Well, if responsibility for all the Grisha, and the Black Heretic besides, has for some reason skipped your mother ...
[ which she points out only because she cannot help the jibe — it is so obvious, now that she knows. it is so obvious now that he gives her all of the adjacent information. is he waiting for her to figure it out? or is he just so arrogant and so thoroughly convinced that she is placid and foolish that there is nothing for him to fear, no matter what he says?
but she can't be. alina starkov was not born to hide. she is a fighter. she always has been. she comes to a stop. it's the most audacious thing she's ever said, and yet it comes out quickly, fluidly, because it comes from a place of hurt. the hurt that she's been nursing since the winter fete. ]
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[ which she points out only because she cannot help the jibe — it is so obvious, now that she knows. it is so obvious now that he gives her all of the adjacent information. is he waiting for her to figure it out? or is he just so arrogant and so thoroughly convinced that she is placid and foolish that there is nothing for him to fear, no matter what he says?
but she can't be. alina starkov was not born to hide. she is a fighter. she always has been. she comes to a stop. it's the most audacious thing she's ever said, and yet it comes out quickly, fluidly, because it comes from a place of hurt. the hurt that she's been nursing since the winter fete. ]
Am I not your equal?