Not Part of Your Machine

huntr/x were apprentices under celine's atelier (bobby could be the watchful eye tho i kinda want to keep him as the token "normal guy™")

now they've become famous for being traveling performers, spreading joy and wonder while gracefully but discretely incorporates magic to their acts

rumi is a daughter of both pointed and brimmed caps

her brimmed cap parentage left her with either silverwood or a generative/chronic disease-like curse, barely held back by tattooed sealing spells on her skin

as she's grown the disease has started to grow far enough that it's affecting her voice and even her spells

enter jinu, a brimmed cap who's gained interest in rumi after learning her secret in a failed attempt to sabotage one of huntr/x' shows

derpy is an abnormally large and fluffy brushbuddy and sussy is a quadryphon that keeps following him

jinu tells rumi how he was recruited by the brimmed caps after a magical accident left him with a curse of his own, requiring spells be grafted all over his body

shenanigans ensue

The Winter Solstice celebration in the Hewn City was one of my fav moments from the book... mostly because Nesta got to leverage her Very Particular Set of Skills that she had been made to hone since she was a child.

I wish I had seen more of that (and courtly intrigue in general), so I took some wild detours from canon. I thought it would be lovely if Lucien taught Nesta Autumn Court dances while Mor taught her Night Court dances while Cassian taught her traditional Illyrian dances for reasons. (I also swapped waltzing for Latin-style dances for the Autumn Court, but kept it ballroom for the toffs. The Night Court can keep their waltzes.) Bonus for Cassian dancing because I can't stop, won't stop.

They all turn to see Fifteen's Tardis materialize. The door flies open, Fifteen pokes his head out.

"HEAL BETTER!" He yells before slamming the door and materializes away.

Everyone blinks.

"More tea?" Sylvia asks.