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kairora wedding !
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WHEN SHE FIRST LAYS EYES ON HER, it feels like seeing colour for the first time, like up until this point, her life has been black & white, but now there are pinks and oranges and blues and greens shining brighter than ever before. and the breath in kaia’s lungs is stolen from her as she sees aurora’s smile. she has to remind herself to breathe, she’s so in awe of aurora.
and she thinks that the unseelie queen was aptly named because, looking at her, kaia feels the same way she does whenever she watches the sunrise over the hills behind her castle. she thought no beauty could ever match that of a sunrise, and she was both wrong and right because the unseelie queen is a sunrise, and kaia had never seen, nor will ever see, something as beautiful as the woman standing before her, again. and she can’t help but wonder if her title, dawn hailed was a hidden prophecy, foretelling of this moment as she sees the woman who’s dawn brought to life.
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SKY, kaia called her, for her pure white coat and striking blue eyes.
and she should have known. she should have known the moment she say aurora, who was named for the dawn, who looked like dawn come to life, would be the master of a horse with a golden - coloured mane, a horse so beautiful that she almost doesn’t look real. how was there any question that this horse, was created for aurora, who also is so beautiful she almost doesn’t look real?
but the doubt was also justified. not because of kaia’s freaking out over the legend that says that sky’s rider would turn out to be kaia’s own mate. no, the doubt was justified because never in the history of the kingdoms has an unseelie been able to ride a pegasus, let alone be the master of one. pegasus were seelie creatures, through and through, so this was unprecedented.
but aurora is sky’s master. sky spead golden wings for her.
and kaia supposes that that means things are changing. not just politically, but spiritually.
Shield // aurora
THE ATTACK ON THE SEELIE CASTLE is like nothing kaia’s ever seen in her life.
dark faes by the dozens — seelies, unseelies, those dangerous unaligned fae — flooded every floor of castle, there was nowhere to run to escape them. the only option they had was to fight back, and fighting back they were. the royal seelie guard went after them with everything they had, and even the servants took up arms to protect their queen and beloved princesses.
and kaia desperately wanted to be out there, among the fight, defending her home. she believes with her whole heart that any queen that wouldn’t proudly fight beside her knights is no queen at all. but kaia must, above all else, protect fiona and ailsa. they are her sisters, her charges. and they’re currently huddled behind her as the three of them and aurora take refuge in a secret room.
but the secret room that was supposed to be protected by magick turned out to be not so secret and not so protected when all of a sudden, an entire wall came crashing down. kaia dove over the twins, shielding them both from the fallen rubble and who knows what else with her body.
❛ there! ❜ one of the hooded attackers shouted, pointing a menacing looking dagger at kaia. ❛ the seelie bitch! that’s the one we’re here for! ❜ and kaia’s eyes go wide as she freezes in her spot on the floor, looking from the one who spoke to the wrong end of a warlock’s staff.
and it happens so fast. the warlock yells an incantation, black magick shoots from his staff. but before it can hit kaia, aurora’s dove in front of her, taking the blast herself. and kaia screams. and when she screams, the earth shakes beneath them with the power of it; it knocks the attackers off of their feet. and she’d later learn that the only ones who withstood the power of her scream were seelie fae, and with the numbers turned in the knights favour, they were able to clean house.
but none of that mattered to kaia, as she pulls aurora’s head into her lap. ❛ no, no, no. ❜
❛ — kaia, she’s still breathing! ❜ she doesn’t know when the twins appeared at her side, but they’re there now, ailsa with her ear against aurora’s barely rising and falling chest. and before she can ask how that’s possible, that blast was enough to take down a dragon, ailsa’s, the brilliant thing, is already explaining, ❛ it’s because she’s unseelie. and it was unseelie magick. it didn’t hit her as hard as it would’ve you. she saved your life, kai. but… she’s barely hanging on. ❜
❛ there must be something we can do! fiona, go find the elder healer! ❜
❛ wait, no! ❜ ailsa stops them, again there with the answer. ❛ i read — oh, c’mon, i know this! i read that… yes! it was an old legend. it said that the tears of a seelie queen, shed with love, can heal literally any wound from any creature — kaia, you can save her. ❜
tears? that’ll be easy enough, they’re already spilling over. but shed with love? does… does she love aurora? oh, she truly doesn’t know, but as she leans over her, face a mere breath away, she blinks stray tears onto aurora’s skin and hopes that ailsa’s legend, and her own feelings, don’t fail.
↱ // aurora
lost together !
