Have you not heard? Don't play coy. You must have tasted me on the Sun Summoner. It seems you do have a taste for me, after all.
[ it hardly matters that it isn't true, necessarily. if the darkling thinks to prod at her with ravka's rumors of her role as a king's whore, to stab into her soft underbelly and hope she'll bleed out like a hurt child for his entertainment, he has forgotten how equipped she is to return the favor. a strategy, on zoya's part, allowing him no leverage while hunting for answers of her own — any scrap that might confirm her suspicions.
and, barring that, any sliver that will lodge into his skin to irritate him.
mine, she pointedly does not say of alina — and she does not allow him to claim the ownership of ours. neither is alina starkov ravka's sun summoner to seize like property, permitting only powerful men to belong to themselves. the sun summoner, belonging only to herself. ]
Threats are idle talk. Come closer and I'll gladly show you what divine wrath looks like.
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Don't play coy. You must have tasted me on the Sun Summoner.
It seems you do have a taste for me, after all.
[ it hardly matters that it isn't true, necessarily. if the darkling thinks to prod at her with ravka's rumors of her role as a king's whore, to stab into her soft underbelly and hope she'll bleed out like a hurt child for his entertainment, he has forgotten how equipped she is to return the favor. a strategy, on zoya's part, allowing him no leverage while hunting for answers of her own — any scrap that might confirm her suspicions.
and, barring that, any sliver that will lodge into his skin to irritate him.
mine, she pointedly does not say of alina — and she does not allow him to claim the ownership of ours. neither is alina starkov ravka's sun summoner to seize like property, permitting only powerful men to belong to themselves. the sun summoner, belonging only to herself. ]
Threats are idle talk.
Come closer and I'll gladly show you what divine wrath looks like.