You don't get to be fickle with your food in Ravka. You eat whatever slop you're given, or you go hungry. Sometimes you eat it and go hungry, anyway.
I can't sleep and talk to you at the same time, can I? Ask Paul to do that for you instead, then. It's a little like art, just for your nails.
( what she doesn't say yet: that it might be a comfort for him to be helpful, to redirect his care to someone who deserves it, and not — not her. not the reason he had been brought back changed, wrong, different — poor repayment for the life he had given at the altar of alina starkov, the blood he had spilled so that her own water might be spared, made her sacrificial lamb. )
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You eat whatever slop you're given, or you go hungry.
Sometimes you eat it and go hungry, anyway.
I can't sleep and talk to you at the same time, can I?
Ask Paul to do that for you instead, then. It's a little like art, just for your nails.
( what she doesn't say yet: that it might be a comfort for him to be helpful, to redirect his care to someone who deserves it, and not — not her. not the reason he had been brought back changed, wrong, different — poor repayment for the life he had given at the altar of alina starkov, the blood he had spilled so that her own water might be spared, made her sacrificial lamb. )