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Wings and Flames by duskandstarlight
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
11 Apr 2021
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Summary
So, Nesta did not leave to find her own bed. She stayed in Cassian’s arms with his wing drawn over them in a canopy of safety. Had woken the next morning to find him gone, but when she felt herself start to slip, she clung on to the ledge she had just been tossed over. Dug her nails into rock and dirt and crawled her way back over the precipice. She read his note until she knew it off by heart—he’d return from his state visit to the Winter Court in three days. Heard the way he had written her name, the ink a scrawl but somehow a caress—a divine prayer: Nesta, Nesta, Nesta.
She waited. Waited for seventy-two awful hours where the housekeeper Masak watched her with worried eyes. Seventy-two awful hours where she ran up the damn mountain each morning until she couldn’t take it anymore. Nesta helped out at the widows camps. Continued to teach some of the orphans how to read. Slid into a hot bath to soothe her aching muscles. Read her own book by the fire.
Slept in Cassian’s bed each night, tucked up in his scent of pine and musk and fresh air.
Waited.
___The third instalment in the Habits universe. Cassian has returned from the Winter Court and Nesta is in Illyria waiting for him. Nessian NSFW.
Series
- Part 4 of Habits