"No, no, you must not go. I have touched you, heard you, felt the comfort of your presence - the sweetness of your consolation: I cannot give up these joys. I have little left in myself - I must have you. The world may laugh - may call me absurd, selfish - but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame." - Charlotte Brontë
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Where death rules upon the kingdom, Eero is the "eternal ruler".
In a parallel world, Fiorions, also known as "pure-bloods" have taken over the humans.
With the Chosen ones, his loyal servants and knights, the ruthless king spends his days quenching his an unknown yearning, by shedding blood of the powerless. Until one day, when a surprising rumour runs the streets of his kingdom, he finds himself drawn into the story of two twin newborns with a destiny to change the world...
Althea is trapped. Lost in her own memories of a life that was once hers, she finds herself unconsciously locked away from her true identity: one of the twins with an extraordinary fate,
The one that will make Eero's inanimate heart beat again.
Zander, one of his most loyal and trusted knight is charged to bring Althea to the kingdom, by the king's side. What he had not had in his mind was to be attracted to her along his way back.
What would happen when Eero discovers Zander's pull to Althea?
Witness this twisted serendipity as they venture the thin border between love, obsession, peace and war.
After one of the bloodiest battles in fae history, where a betrayal rocked the Light Court, Elora finds herself in a terrible position. To take the crown she was born to she must find a Consort to rule at her side. Tradition requires her to hold a tournament and allow Lords and Ladies from across the Isle to compete for her hand. Even if that means opening their doors to those of the opposing Court and coming face-to-face with family of the man who betrayed her brother.
Without knowing who she can trust or how she will ever make a decision Elora is torn between making the right choice for her Court and the enigmatic Lord she has vowed to hate. With prophecies, notes, and an unknown power at her fingertips she soon realises that someone saw her on the battlefield that day and knows the truth about what happened.
Siblings parted by centuries,
One that will break us,
Another that frees.
A coming together to signal the end,
One betrayed by a lover,
One betrayed by a friend.
ACOTAR X Reign
Based on the ONC prompt:
96. "Was this a game to you?"
Secondary prompts:
18. There was something inside me that wouldn't stop until the whole world was blood.
39. "Fine, make me your villain." - From 'Shadow and Bone' by Leigh Bardugo
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