[ well, now she feels terrible for questioning for even a moment that genya would turn around and bring anything alina said back to aleksander. after what they'd confided in one another!
she tries to remember that her mistrust is aleksander's fault and not her own. tries and fails. ]
You don't have anything to worry about, you know. There's no one else that I ... [ she thinks of mal, again. wonders if he'd understand what she had done and said, here, to stay alive, to keep aleksander from wondering what was wrong. she threads the needle of a half truth. ] After I got away, back in Ravka, I kept thinking to myself ... Aleksander will find me. [ a beat. ] You can trust me.
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[ well, now she feels terrible for questioning for even a moment that genya would turn around and bring anything alina said back to aleksander. after what they'd confided in one another!
she tries to remember that her mistrust is aleksander's fault and not her own. tries and fails. ]
You don't have anything to worry about, you know. There's no one else that I ... [ she thinks of mal, again. wonders if he'd understand what she had done and said, here, to stay alive, to keep aleksander from wondering what was wrong. she threads the needle of a half truth. ] After I got away, back in Ravka, I kept thinking to myself ... Aleksander will find me. [ a beat. ] You can trust me.