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1. The Truth in the Glass by saucytortellini

   Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   13 Sep 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Azriel (A Court of Thorns and Roses)/Original Female Character(s)
   • Azriel (A Court of Thorns and Roses)
   • Aurora Bennett (Original Character)
   • Rhysand (A Court of Thorns and Roses)
   • Cassian (A Court of Thorns and Roses)
   • Elain Archeron
   • Lucien Vanserra
   • Feyre Archeron
   • Nesta Archeron
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Interdimensional Travel
   • Magical Artifacts
   • Mating Bond
   • Slow Burn
   • Azriel-centric (A Court of Thorns and Roses)
   • POV Azriel (A Court of Thorns and Roses)
   • POV First Person
   • Morally Grey Azriel
   • Spymaster Azriel (A Court of Thorns and Roses)
   • Voyeurism
   • Stalking
   • Invasion of Privacy
   • Breaking and Entering
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • fae in the modern world
   • Chicago (City)
   • Humor
   • Original Female Character(s) - Freeform
   • threatening furniture with a butter knife
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Child Abuse
   • Implied/Referenced Suicide
   • Smut

   Summary

   Azriel is sent east to investigate rumors of enchanted weapons. He returns with a dismantled army, a ledger of traitors, and an antique mirror that shows only the truth.

   For three weeks, he refuses to ask it anything he cannot verify. Then, after five hundred years of silence from the Cauldron, he asks one pathetic question:

   Show me my mate.

   The mirror shows him Aurora Bennett—a mortal woman in Chicago, armed with a butter knife, losing a war against a bookshelf, and living in a world where Azriel exists only in books.

   Watching her should have been enough.

   It isn’t.

   Series

   • Part 1 of The Truth in the Glass Universe

   Language:

   English

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   132,653

   Chapters:

   39/39

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