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Too Long In The Dark Dark Night by singthestars
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
28 May 2025
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Summary
He's traveling, she realized around three in the afternoon, when phantom hoofbeats seemed to echo in her chest. Coming back from wherever he went.
The knowledge should have been meaningless. She'd spent years training herself not to care about his comings and goings, not to track his presence or absence like some lovesick girl but now, with this unwanted window into his experience, indifference felt impossible.
She could feel his weariness in her own bones, could taste the dust of the road in her mouth. And underneath it all, that persistent ache she was beginning to recognize—not physical pain, but something deeper. The kind of hurt that lived in the soul rather than the body.
Loneliness.
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Elain and Lucien's mating bond enters into the final stages of rejection and Elain realizes that some choices need to be made sooner than later