The midday ritual of the elves was a lot more boring than the midnight one from the witches. There was no chanting or singing, no dancing or cool purple flames. They just had a basin of water and some red dye, and went around giving people blessings and well wishes. The problem was, they had the same based on very few factors about yourself. Because I was a younger woman, their hope for me was that I would give my husband many sons. Not only was I unmarried, being a lehiam kind of prevented me from ever having any children of my own.
Elara received the same wish, while the men were blessed with the much more useful things like wisdom, strength and good health. Even though Dayaein had seen it as an insult to the sun to show up to the witches’ midnight ritual, both King Ayden and Elara tho
