What’s Going Down at The Day Court?
So is ACOSF, when Helion comes to the Night Court riding on his pegasus (BDE) to help them ward The Trove. At the end of the meeting, he asks Rhys if he might spend a few hours enjoying and relaxing at the The Moon Place before going back to his court - because he’s in need of quiet and solitude. And Rhys is all like, “Oh? Trouble at Court?
It feels like a throw-away line, right? Like just two High Lords commiserating on the pressures of being a ruler. But I get the sense it’s going to mean something in future books. So, Helion, buddy - what’s going down in The Day Court?
My only thought is that the Inner Circle of the Day Court (assume there is one), might be pressuring him Helion to take a bride, so he can produce an heir.
I get the sense that Helion is like one generation before the, IC. We know that he courted Lucien’s mom before she married Beron, and then had an affair with her after - so I’ve always pegged Helion as being slightly older (a couple hundred years, maybe) than the IC, characters.
I’m think maybe The Day Court is getting anxious that good-times, swinging Helion, hasn’t settled down yet...and doesn’t have an heir. I think they’re nervous that if, something were to happen to Helion - he would be leaving his court with a lot of uncertainty on who the next High Lord of Day would be.
It would be the perfect issue for Helion to be facing down with his Court- because he actually has a heir...he just doesn’t know it. Yet.