Eluciey

Lucien: Yes, my Lady? Light of my life? The most beautiful flower in my garden?

Elain: Why is the kitchen on fire?

Lucien:

Lucien: I tried, and therefore no one should criticize me.

Elain: You were making tea.

Feyre shuddering at the thought of Elain experiencing “fire” in bed is coddling and infantilizing. (Edit: see replies)

Besides fire, Lucien has also spellcleaving, light generation, and air manipulation powers because he’s the biological son of Helion, with whom Elain is seen interacting at the end of SF.

We cannot take for granted that Vassa will retain the fire powers that she got from Koschei’s curse when she is freed from it.

In one version of the Firebird folktale the Firebird, together with the Gray Wolf, are the helpers of prince Ivan, who defends (and later marries) a princess called Helen (who is not the Firebird) from his brothers who conspired (and quite literally killed him only he was revived) to take the throne from him. In the Firebird ballet, prince Ivan slays Koschei.

In another version, a king orders a huntsman to kidnap princess Vasilisa whom the king wants to marry. Vasilisa states as one condition that the king orders the huntman to bathe in boiling water and the huntsman survives, becoming beautiful. The king bathes in boiling water too, but dies, and the revived huntsman becomes king and marries Vasilisa. Before the Mortals Queens sold Vassa off to Koschei, the King of Hybern tasked Jurian, whom he has revived with the Cauldron, with securing their loyalty. The King of Hybern is later killed by two Cauldron-Made Archeron sisters.

Something seems to be troubling you, Mary

Elena Wuest (German, b. 1977)

‘Beyond’, 2025