_{“i did not want to lose you, nesta archeron,” continues cassian, his voice rough. “i did not want to push you away, to break whatever tentative bond had been between us. i did not know if you felt it too. but when you covered my body with yours… i thought then that you were aware, and that you did not want to lose me. for the first time in five hundred years, i felt as if i were full. it did not matter to me that death had come to collect us, to take us to a realm that we have not seen; all i could think of was that i had found my mate, and she had found me. she had accepted me.”}

_{nessian oneshot: cassian confronts nesta after a brutal fight in the illyrian steppes where it was revealed that cassian withheld knowing the two were mates. the two speak for the first time after that, and nesta accepts the bond.}

_{this is part one.} 

_{part two will be released relatively soon.}

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POLITICAL ESPIONAGE AU. Vaguely fantasy-renaissance era. Feyre is an assassin (nobody say TOG) who takes out Lord Andras for an anonymous client; the job goes wrong and through she kills him, she’s caught by his superior Lord Tamlin, who agrees not to turn her in in exchange for a hit. He’s apparently already sent three assassins out on the job, all of whom failed: the target is Lord Rhysand, Tamlin’s mercurial, cutthroat political rival. But this is no shot-in-the-dark job like Feyre is used to; to get close to Rhysand, she’ll have to integrate herself into his court of associates.

Rhysand knows exactly what the awkward young woman who’s recently come into his orbit intends… and finds himself enamored with her anyway. Feyre finds herself unable to kill the kind, complicated lord, even when he provides her with plenty of opportunities to do so–but Tamlin has her sisters as collateral ensuring she finishes the job.

Masquerade balls, daring heists, and kicking Tamlin’s ass ensue.

the plot belongs solely to @valamerys, from this post over here.

here’s chapter one.

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