[ Jess was trying to focus on the present and future, where they may still have an effect on events. nothing she knows about what happened at the car was can change it. it took a great deal of self-control not to ask anyway.
bully for her.
heat and indignation spreads across the network. Alina's appeasement falls on deaf ears. ]
[ now she's wondering, though. did he get one? did he know she had? he hadn't reached out at all. somehow it feels like an additional indignity instead of a relief that he hadn't goaded her about it. ]
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bully for her.
heat and indignation spreads across the network. Alina's appeasement falls on deaf ears. ]
It was that pretentious Drozdov dick, wasn't it
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In Ravka, we call him the Darkling.
[ as much a confirmation as anything. there's something seething and resentful about how she denies him the false identity of eryk drozdov, even. ]
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Where's his citation?
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[ now she's wondering, though. did he get one? did he know she had? he hadn't reached out at all. somehow it feels like an additional indignity instead of a relief that he hadn't goaded her about it. ]