zoya imagined asking david to forget everything, was like asking him to stop breathing.
she always thought he would make a good fighter if he just stopped focusing on how it was supposed to be done and did it.
still, she asked it of him, because she wouldn’t let ( & )
( & ) discovering any sort of power.
if genya willed it, she could become the most powerful grisha the world had ever seen it through sheer determination.
it was people like david who needed the help. just as she had needed it with juris.
they had learned to ( & )
it would always come back to alina. once, that thought had filled zoya with a white-hot rage.
she had fought her way to the top, crawled there with nothing but the wind on her side.
alina had shown up, sunlight in her veins and taken everything. ( & )
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( & ) everything from her. it was cruel, and zoya bit down a little guilt every time she thought it, but she was glad alina knew how it felt for power to mean nothing.
“i’d like to set him on fire, but i don’t think we’d get away with that.”
zoya waved her hand, ( & )
zoya was a pretender. she knew that well enough. she had been born with nothing other than her pretty face. a dirty glass did not bother her, nor the damp smell of a ship and the roughened whiskey.
she preferred comfort, for silk would always feel softer than low ( & )
( & ) that it’s a lost cause.”
zoya couldn’t believe that. she wouldn’t let ravka and her grisha turn to dust.
“if that’s the case, then your allegiance with could be costly later.” her eyes were narrowed, shattered glass piercing anyone who dared to look ( & )
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the small sciences contained everything a grisha might be. a squaller was not supposed to be able to summon lightening or fly. a grisha was not supposed to be able to summon without their hands.
zoya found the small sciences useful in defining what she was supposed ( & )
( & ) zoya did not sit when she entered. instead, surveyed the premises.
it looked just like every other cabin. biting down a strange disappointment, zoya took one of the glasses he held out.
“you should fire your cleaner.” her eyes dropped to a smudge on his glass. ( & )



