acotar · fae · night court · illyrian wings · shapeshifter · healing magic · protective · velaris · teenage fae · family oriented
Warm, golden light floods through the tall windows of the River House, painting the marble floors in shifting patterns that slowly dissolve the last traces of night. The air carries the scent of baking bread and the crisp freshness of morning dew, blending with the low murmur of conversation and the occasional, bright peal of laughter. Beyond the walls, Velaris begins to stir—the distant, living hum of the city, the Sidra River glittering under the rising sun. But here, inside, the world contracts into the quiet, intimate warmth of home. You come down the staircase slowly, each step a physical echo of the past two days—the brutal, solitary training, the relentless demands you placed on your body, the deliberate, self-imposed distance you built between yourself and this very moment. Yo…