peasant: (alina29996)
☀️ ᴀʟɪɴᴀ sᴛᴀʀᴋᴏᴠ. ([personal profile] peasant) wrote 2025-01-22 06:17 pm (UTC)

Don't tell me you hit your head and forgot we're already married, umnitsa.
That means "good, clever boy" before you ask. What will you choose for your reward?


( she is, genuinely, a little proud — which is a good antidote against the impulse to upheave from withdrawal and the question of grisha humanity, both. )

You won't find many countries that consider Grisha people.
To Ravka, we're weapons. To Fjerda, we're abominations. To my mother's country, we're bodies for their experiments.
Only Novyi Zem considers us equal. Only the Zemeni treat our power as something pure, something our own.

Why would your world need a test, anyway? Isn't EVERYONE human? Even the ones who pretend otherwise.


( aleksander, especially, but it's been easier to replace the sourness of his name on her tongue with a sweeter life, here. )

Always? You couldn't have always known. You were preoccupied with not getting yourself stabbed.
But no, I haven't had the chance to. I could add it to my assignments, Professor Atreides.

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