#courtedits

“There was everything to see in Velaris: tea shops with delicate tables and chairs scattered outside their cherry fronts, surely heated by some warming spell, and full of chattering, laughing High Fae—and a few strange, beautiful fearies. There were four main market places; Palaces, they were called: two on this side—the southern side—of the Sidra River, two on the northern.”

COURT AESTHETICS ⇾  illyrian female warriors

“I insisted we keep going–right into the steep foothills that leaped into gray, snowcropped mountains that marked the start of the shared range with the Winter Court.”

“Walking through the woods of the Autumn Court felt like striding inside a jewel box.”

COURT AESTHETICS ⇾  the day court

Enormous clouds drifting in the cobalt sky, soft and magnanimous, still tinged by the rose remnants of sunrise, their round edges gilded with the golden light. The dewy freshness of morning lingered in the balmy air as we peered up the mountain-palace spiraling into the heavens above.”

COURT AESTHETICS ⇾  the summer court

COURT AESTHETICS ⇾  the spring court