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  1. Public Bookmark 25

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    She couldn't do it she couldn't kill him and that 'want'- to keep him alive had made Alina weak, just as the Darkling had told her it would. Alina had lost but would the Darkling spare her, had she spared Mal only to see him die at The Darkling's hand? Alternative ending to trilogy where Alina's is unable to take Mal's life. Originally posted elsewhere and written prior to publication of Nikolai Duology and the Shadow and Bone TV series.

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    22 May 2021

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    “The universe made you for me,” Aleksander says, black eyes glinting with delight.

    “No,” she corrects softly. “The universe made us for each other.”

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    The words are sketched on her left forearm. Everyone has the same kind of scrawl for their soul mark, as if the Saints wanted to make it especially difficult to figure out who it was. The mark appears when people are young – the youngest ever recorded is two years old, though the average is around five and ten. Alina was unlike the others. She’d had it as long as she could remember.

    Or: Alina and the Darkling are soulmates, but she doesn't know that yet.

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    22 May 2021

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    Alina Starkov felt like she had lost everything that day on the fold: her first love, killed by her own need for power. When she awakens in a room in the Grand Palace, she realizes her new life might be a bit more to deal with than she had expected. And then, there he was: not dead. The Darkling.
    All Alina knew was that she didn't want to be alone, and she had never asked to be queen.
     
    Post Ruin and Rising AU where Mal dies on the fold, Alina retains her powers, and the Darkling survives.
    *completed*

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    20 May 2021

  4. Public Bookmark 57

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    I have no history. No heritage.
    No colour, no smell, no sound.
    I am invisible.
    I am nobody.

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    "You will learn that I am a very patient man, Alina. You can't contain it forever, and I will be right here when you break."

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    Alina Starkov was always taught to keep her powers hidden because people in the small village she lives in would kill her if they found out. At least that's what she was told.
    But when the most powerful men in Ravka find out about a long lost Prophecy, foreseeing the arrival of the legendary Sun Summoner, who could change the war's outcome... her life will change forever.
    Truths of her parents' death, her powers and her history are revealed as she runs away to preserve her freedom.
    The people chasing her want to use her power for different reasons, and they are closing in.

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    17 May 2021

  5. Public Bookmark 83

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    They’re exes who went through a really bad breakup but still share an apartment because their stupid soulmate-identifying marks itch like hell when they’re apart for too long. They communicate solely via text/post-it stuck on the fridge.

    A love to hate to love story.

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    17 May 2021