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Give Me Something I Could Follow by restlessj
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
15 Oct 2025
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Summary
“You were ready to die to kill me”, he said. His face was impassive, but there was something in his voice that sounded like admiration.
“What do you want?” I wheezed. I could feel the tears streaming down again. The Darkling reached towards my face to wipe them away. It brought me satisfaction to see that his movements were almost as labored as mine.
“What I always want”, he said softly. “To save the Grisha. To protect Ravka. You.”_
At the end of Siege and Storm, Alina Starkov is captured at the Little Palace after she tries to kill the Darkling. She is alone among enemies, while her allies are scattered and her powers weakened by her battle with the Darkling. With her body and spirit beaten down, she finds comfort in the budding friendship with her jailer Natasha. With the newfound feelings she has to face an uncomfortable truth: there are good people fighting for the Darkling. How can she destroy him without destroying them?
This is my attempt to fix everything I disliked about Ruin and Rising, and also to give Alina some much needed female friendships (and sapphic feels).