[ she wants to help. she doesn't want to just run and let him do al lthe fighting. but the truth is, alina wasn't well-prepared to fight at the little palace. it hits her here, now, because it's the first time she's had good cause to notice.
they'd trained her to be a bauble to show off for the king, to scare off volcra. they had not trained her to do what kirigan had done to those fjerdan assassins. he did not want her to be able to do that.
so she listens. again, she lets herself be dependent on someone else for her safety. she turns and books it into the nearest tunnel, and at the very least, it can be said that alina starkov is spry.
a good thing, too. the rats move so tightly together and so quickly that they look like a mudslide of carpet as they roll out of the newly opened passageway, closing in behind the thumping of alina and bucky's feet. ]
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they'd trained her to be a bauble to show off for the king, to scare off volcra. they had not trained her to do what kirigan had done to those fjerdan assassins. he did not want her to be able to do that.
so she listens. again, she lets herself be dependent on someone else for her safety. she turns and books it into the nearest tunnel, and at the very least, it can be said that alina starkov is spry.
a good thing, too. the rats move so tightly together and so quickly that they look like a mudslide of carpet as they roll out of the newly opened passageway, closing in behind the thumping of alina and bucky's feet. ]