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Wildflower: Pre-White Mustang

Summary:

Elain Archeron is new to Lunathion, and she has no idea what to do with herself. Barely staving off a mental breakdown, reprieve comes in the form of Ruhn Danaan and Tharion Ketos and a box of chicken tenders.

Notes:

You do not need to have read White Mustang to understand this, but I would recommend reading it after reading this.

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VELARIS OBSERVER

 

RUHN DANAAN, THARION KETOS SPOTTED OUTSIDE ELAIN ARCHERON’S HOUSE IN LUNATHION

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ELAIN ARCHERON SPILLS THE DETAILS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE DANAAN-ARCHERON-KETOS FRIENDSHIP TO SURIEL

 

 

 

BEFORE

 

Her apartment was a miserable mess. Boxes unpacked, stacked on top of each other, opened and lingering takeout boxes cluttered the kitchen, clothes strewn over the plastic-wrapped furniture...what the hell was she thinking? Elain Archeron clearly didn't know how to live on her own, without one of her sisters micromanaging things into order for her. She dropped into a crouch in the middle of her foyer, hands clutching at her hair. She made the move from Velaris to Lunathion to prove to them all that she didn't need anyone to do things for her—Elain Archeron was self sufficient. Not.

 

Her phone buzzed with incessant messages from her sisters, probably, maybe even Azriel. She wanted nothing to do with that mess, not yet, not until the trio of Velarian ‘superstars’ figured out their fucked up, borderline incestuous relationship. Elain shuddered at the thought of her nearly getting involved. Of how involved Nesta was, it was all too much to deal with.

 

Her doorbell began to ring. Elain groaned loudly, looking down at herself. She wore a ratty old grey t-shirt over shorts, something she’d clearly slept and worked in. She was gross and not at all in the mood for visitors. Still, she trudged to the door and yanked it open.

 

“Elain!” Tharion Ketos threw his hands in the air, grinning at her. “Welcome to Lunathion!” Next to him, a repentant Ruhn Danaan gave her a smile befitting a former royal, “Sorry, Lainey, but he wanted to visit too bad. We brought chicken tenders!”

 

This would have been fine—had it not been her second time meeting them.

 

Still, Elain smiled and laughed, welcoming them inside. They found themselves on her balcony, watching over buzzing, living Lunathion as they munched on the tenders. Elain was breaking like, twenty of her diet rules but she couldn’t give less of a fuck in that moment. Ruhn sat on her left, while Tharion was draped on the couch to her right.

 

They didn’t say much.

 

“You know,” Tharion said suddenly. “I think paps caught us outside.”

 

Elain flung a pillow at his head at the same time that Ruhn lunged for his phone.

 

LIVE ON THE SURIEL

 

“So, yeah,” Elain grinned at Suriel. “That’s how we became friends.”

 

Suriel and the audience laughed, the former placing their head in their hands. “I’m sorry,” Suriel chuckled. “But you became friends over a borderline scandal? Everyone thought the three of you were a threesome!”

 

Elain shrugged, giving the camera a charming look, “You know what they say, the truest of friends emerge at the strangest of times.”

 

Ruhn and Tharion were gonna take the absolute piss out of her for that.

 

 

VELARIS OBSERVER

 

2022 ARCHIVE:

 

ELAIN ARCHERON GETS INTO THREESOME WITH RUHN DANAAN AND THARION KETOS?

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WATCH NESTA ARCHERON CHASE THARION KETOS WITH WHAT APPEARS TO BE A KNIFE: RUHN DANAAN TRIES TO STOP HER, ELAIN ARCHERON LAUGHS, BRYCE QUINLAN JOINS

 

 

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