( ah. the one probing questioning alina doesn't want to bend to answering. )
I trust her with my life. Just not yours. Alia wouldn't harm anyone without reason, unless this place pushed her to do it.
( what's unsaid: the evidence, much as alina would like to turn a blind eye to it, is stacked against alia — and alina no longer has the excuse of the same youth and naivety that had mottled her vision of the darkling. )
You know as I do that power isn't always so easy to control.
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I trust her with my life. Just not yours.
Alia wouldn't harm anyone without reason, unless this place pushed her to do it.
( what's unsaid: the evidence, much as alina would like to turn a blind eye to it, is stacked against alia — and alina no longer has the excuse of the same youth and naivety that had mottled her vision of the darkling. )
You know as I do that power isn't always so easy to control.