NIMUE; ap

un !!   nimue is tasked with the role of playing the virgin goddess in the rites bc masks are involved and no one previously knows/will know who she is. somehow, somewhere before she and her ‘consort’ part in the morning, they get a good look at each others’ face. this becomes complicated down the road when her king stag turns out to be among those at camelot when she goes on her mission.

deux !!   a plot similar to what happens with morgaine and arthur, where nimue and someone else are /specifically/ chosen to play the roles of the virgin goddess and the horned god bc they carry the blood of the ancients. fate is a bitch and shenanigans ensue.

trois !!   nimue slips away from the castle ( camelot or some other verse idk ) to go watch the rites, even if she can’t allow herself to participate in them. lo and behold someone not affiliated with the Old Religion follows her and finds out her secret.

quatre !!   ( this one could actually work on any holiday where the veils between worlds is thin ) but some modern tourist is loitering around glastonbury and gets a free trip into avalon on a holy day. think something similar to outlander.

Now it is the time for the Goddess to welcome the Horned One-he was kneeling at the edge of the deerskin couch, swaying, blinking by the light of the torch. She reached up to him, gripped his hands, drew him down to her, feeling the soft warmth and weight of his body. She had to guide him. I am the Great Mother who knows all things, who is maiden and mother and all-wise, guiding the virgin and her consort …  dazed, terrified, exalted, only half conscious, she felt the life force take them both, moving her body without volition, moving him too, guiding him fiercely into her, till they were both moving without knowledge of what force gripped them.