Be careful what you ask for. * She awakens the next morning to a loud thump as Genya sets down a bouquet of flowers that is, Alina finds upon opening her eyes, frankly embarrassing in its size and profusion of blooms, all white and gold and black, the color announcing who they’re from as clear as the card with its single bold K.
“Well, my dear,” her friend says, “you’ve certainly made yourself the talk of the ton - the gossips won’t waste any time passing around the fact that the General has had the most expensive flowers in Ravka delivered straight from the Grisha greenhouses to your door; he may as well have declared his intentions to win you before the entire court.”
“Win me,” Alina mutters, sitting up and rubbing the sleep from her eyes, “what, as though I’m a prize at the county fair,” and even through the baffled surprise of it all, she doesn’t miss the slanting look Genya gives her before she says, “More akin to the spoils of war, I should think, darling - and you’d best get out of that bed, because he’ll be here within the hour.”
Re: An Old World Made New (Shadow & Bone, Darklina) - Part 2!
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She awakens the next morning to a loud thump as Genya sets down a bouquet of flowers that is, Alina finds upon opening her eyes, frankly embarrassing in its size and profusion of blooms, all white and gold and black, the color announcing who they’re from as clear as the card with its single bold K.
“Well, my dear,” her friend says, “you’ve certainly made yourself the talk of the ton - the gossips won’t waste any time passing around the fact that the General has had the most expensive flowers in Ravka delivered straight from the Grisha greenhouses to your door; he may as well have declared his intentions to win you before the entire court.”
“Win me,” Alina mutters, sitting up and rubbing the sleep from her eyes, “what, as though I’m a prize at the county fair,” and even through the baffled surprise of it all, she doesn’t miss the slanting look Genya gives her before she says, “More akin to the spoils of war, I should think, darling - and you’d best get out of that bed, because he’ll be here within the hour.”