A Court of Legends and Myths

Chapter 37 - Girls Day Out

Mor's POV

The girls (except Amren, she decided to go back to her apartment) and I were at the chocolatier in no time. I knew the owner of this establishment, and could get us the best of the best for a lower cost. We sat down at a table near the big windows overlooking the Rainbow. The room was large and a little cold (which of course, if it was too hot then all the chocolate would melt), it was painted a soft blue, and had tables scattered about. There were three floor to ceiling  windows overlooking the rainbow, like the ones they were presently at . And opposite the wall of the entrance was a glass display full of different delicacies. A young Urisk male maybe in his 70s, came to our table and introduced himself as our waiter. "Your best bottle of Dessert Wine and 7... Wait, Aelin , are you ok with us drinking wine? Nesta you want some?" I asked.

"Yeah, of course go ahead." Aelin replied.

"Maybe one glass. No more." Nesta answered, ever since she got better she's been careful with the amount of alcohol she drinks at a time.

"Ok so your best bottle of dessert wine, and six glasses. A citrus infused water. A dessert charcuterie board, with at least two types of chocolate cake, please and thank you." I told the waiter, he wrote stuff down on his notepad, and walked off. He came back maybe 5 minutes later with the wine and water.

"So... What's your world like?" Nesta asked Aelin and Borte.

"Depends. You asking about culture, geography, politics, wars, countries and kingdoms..." Borte said and Aelin continued, "art, history, religion, creatures, species, etc."

"All of it, or at least a recap. I'm quite interested to know if your world is or ever was a shithole, like ours." Nesta answered.

"Nesta!" Feyre and Elain exclaimed simultaneously.

"Sorry for my sister's rudeness." Elain apologized. The two girls of which Nesta was asking only shrugged as if it was nothing.

"Well basically at the dawn of time beings got stuck in our world and they became gods. Also a valg queen entered Erilea and tricked everybody into thinking she was the third sister queen of the fae, when in reality there were only two. Then more valg came in and there was a war, the fae won. One of those fae travelled across the sea and built his own kingdom, Terrasen. A thousand years later and the valg are rising again because in the first war they only sent back two of the leaders. The fae who created Terrasen was old and fading so his daughter stole a weapon she did not understand and screwed a lot of stuff up, and put the valg leader to sleep. Then two thousand years later, he rose again and now I'm fighting him and have to sacrifice my life. But I don't and we still win the third valg war and the leader who just won't die is finally dead. Also the valg queen who lied to everyone for thousands of years is dead now, too. And then 16 years pass in relative peace." Aelin recapped.

"There were also other wars and genocides across the existence of our world. Empires and Kingdoms rose and fell. My own country was established over 300 years ago and thankfully stayed out of the first two valg wars. And that's our world's history in a gist, '' Borte added. Nesta and Elain's mouths were agape. Nesta recovered first as Borte and Aelin snickered at the two.

"Your world does sound like a shithole." Nesta said.

"Eh, you're not wrong. Though only my continent and only for a decade, 16 years ago." Aelin responded.

The waiter came back with the charcuterie board. "Let's see, we got: black forest cake, double chocolate cake, chocolate lava cake, brownies, chocolate trifle, chocolate covered pretzels, eclairs, chocolate covered strawberries, raspberry coconut chocolate truffle, pumpkin peanut butter truffles, and almond maple crunch truffles, — those are my favourites, they're so hard to get, the maple has to be imported from the Autumn court." Of courses there were raspberries, regular strawberries, cherries, and mint tossed about adding some colour and an air of freshness to the board.