the fact that nina calls her out on this but not the earlier thing confirms that she cannot, as it turns out, fool a heartrender. not well, anyway. but she had managed to get the comment about the kefta and the general over on her, it seemed. the fact that there was a line, and that her previous comment had slid under it, suggests to alina that she might be able to pull this off.
(narrator voice: she was incorrect. she would not be able to pull this off.)
the same could not be said, apparently, for the matter of the stag. ]
Oh. It's stupid. It's probably nothing. [ a beat. ] You know the legends of Morozova's stag? I keep seeing it. Only ... the Apparat gave me a copy of Istorii Sankt'ya. It must be that. [ on the brain, obviously. ]
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the fact that nina calls her out on this but not the earlier thing confirms that she cannot, as it turns out, fool a heartrender. not well, anyway. but she had managed to get the comment about the kefta and the general over on her, it seemed. the fact that there was a line, and that her previous comment had slid under it, suggests to alina that she might be able to pull this off.
(narrator voice: she was incorrect. she would not be able to pull this off.)
the same could not be said, apparently, for the matter of the stag. ]
Oh. It's stupid. It's probably nothing. [ a beat. ] You know the legends of Morozova's stag? I keep seeing it. Only ... the Apparat gave me a copy of Istorii Sankt'ya. It must be that. [ on the brain, obviously. ]