It still seems impossible. That the man who'd guarded the Grisha of Ravka was one of the reasons why they were so despised. That the man who fought so hard for them had also created that which made their lives infinitely more miserable - had left her with only memories of her father, snatches of scent, an off-key hum of a tune. The Fold had taken so many lives, for the man responsible for it to still be alive, and not only that, in a place of honor and power and position -- and for no one to have known? For him to have gotten away with it for so long? ]
Someone would have noticed. You can't just -- stay in the same place, unchanged, for centuries. People are blind, but not that blind.
[ But people can be disposed of. And the Dark Heretic would have plenty of ways of doing that.
Alina said he'd told her as much -- why would he do that? Why would he risk that, if it were true? She feels her stomach sink, sickened, as she considers the implications. ]
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It still seems impossible. That the man who'd guarded the Grisha of Ravka was one of the reasons why they were so despised. That the man who fought so hard for them had also created that which made their lives infinitely more miserable - had left her with only memories of her father, snatches of scent, an off-key hum of a tune. The Fold had taken so many lives, for the man responsible for it to still be alive, and not only that, in a place of honor and power and position -- and for no one to have known? For him to have gotten away with it for so long? ]
Someone would have noticed. You can't just -- stay in the same place, unchanged, for centuries. People are blind, but not that blind.
[ But people can be disposed of. And the Dark Heretic would have plenty of ways of doing that.
Alina said he'd told her as much -- why would he do that? Why would he risk that, if it were true? She feels her stomach sink, sickened, as she considers the implications. ]