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February 15 - February 18, 2021
The cold of the gaps between stars, the cold of a world before light.
She knew she was going into the Cauldron. Knew she would lose this fight.
Not Cassian, broken and bleeding on the floor. The warrior was still trying to rise on trembling arms. To reach her.
It was a kiss of venom, a death so permanent that every inch of her roared in defiance.
In the beginning And in the end There was Darkness And nothing more
Immortality was not a serene youth. It was fire.
Clipped, precise footsteps sounded from the other side of the door. Each more pissed off than the last.
Cassian felt as if he’d loosed an arrow at a sleeping firedrake.
Him. She would do it again, if forced to. And knowing that … She couldn’t bear that truth, either.
“Glad to see you woke up ready to play, Nesta.”
But that was why Rhys was High Lord, and Cassian his blade.
“For you, I have no strategies.”
“Your power is a song, and one I’ve waited a very, very long time to hear, Nesta.”
The thoughts still waited like wolves to swarm her. To rip her apart.
Silver fire burned within. Nothing Fae looked out through them.
Stars were born and died in his eyes.
Power lay in her hand. Death gripped her by the other.
He knew those were a fool’s words, knew he offered up too much.
A few stars blinked into existence in Rhys’s eyes. Azriel muttered a prayer.
“Everyone deserves happiness. The road there isn’t easy. It is long, and hard, and often traveled utterly blind.
She’d never heard such music. Like a spell, a dream given form.
He had done all of this for her. Had found a way for her to have music—always.
“You are good, Cassian. And you are brave, and brilliant, and kind. I could kill anyone who has ever made you feel less than that
“You are everything I have never been, and will never be good enough for.
“From the moment I met you, I wanted you more than reason.
From the moment I saw you in my house, you were all I could think about. And it terrified me.
Nesta saw all the words in his eyes, though. The same ones she knew lay in her own.
Cassian’s mouth met hers, and the world ceased to exist.
The kiss was punishing and exalting, thorough and frenzied, a claiming and a yielding.
There was only this moment, this thing shared between them, and it lasted for an eternity. Time was of no consequence. Time had always stood still around him, around them.
Her mate. Her love. Her friend. The light within her chest brightened to a radiant sun.
