So I'm doing better in my dreams, besides this thing with an evil king wanting to destroy us all, but personally? Much better now that I'm away from my ex.
Rhysand and the others are training me to use my new Fae abilities, including the ability to shift wings and fly.
And I've never felt so determined to do something and so at home among these people and their gorgeous city. It's like I'm finally realizing how badly I was treated in the Spring Court.
And the flight practice is really nice.
But my ex and his people still want to get me back, and Lucien, one of those friends who'd looked the other way, tried to 'save' me from my kidnapper. Instead, I showed him what staring too long into the darkness looks like, which is what he wanted to see. Nothing like the darkness I've seen, the darkness in the way his master treated me, or the darkness of an Old God who weaves human hair and skin.
Maybe they'll leave me alone now. I kind of doubt it. But ... I find the darkness suits me. The night is dark, and filled with glittering stars and the people who I was told were evil are among the most good and kind I've ever met. And they showed me Starfall, the night every year where the sky is filled with beautiful falling stars.
I've found joy in the night after so much pain in a false paradise. And... my new family. We're all broken, we've all suffered, but we found each other. I miss them.