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Six times people lusted after Nesta Archeron, and one time someone loved her.
Day 5: Resilience - NESREN
Amren thirsts for the wine only Nesta can drink.
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Amren takes a sip from her glass, thick red liquid obscuring her view of Nesta Archeron across the table.
She's in a foul mood already. This swill is barely worth the swallow. Water-wraith blood, likely, though it's sat too long in the bottle and now stinks of a tide pool. Tastes even worse.
Amren sinks further into her seat, grumbling.
Nesta says something cutting to Cassian and he laughs loudly anyway, immune to the sting of his mate's whip. Or craving it, perhaps, devoted to the lash as he is.
Amren doesn’t hear the words. She’s listening to something else.
I would lowkey love to see how you would do a nestaxamren crackfic...it's absolutely cursed (and very cruel to Nesta tbh) but I still want to see how u would do it.....
You know... I had the idea that Amren would have like a one-sided obsession with Nesta that Nesta doesn't ever reciprocate...
If I was really trying to entertain myself, maybe she'd do awful things in pursuit of her. She'd probably try to kill Cassian is subtle ways and also like taint his name every time Nesta's near. She'd be full on psycho (probably).
In another version... I'd probably have like Nesta being an evil queen type in which Nesta has the upperhand over Amren and Amren would probably be like always trying to kill her which she never gets to succeed at.
But both would have some sort of sick romance.
If I didn't hate Amren (as is my prerogative), I'd probably write an AU where she falls out of the sky in Prythrian past and finds Nesta in this new world and you know... maybe she'd be like the version of that one fae women who like was clever enough to trick the Death Gods, and I'd probably weave that into her tricking Amren too instead of her just being randomly tossed into the prison.
How did I write 9000 words this @nestaarcheronweek ???!
I really enjoyed making this piece. It forced me to be less precious about things, which is new for me. I’m always trying to push myself, competing against past me to do something new, say something new, new ship, new genre, new format. This was a really fun challenge in that sense and I’m glad I took the chance!
Masterlist
6 times people lusted after Nesta, and 1 time someone loved her.
Day 1 Adventure: NEZRIEL
Day 2 Longing: MORSTA
Day 3 Fate & Destiny: NERIS
Day 4 Lover: RHYSTA
Day 5 Resilience: NESREN
Day 6 Birthday Girl: NESLION
Day 7 Free Day: NESSIAN
Thanks so much to everyone who followed along this week 🥰 I hope all your water is your preferred temperature