Alina tries to protect the stag, but she can either help Mal or kill the stag. Alina comes to Mal's rescue, sending light barreling at Zoya and the others. When Mal attempts to kill the stag himself, Zoya deflects his attack and Mal is then shot with an arrow. They shoot the creature with an arrow, merely wounding it. Zoya, General Kirigan, and Ivan track Alina and Mal to Morozova's stag. Zoya then goes after Kaz but loses track of him. However, her irrational behavior leads to villagers being hurt, forcing Zoya to intervene and remind Polina to be smarter. Kirigan's team tracks Alina's abductors to a town in Ryevost, where Polina immediately goes after Inej, who is responsible for her brother's death. In a fit of rage, Zoya sends Kirigan's papers flying around the room. She seeks to rekindle what they once had, but General Kirigan is only interested in Alina. She'd help him make it the other way around. Zoya recalls how Kirigan used to call on her when his table was messy but his bed was neat. Kirigan can relate, as the King's soldiers treated him the same way because they knew he was more important than any of them. Zoya wonders if Alina may have left of her own free will, pointing out that Alina never fit in at the Palace. General Kirigan requests for Zoya to join him at sundown when he leads a team in pursuit of the rogues from Ketterdam that took Alina. After he admits that he made a deal with General Zlatan to kill Alina, the Darkling kills him. Zoya accompanies General Kirigan as he questions the Conductor after he was apprehended while trying to kill Alina. Enraged, Zoya uses her abilities on Alina, which is strictly forbidden. Fueled by anger, Alina manages to land a single punch. It is then that Zoya adds insult to injury when she tells Alina that Mal also liked it when she put him on his back. However, with Zoya having trained with Botkin since she was a girl and Alina having very little skills whatsoever, she is subdued by Zoya both times. Zoya is hand-picked by Alina for a round of sparring during a training session with Botkin. Targeting Alina Īfter a demonstration at the Grand Palace, in which Alina proves to the king that she is in fact the Sun Summoner, the Grisha embrace Alina with open arms, with the exception of Zoya, who whispers in Alina's ear that she a "half-breed" and that she "stinks of the orphanage." She then instructs for Alina to be taken to the general's tent, where they discover that Alina is the Sun Summoner. They arrive at camp, where Zoya discovers Mal and Alina lying on deck unconscious and calls over a Healer. Having destroyed the volcra, the skiff makes it through the Fold without any further confrontation. While attempting to cross the Fold, the skiff is attacked by volcra, during which time a blast of light erupts from on deck, destroying the nearby volcra. However, Mal declines her advances and leaves. She then realizes that he's one of the escorts for the crossing into the Shadow Fold and reveals that she often likes to have a good tumble with a stranger whenever she gets nervous the night before a big mission. She warns him that theft could get him thrown in a hole. Zoya catches Mal in the act of stealing a bowl of grapes from the Second Army's tent.
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