A Court of Thorns and Roses

Tamlin and Feyre visit a beautiful glen. Tamlin kisses Feyre on her eyelids, allowing her to see and hear the world as the faeries do. Tamlin explains that he glamoured her senses when she first arrived so that she would not be afraid. Tamlin demands a kiss in exchange for increasing Feyre’s senses, and she playfully kisses him on the hand. They lie together peacefully.

Feyre can now see the faeries of Tamlin’s court as they truly are; insectoid gardeners buzz across the grounds, and Alis’s true tree-human-hybrid form is revealed. Lucien explains that they removed her glamour now that Feyre has become more comfortable in Prythian.

The next day, Feyre finds the head of a High Fae on a stake in the garden. The head is branded with the sigil of the Night Court, and Tamlin and Lucien take it as a message that the Night Court knows that the Spring Court is weakened by the blight. Tamlin says the head is the High Lord of the Night Court’s idea of a prank. Feyre, disturbed by faerie violence, is unable to paint that day.