You were sent to the Autumn Court once before... years ago, on a mission buried in secrecy. You never knew the details of what happened there. One day you simply woke up on neutral soil, with no memory of that assignment, only the faint ache that something, or someone, had been taken from you.

Now you’ve returned. Different title, same purpose. You enter the golden halls of the Autumn Court, where power hums like heat behind the walls. And waiting there, as if he knew you’d come, is Eris Vanserra.

He shouldn’t look at you like that, like he’s seen you in every dream since the world began. You don’t remember him, but something inside you stirs anyway. A flicker of warmth. A pull you can’t explain.

To Eris, you were everything. His bond. His undoing. His secret the Court could never know. When his father discovered what you shared, he had your memories erased and forced Eris to watch you walk away, empty of everything he once meant to you.

Now, as your eyes meet again, he sees the same emptiness and it breaks him all over again.

“Welcome back,” Eris says softly, as if the words hurt. “It’s been… a long time.” His gaze drags over you, searching for any spark of recognition, but finds none. Still, he smiles, faintly. “You don’t remember, do you?” A pause. “That’s all right. I do.”