[ treason, then. nina doesn't say it lightly. it wells out of her like water from a broken dam. alina lets herself get caught in the flood, lets the words wash over her, filling in every little crack that baghra's lecture had left.
alina has not been a grisha long enough to know deeply what nina describes. but she has been on the other side of it, the side that fears and even hates them — less than fjerdans and shu and anyone else hates them, but still hates them. she knows it to be true.
which is how nina's ideals sound good, promising, righteous. and that's how she finds herself asking, not arguing. ]
What would you be willing to do to get a world like that? [ would she weaponize the shadow fold? would she kill all the women and children who'd been innocently swept up into the merzost that created the fold in the first place? would she watch more otkazat'sya die to the volcra, even the innocent or ambivalent? kirigan would. ]
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alina has not been a grisha long enough to know deeply what nina describes. but she has been on the other side of it, the side that fears and even hates them — less than fjerdans and shu and anyone else hates them, but still hates them. she knows it to be true.
which is how nina's ideals sound good, promising, righteous. and that's how she finds herself asking, not arguing. ]
What would you be willing to do to get a world like that? [ would she weaponize the shadow fold? would she kill all the women and children who'd been innocently swept up into the merzost that created the fold in the first place? would she watch more otkazat'sya die to the volcra, even the innocent or ambivalent? kirigan would. ]