Thank You @13agota For Tagging Me To Post The Last Line I Wrote! I Apologize For Answering Late, I Always

"Inej is the main lead of the Six of Crows ensemble cast" I say into the mic. the crowd boos. I begin to walk off in shame.

"She's right!" I hear someone say. I look to the crowd. there in the 5th row stands Leigh Bardugo and her marketing team themselves.

vivien leigh in a promotional shot for “waterloo bridge” (1940)

rip Vladimir Nabokov, you would've loved talking shit about Booktok.

Blumarine Fall/Wint 2021

Blood Meridian by violet_persephone

Chapter 4: July Heatwaves in Nebraska

“I told you. I told you it was part of the job. What did you think was going to happen, Inej? I didn’t take you from the Menagerie so we could all be one happy fucking family, did I? I wanted you to be dangerous. You were, and now you’re whining about it.”

“And I told you that I didn’t want to kill innocent people!”

“Then why did you?”

“He was about to kill you!” Inej cries, and springs to her feet. Her face is flushed, from crying or from anger, Kaz isn’t sure.

“Inej, don’t listen to him,” Nina spits over Jesper’s unconscious body. “Kaz is just a bastard. Don’t listen to him. Kaz, leave her alone.”

“Would you rather have been killed?” Inej asks, her palms outstretched, as if Kaz can package up the answer and place it in her hands. “Would you rather have been killed than have me cry?”

WE HAVE A TANK!!!

Blood Meridian by violet_persephone

Chapter 3: June Tornados in Kansas

“So I’ll be scaling the train instead,” Inej finishes. “I remember.”

“Scaling the train while it’s moving,” Kaz stresses, narrowing his eyes at her. “Get inside the locomotive and make the conductor stop. The tracks will be destroyed, so the conductor would need to stop either way, but you’ll need to subdue him. Make him tell the passengers that they’ve stopped for maintenance. If we panic the pigeons, they’ll be more difficult to work with. Jesper and I will start at the first car, and Matthias and Nina will hit the last. We’ll reconvene in the middle.”

Inej’s hands shake as she says: “We’re robbing them, and then leaving. We aren’t harming anyone.”

Kaz’s head dips. “Unless they make things difficult.”

“Kaz. I won’t kill anyone. I won’t kill innocent passengers.”

He scoffs at her. “Yes, your holiness, you’ve made yourself clear. We’ll see about that.”