KAIA GLANCES NERVOUSLY AT SKY, the horse that the unseelie queen sits upon, an uneasy feeling in her stomach. she insisted that aurora choose another horse, and while aurora, herself, seemed fine with that idea at first, sky had insisted and somehow transfixed the queen. now, she rides her as if she was made for her, while kaia trots along beside them on storm, a horse who was made for her. and sky, his mate, was created for kaia’s mate.
she didn’t now if she was more nervous that sky would suddenly throw aurora, or that she sits with the information that, if what they told her was true and aurora was sky’s rightful master, then that meant that she was meant to someday be kaia… what? wife? soulmate?
oh, she feels ill!
and it certainly doesn’t help that the two of them are hopelessly lost in, ironically enough, the forest of lost and forgotten things. ❛ aurora, it is my worst fear to insult you, but do you believe your parents sent us on this mission in the hopes that we’d become just another couple lost and forgotten things in this forest? — i hate to think the worst of anyone, but it feels awfully suspect. ❜
of course it is! a mission that only the two of them could go on to retrieve a long lost fae peace symbol in the forest that so many fae have fallen victims of before them? there’s hardly any way that this was pure coincidence. and they must be so pleased with themselves. how kaia dreads to think of the unseelies taking over one of her castles with — oh no! fiona and ailsa are still there!
❛ oh, we must get home. ❜ who knows how many days its been? the forest twists time, you could be inside for a day, but six years could have passed outside the tree line.
in her panic, she’d almost completely forgotten about the other thing with sky and aurora and sky being storms mate and storm being kaia’s horse and sky’s master supposedly being kaia’s mate, but she remembers it all now because… ❛ we need to fly, aurora. if we go above the forest, we’ll be able to see our way out. ❜ but pegusi could only fly for their true masters. so, storm opened his great, grey wings without kaia even needing to ask. and she glances at aurora, just as nervous as she’d started. ❛ okay. all you must do it tell sky to open her wings. simply ask her. ❜
now came the real test.
☾ // aurora
found shirtless !
KAIA IS GOOD AT A GREAT MANY THINGS. but tying up a lace corset behind her back is not one of them. there’s a reason queens have handmaidens! where are they all?
eventually, she gets so frustrated, she rips the corset off and tosses it across the room.
right at the exact moment her door is being opened and aurora steps through, receiving a corset to the face. ❛ oh my! aurora! ❜ and kaia’s so embarrassed for — unintentionally — throwing her corset at the unseelie queen that she completely forgets, briefly, that she’s naked from the waist up.
she only remembers when she catches sight of herself in the mirror, and she barks out a laugh, covering her face with her hands. luckily, seelie’s are quite open and embracing of the naked form, so she feels no lick of shame. however, unseelie’s a little more tightly - wound, and she realizes aurora’s likely very uncomfortable. so, she covers herself with her hands for the other’s sake.
❛ — you wouldn’t happen to know how to tie a corset, would you? all my maids seem to have disappeared. ❜ she says breezily, arching a perfectly - groomed brow.
♕ // aurora
bend the knee !
❛ AURORA — ❜ kaia shakes her head, an unpleasant feeling stirring in her stomach.
aurora does not belong beneath her.
so, kaia falls onto her own knees in front of her, reaching out and taking the unseelie queen’s hands while offering her a gentle smile. ❛ aurora, you are the one person in any realm that is truly my equal. we are equals. neither of us ever need bow to the other. ❜ she says, and she never really realized how true those words were until right now. ❛ we were created as equals, as beautiful compliments of one another. we are very much like two halves of the same whole. ❜
two sides of the same coin. the greatest queens both of their courts have ever seen. put in place now, come to rule at the same, perfect time for the purpose of uniting their kingdoms and bringing peace to their realm. it was designed so elegantly to have them be, have them exist at the same time because no other seelie and unseelie queen could ever come together as they have.
they were created to be one another’s equal, to be one another’s other half.
❤ // aurora
a kiss !
SHE’S SO SHOCKED BY THE KISS, that, at first, all she does is stand there, eyes still open, hands hanging numbly by her sides. what’s happening? is all kaia can think, over and over.
but… aurora’s lips are so warm and welcoming against her own, and she feels as if she’s being pushed towards her, as if she’s been being pushed towards her since before either of them were born. like this is right. no, it feels more than right. it feels like their destinies unfolding in a kiss. and somewhere, the gods are rejoicing as their carefully plotted scheme has come to its climax.
and who is kaia to deny the gods their long - awaited crescendo?
so, she brings her hands up to cup aurora’s face gently, finally returning the kiss.