TANGLED, genya safin

chapter seven.

I told her about Rebecca and Aliya though, how they'd been the only friends I had as a tracker, how'd they always been there for me, even if we weren't the closest of friends, I was still glad to have them. Which made me wonder what they were doing right now in Ryevost.

Had they been thinking about me? Had they thought that I knew I'd been the sun and tidemaker? Would they forgive me if I would have known? I don't know. But a part of me thought myself stupid for questioning myself, of course, they would, they'd never leave you for who you were. But at the same time, I knew that both girls had never been overly fond of the Grisha, but would now make a difference? Would they see me the same way?

I shook the thought away when I saw Genya striding through the doors and into the domed hall, what was she doing here? I thought but then she was making her way over to our table. I looked away when her gaze shifted in my direction, and I part of me wanted to mentally slap myself, but why?

She took her seat down next to Alina, "aren't you two supposed to be with Baghra?" She asked, "yes, but we hadn't eaten this morning," Alina replied, "and besides I could care less if we are a few minutes late. I'm not scared of her."

I knew that was a lie, but I didn't say anything. "Aren't you supposed to be with the queen?" I then asked after a few seconds. Genya groaned, lifting her hand to her face, "Queen Tatiana has no regard for my sleep, she had me up at the crack of dawn this morning, to fix her sagging tits and polish her saint's forsaken goblin feet."

Genya sighed dramatically, "but then shooed me away, and said I had the day off, which I will admit is what I've been needing for the past few days."

Alina shook her head, "you know maybe when I can use my power better, I can blind her." Genya snorted, "I'd love that very much."

"Anyways, I came over here to see David, and you know what." She paused, snickering, "he completely ignored my existence, again."

I looked between Genya and Alina as they bickered about this David. I let out a cough, "who's David?" I asked, a slight frown tugging my lips.

Genya and Alina turned their attention to me, blinking once, and then twice before Genya let out a laugh, "ooh, yes, sorry I forgot to mention him didn't I," she said with a laugh, "Alina's already met him, but he's one of the Materalki, Durast, whatever you want to call them." Genya ranted, her cheeks darkened slightly as she looked from me and down to the table, "he's the creator of the blue light,"

I nodded, listening as she went on about this David person. Something in me sparked though, in my chest, making it beat faster than I thought a heart could. I said the name over and over in my head, David, David, David and each time it got more and more bitter. I didn't know what it was, but the feeling wasn't good.

I tried my best to cover it up by nodding, laughing, and smiling. But then Alina had read me like an open book and saw right through the cracks of a page, and smirked over her shoulder at me after she'd seemed to have figured it out. The gears turning in my head as Genya went on about David were durable but the longer she talked about him the more it made me want to just get up and leave.

But I didn't, I just nodded and smiled. I knew how to hide my emotions, and I had learned how to cover them up, but this one in particular just didn't want to crawl away and it was annoying me greatly.

Ten minutes later after Genya, had gone off to get herself a glass of tea, was when I and Alina had finally escaped the domed hall and began our walk to Baghra's hut.