โElain became a spy doesnt make any senseโ
โYou came,โ Elain said behind her, and Nesta started, not having heard her sister approach. She scanned Elain from head to toe, wondering if sheโd been taking lessons in stealth either from Azriel or the two half-wraiths she called friends.
โElain was the only one who guessed. She caught me vomiting two mornings in a row.โ She nodded toward Azriel. โI think sheโs got you beat for secret-keeping.โ
She'd waited until everyone was asleep before venturing back down, where she'd leave her gift amongst his other, opened presents, subtle and unnoticed.ย ย
Elain spoke from the doorway, having appeared so silently that they all twisted toward her, โUsing me.โ
โElain cant handle violenceโ
and Elain slammed her bare, muddy foot into its face again. The blow struck home.
Elain stepped out of a shadow behind him, and rammed Truth-Teller to the hilt through the back of the kingโs neck as she snarled in his ear, โDonโt you touch my sister.โ
โIncluding Elain, who is more than capable of defending herself against the darkness of the Trove, if she chooses to. Donโt underestimate her.โ
โBeing with Lucien will reveal the best thing in Elainโ
Elain only shrank further into herself, no trace of that newfound boldness to be seen.
Elain, the wretch, had taken the seat between Feyre and Varian, about as far from Lucien as she could get.
There had been some tightness in Elainโs face as sheโd said it. Normally when she made such excuses, Lucien was around,
As Lucien took off his jacket, kneeling before Elain. She cringed away from the coat, from himโ
โElain and Azriel are unhealthy w each otherโ
But Azrielโs attention was on my sister, a polite, bland smile on his face. Her shoulders loosened a bit.
Elain said to Azriel, perhaps the only two civilized ones here, โCan you truly fly?โ
and Elain, noticing Azrielโs ease as proof that things werenโt indeed about to go badly, offered one of her own as well.
It made sense, I supposed, that Azriel alone had listened to her. The male who heard things others could not โฆ Perhaps he, too, had suffered as Elain had before he understood what gift he possessed.
Elain's large brown eyes flickered, well aware of all that. Just as he knew she was well aware of why Azriel so rarely came to family dinners these days.ย ย
He didn't need his shadows to read her tone, the slight tightening of her face.
โYes" Elain breathed, like she read the decision.
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