Who: Alina and Nikolai What: Alina is D-R-U-N-K coping Where: The dining car When: Shortly after Nikolai’s arrival Rating: TBA Status: Incomplete
So apparently, she was not only friends with Zoya, who, by all accounts of Alina’s interactions with her back home pointed to her being a mega-bitch, but she had been engaged—however briefly, to the spare heir of Ravka. And apparently they were friends?
It was all too much to handle. The news of losing her powers, of Mal dying, coming back to life, them apparently getting married and having to live under new identities…
Then there was the fact that eventually, somehow, they are able to beat the Darkling...
Which means the man is not as invincible as he appears…which emboldens Alina to go slap him. After kvas, of course. She is halfway through her third bottle. She feels dizzy and sick, but maybe she’ll vomit all over his stupid kefta.