It was not that he did not know how to love: he did, terribly much. But love was weakness, so he learnt to hide it. Especially from the ones he loved.

Before the shadow fold, before the black heretic, there was a princess and her court. Fixing the rift between the west and the east will not be easy for her court, and stopping the creation of the fold will be even more difficult.

⚜️ ODD ⚜️ Darya Konstantynovna Lantsov was not any princess. As a matter of fact, she never thought of herself as a princess. She was, first and foremost, Grisha. And she would die fighting for a safe world for the Grisha. And she wouldn't spare any efforts, and ignore her own conscience to make sure that world existed.

"Darkness never dies. " "True, but neither does light. " the darkling x oc shadow and bone ending au!

Alina Starkov expected to wake up on a ship sailing across the True Sea, one that would take her far from Ravka, far from the Darkling and his mad crusade. Instead, she awoke in Os Alta to a devastating truth: the war was won nearly a century ago, her first love was dead, and she remembered nothing. Not even that, as part of her surrender, she agreed to a political marriage.

My first lemon, yaaaay. This happens right after Shadow And Bone, when Alina was kidnapped by a sailor and forced to work at a brothel. Mal turned out to have an infected wound, and the owners of the brothel won't give Mal the treatment he needs every day unless Alina earns enough money. But when Alina least expects it, she has to find a way to not be spotted by the Darkling, who decided to take a nice break from searching for her. The story will be told in different parts, you can choose Alina's POV for that part or the Darkling's POV (Yea I know this is lame and all I just wanted to write it)