It was not that the women in 300 Fox Way weren’t her family – they were where her roots were buried, and nothing could diminish that. It was just that there was something newly powerful about this assembled family in this car. They were all growing up and into each other like trees striving together for the sun.

Power meant something more in Ravka, where the elements bent to the will of the Grisha and the country was ruled by a proper king instead of a cadre of upstart merchants.

No one knew who he was. No one knew where he came from. He’d become Kaz Brekker, cripple and confidence man, bastard of the Barrel.

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“Redemption," he murmured. "Salvation. Penance. My mother's quaint ideas. Perhaps I should have paid closer attention.”

the swim back from the reaper’s barge had been kaz’s  r e b i r t h . the child he’d been had died of firepox. the fever had burned away every gentle thing inside him.

To prove his theory of the relationship between near death experiences and EOs, Eli Cardale and Victor Vale planned an experiment with Eli as the test subject. Unfortunately, their experiment was unsuccessful and the test subject did not survive the process.