainly can. They belong to you.”
The wrappings around my hands were now mere smudges of soot. Cassian’s upraised palms remained before me—ready to take the blow, if I needed to make it. “I’m all right,” he said quietly. Gently.
Azriel mastered himself enough to say,
“Thank you.” I'd never seen his hazel eyes so bright, the hues of green amid the brown and gray like veins of emerald. “This will be invaluable.”
“Prick,” Cassian said, but laughed again.