Iselin

Kit's smile died a swift death. "Not anymore."

Whose are you now?

"Nobody's ," Kit answered quietly

"I don't," said Janus, a swell of warmth, like a small tide, lifting his heart. "I never felt any differently about you in the mundane world than I do when you're next to me. You're mine."

Ash smiled. "Who's else's?"

A wicked powers theory

“Dru sighed and looked at the inside of her wrist, where she'd applied a True North rune earlier that evening. In the late afternoon, really. Hours ago.”

first chapter of tlkof

A True North rune is a tracking rune, for a person whose whereabouts are unknown. But I think Cassie did a play on this.

In a lot of media (shadow and bone for example), true north is seen as home. Its where you feel save and loved because It’s a person’s orientating point— an internal compass that’s representing who you are at your deepest level.

Ash, tlkof

So you’re telling me Dru just happens to teleport into a unknown wild fae outpost and Ash is coincidentally RIGHT THERE? While she has a rune that’s named after a metaphor for someone’s true love?

dru & ash - the last king of faerie

- So protective of the people he loves that it becomes controlling

- So insistent on doing the Right Thing that he steamrolls anyone who gets in his way

- So sure he's being the Good Guy that he doesn't realise what he's become until it's too late