[ Mal just looks at him for a long time. It's still not that easy. Alina's special. Important in a way that Mal will never be. Even if there was a way to get out of not just Ravka, but their whole world, for good, it's hard to imagine her agreeing to it. She hadn't even wanted to cross the True Sea with him without some assurance that they'd go back once she was strong enough to face the Darkling.
But the Darkling isn't the only problem Ravka has. And after that...who knows? Maybe Tech's right. Maybe they can find another life, a better one, somewhere else.
He shrugs, boiling down this whole thought process to its most vital essentials. ]
Maybe.
If Alina wants to. If she agrees.
[ Because that's the only way any of this is happening, ever. He eyes Tech curiously. He'd been asking a lot of questions about other people's worlds, and not offering up nearly as much information about his own. ]
What's your world like? Is it really that bad?
[ He'd said there was a war, but there's war everywhere, in Mal's experience. It's hard to imagine anyone escaping to a place that's truly peaceful. ]
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But the Darkling isn't the only problem Ravka has. And after that...who knows? Maybe Tech's right. Maybe they can find another life, a better one, somewhere else.
He shrugs, boiling down this whole thought process to its most vital essentials. ]
Maybe.
If Alina wants to. If she agrees.
[ Because that's the only way any of this is happening, ever. He eyes Tech curiously. He'd been asking a lot of questions about other people's worlds, and not offering up nearly as much information about his own. ]
What's your world like? Is it really that bad?
[ He'd said there was a war, but there's war everywhere, in Mal's experience. It's hard to imagine anyone escaping to a place that's truly peaceful. ]