How is that in ACOWAR, Lucien had to question if Elain's worth fighting for, his own mate?
"I want to see her [Elain]. Just once. Justโto know.โ
โTo know what?โ
He hitched my damp cloak higher around us. โIf she is worth fighting for.โ
Meanwhile in that same book, Azriel who doesn't believe he's mated to Elain, didn't even hesitate. Azriel knows Elain is worth fighting for.
From the shadows near the entrance to the tent, Azriel said, as if in answer to some unspoken debate, โIโm getting her back.โ Nesta said, โThen you will die.โ
Azriel only repeated, rage glazing that stare, โIโm getting her back.โ
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๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณโ๐ด ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ, ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ช๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆโ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ช๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ฆ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ข๐ถ๐ต๐บ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ช๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฏโ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ท๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ข๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ง๐ถ๐ญ.ย
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Elain kissing Azriel on the cheek should not be dismissed. Itโs actually quite telling. In canon we can see that Azriel himself values this gesture very highly - he saves this gesture for special occasions. Elain thanked him for saving her life in a way that was meaningful to him.
Az thanking Feyre for a personal, meaningful gift.
Az congratulating Feyre on her pregnancy.
These are the only two times we see him do this. (For comparison, Cassian has given Feyre many casual cheek kisses on page. He has even kissed Elainโs cheek.) Az reserves this for pretty special/significant things. For him to receive this gesture back, and from Elain, must have meant the world to him.
Now Elain. She likes spreading joy/ making people happy. The first thing she wants to do after the war (and enduring a ton of her own trauma) is make more gardens to make others happy.
How does Azriel thank Elain for her super personal gift? With joy.
So you see, Elain thanked Azriel in a way that means something to him. And Azriel too thanked her in a way that she values.
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Bridge of connection - Daynight - Elriel
This is a theory-ish connection post. I might be wrong about them but I found this connection months ago so I wanted to do a post about it.
Sarah uses the word โbridgeโ for mates. Examples:
โBryce positioned him at her entrance, panting at the brush of the blunt head of his cock. But she released him. Let him decide whether this was what he wanted. This final bridge between their souls.โ
I braced myself to warn Nesta to be polite, but Madja said to my sister, as if she were a small child, โThe mating bond. It is a bridge between souls.โ
Rhys. But the bond, the bridge between us โฆ it was a howling void. A raging, dark tempest.
And with daynight we have this scene
โI have no idea what happened to you. Or how I found your mind. I simply felt โฆ I donโt know what I felt, but the bridge was suddenly there. I think youโre in grave danger, wherever you are.โ
With Elriel we have this
โElain looked up at Azriel, their eyes meeting, his hand still lingering on the hilt of the blade. I saw the painting in my mind: the lovely fawn, blooming spring vibrant behind her. Standing before Death, shadows and terrors lurking over his shoulder. Light and dark, the space between their bodies a blend of the two. The only bridge of connection โฆ that knife.โ
Also madja saying how mating bond is a bridge between souls and a mate could understand what was wrong with Elain... and Azriel was the one who understood what was wrong with her.
The ancient healer jerked her chin toward Lucien. โSee what he can do. If anyone can sense if something is amiss, itโs a mate.โ โHow.โ The word was barely more than a barked command. I braced myself to warn Nesta to be polite, but Madja said to my sister, as if she were a small child, โThe mating bond. It is a bridge between souls.โ
Elain was staring at the spymaster nowโunblinkingly. โWeโre the ones who need โฆโ Azriel trailed off. โA seer,โ he said, more to himself than us. โThe Cauldron made you a seer.โ
Elain turned to Mor, who was now gaping at my sister from her spot beside her on the couch. โIs that what this is?โAnd the words, the tone โฆ they were so normal-sounding that my chest tightened.
It made sense, I supposed, that Azriel alone had listened to her. The male who heard things others could not โฆ Perhaps he, too, had suffered as Elain had before he understood what gift he possessed. He asked Elain, โThere is another queen?โ
Moving on to daynight again. This is towards the end of the book. Ruhn notices how his scent is now on Lidia.
Ruhn couldnโt move from the floor as the Hind unsheathed her own slim blade. As her beckoning scent floated to him. A scent that was somehow entwined with his own. It was very faint, like a shadow, so vague that he doubted anyone else would realize the underlying scent belonged to him.โ
But the important part in my opinion is the orange part โLike a shadowโ we know Ruhn has shadow powers, so does Azriel. (I mean sarah could have just used it and it might not have any significant meaning but this is a theory so ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Iโm taking it as important here) This made me remember these scenes.
Elain stepped out of a shadow behind him, and rammed Truth-Teller to the hilt through the back of the kingโs neck as she snarled in his ear, โDonโt you touch my sister.โ
โDonโt,โ Elain said flatly, starting once more into a walk, veils of steam drifting past her shoulders from the roasted rosemary potatoes in her hands, as if they were Azrielโs shadows. โShe wonโt listen.โ
โขLidia having the scent of Ruhn on her but it is faint like a shadow...
โขElain stepping out of a shadow(and that is literally a parallel to Azriel > stepped out of a shadow) with Truth-teller, which Sarah wrote โthe only bridge of connectionโ for Elain and Azriel.
โขThe veils of stream are like azrielโs shadows... and we have lidia having Ruhnโs scent like a shadow ๐
Side not: I made a post about those rosemary potatoes in the last quote you can find it in here > with a blink and to sum it up in that post I talked about how โghost of the dishโ(aka rosemary potatoes) could be a metaphor for mating bond hint between Elain and Azriel because females offer food to males when they accept the bond
And we have Azriel canโt standing the scent of Elain and Lucienโs mating bond...
โHe left the rest unspoken. Because her mate was here, sleeping a level up. Because her mate had been in the family room and Azriel had needed to stay by the door the whole time because he couldn't stand the sight of it, the scent of their mating bond, and needed to have the optionย of leaving if it became too much.โ
This is interesting because Elain and Lucien didnโt accept the bond so... how is he smelling the bond? Is it something different with their bond and Azriel can smell it because he has the true mating bond with Elain and all of his senses are screaming at him how wrong the smell is?? Questions... questionssss
All the connections were very interesting so I wanted to make a post about. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Have a good day ๐
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๐๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฐ๐ง๐ต ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ. ๐๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ด ๐ด๐ฌ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บโ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ท๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ.
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