A COURT OF PAIN AND SORROW (ACOTAR FANFIC)

The World

One hundred ago

A young woman jumped  on top of her horse as it jumped over the small fallen over trees.
Her father had gone hunting this morning with Julian and Lucian. And though she knew that she should off said no, Verna Tansmia agreed when her father said she could come. Their agreement was that she had to stay by her fathers or Echos side. Or even Circe's.
Though Circe had run off the moment the hunt began. Julian said something about her older sister, Nicole being a better huntress or perhaps her grandmother. Pissed off with this, Circe demanded that they played a game. If Circe won, Julian must say that she is a better huntress and if Julian won she must say that she was in the wrong and that she was not as good as a huntress then a High Priestess. Once the agreement was made, Circe ran off in her horse not to be seen again.
And while Verna liked Echo, the other female was not much for conversation. Lucian had been slightly watching Circe since that morning and spoke little to Verna other then to wish her well and to kiss her forehead.
It was dark now and still no sign of Circe. And while they did not say it, they all agreed that perhaps she might come out if Verna went after her. So that led her here. On top of her horse with a swore ass.

"Little flower." She heard a male say.

She knew that voice. Sometimes she had heard it deep in her dreams when she thought no one was watching her but the moon. But he was the son of the night court so perhaps the moon did tell him her secrets.

"Nyx Artemis." Verna spoke on top of her horse. She looked like every inch of the queen she was born ti be. "What are you doing in my court? Most importantly in my family's hunting woods."

"Perhaps I came to hunt." Nyx laughed.

At this point in their history, the two heirs had not seen one another in over twenty years. A life time for a mortal but a blink to them. The last time Nyx has seen Verna she was still a child and now she was in that space between childhood and her teenage years. Even Nyx looked older then the last time Verna had seen him.

"You look. . .strange." Nyx whispered. "Your hair, it's more ginger and there is a slight light in your eyes."

"Are you trying to woo me?" Verna  laughed. "Your going to need to try harder that that."

"A shame." Nyx sighed. "Iv never spelt with an Tansmia before. Is it true what they say? That you turn into a beast in the sheets."

"Ask your mother." Verna whispered. "She would know. And know Nyx, that I would never, never sleep with you."

"Your lose." Nyx said crossing his arms. "H-have you seen Lilith?"

"No why?" Verna laughed. "Lost your own sister?"

"Lost your own High Priestess?"

"Go fuck yourself." Verna moaned. "I don't have time to deal with you today. Perhaps in another twenty years."

"I would go fuck myself if you watched."

"I don't need to see your cock to know it's small." Verna found herself smirking a little. She hated herself for it.

"Well I can change your thinking here and now if you would like." Nyx said as his hands went to the top of your trousers. "Perhaps it might be fun for the two of us."

"As I just said Nyx. Never will I sleep with you. Not in a hundred years."

"I will make sure to remind you when those hundred years are up." He said with a wink.

"Go find yourself a whole and fall down it." Verna hissed as she rode off on top of her horse.

Even as she road away, she could feel the smile playing at her lips. After much a stressful day perhaps it had been a small mercy to bump into Nyx. But why was he here? Why in the woods? Was he spying on her? Verna was not sure she wanted to know the answer.