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  1. Public Bookmark 59

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    "You were so willing to die to stop me, Alina. Are you unwilling to live, instead?"

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    This fic explores the answers to three questions: What happened to Aleksander and Baghra in those years between Demon in the Wood and The Grisha Trilogy? How might the Darkling and Alina have pushed and pulled and eventually shaped each other if he had reacted to events at the Spinning Wheel differently? And, most importantly: after everything that was done to them, and everything they did to each other, what would it take for our Grisha trilogy immortals to be happy — or at least, have the potential to be?

    This is a story of familial love and loss, and other types of love, and anger, and fear. It’s a story about what it means to be alone — and what it means to be together.

    In other words: there was a feeling he knew the name for a hundred lifetimes ago, and now he has to re-learn what it means, and what it doesn't.

    (In which Aleksander gets what he wants, and it turns out to not be what he wants at all — but rather, what he needs.)

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    24 Jan 2023

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    Alina's project in her last year of university has caught Ambassador Morozova's attention. He convinces her to move to Ravka to bring solar energy to the villages; her role turns out to be much larger than that.

    This is the story of their relationship – and her revenge.

    A modern day AU and occasional retelling. Nothing Small about this Science.

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    14 Jan 2023

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    I have thought about this fic every day since 2018

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    Alina Starkov has always lived in the palace.

     

    Or: a series of vignettes that take place when the sun-summoner is brought to the Little Palace as a child.

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    14 Jan 2023

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    I would have gone to the Little Palace and been spoiled and pampered. I would have dined off of golden plates, and I never would have struggled to use my power. It would have been like breathing, the way it always should have been. And in time, I would have forgotten Keramzin

    In the conservatory at Tomikyana, Alina tells Mal what their story would have been if the Grisha Examiners had discovered her power. This is that tale, from the very beginning, to the bitter end.

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    14 Jan 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 43

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    She steps out of the cage he’s made of himself and extends a hand, but he takes it all wrong for the friendly farewell she meant. He has her by the wrist, his thumb tracing the bones.
    “Oh, you’re not going anywhere,” he says lightly even as his grip begins slowly to tighten. “It seems to me, Miss Starkova, that it’s dangerous for a girl like you to continue all on your own.”

     

    To avoid an unwanted marriage, Alina asks for the protection of the most powerful man in town. She never expected that he would propose himself as her next suitor.

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    06 Jan 2023