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𝐄𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐏𝐒𝐄𝐃.
❝𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬, 𝐰𝐞'𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡.❞
a shadow and bone darklina fic set at the end of siege and storm.
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𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐎𝐕, sun summoner, saint, politica...
no matter who you ship, i think we can all agree nikolai is awesome.
~𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲
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𝐈 𝐖𝐀𝐒 still pondering over what the markings on the map meant.
I sighed. I had racked my brain for hours on end, to no avail. Now those seven letters even haunted my dreams at night. Maybe I should consult Mal, Nikolai, Genya, Zoya - the group of them camped out in the forest...
Saints.
Mal, Nikolai, Genya, Zoya, Tolya, Tamar, David. M, N, G, Z, T, T, D.
I knew what the markings meant now.
The Darkling had found them.
Oh my god. Oh my god.
I needed to find a way to warn them.
Hasty plans formed in my mind. I would go to the stables today, and follow Genya's instructions to their camp in the forest...
Yes, that's what I'd do.
I walked out of my room with determination and crept out of the palace, to the stables. Luckily, the Darkling was at a meeting, so he couldn't have seen me, and no one was currently tending to the horses. For once, luck was in my favour - a very rare occasion.
As I was about to walk into the forest, a particular horse caught my eye. It was paddocked in an especially lavish stable - and its glossy, shiny coat was as dark as the midnight sky, a beautiful, resonating deep blue close to black.
I inspected the plaque tacked to the stable door, and found out that it was a male stallion, as well as that its name was Nightlock. [Lil surprise for hunger games fans lmao]
"Hey there, Nightlock," I whispered, caressing its mane softly. I assumed this was the Darkling's horse, given it matched his emo aesthetic so well.
Nightlock gave a small whimper as I stroked it. I couldn't expect that the Darkling treated him very well. [For this scene I took inspiration from another fic, don't rmb which, but creds to the author!]
"The Shadow King doesn't give you much affection, does he?" I ask softly. His dark eyes seemed to look at my face, and I smiled.
"Well, that's about to change," I said as I opened the doors and climbed onto his back. Almost instinctively, he canted into a trot.
Riding a horse was...exhilarating. It let me escape from the bitter truths of reality, let me leave my problems behind and just be. I relished the wind whipping in my hair, the sand on the ground flying up to meet my face, the rhythmic movements of his strides.
I loved it.
After half an hour of riding, I came to a big rock - two metres high, as Genya had described.
I stopped Nightlock and got down, missing the adrenaline almost at once.
"Alina! Alina!"
I turned around immediately. A flash of golden hair and a simply dazzling smile.
"Oh, Nikolai," I nearly sobbed, running over to meet him.
"Miss me much?" he chortled.
I collided into his arms, and we stayed like that for a while, wrapped in each other's embrace.
Over his shoulder, I saw the rest of them, and Mal.
Mal.
My eyes met his blue gaze crackling with electric intensity, and in that second, my heart felt whole. Complete.
I just wished I could stay in that moment forever.
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