#hazel's editathon

they wanted a grisha queen. mal wanted a commoner queen. and what did i want? peace for ravka. a chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. an end to the guilt and dread that i woke to every morning.

what they don't realize is this: yes, they frighten me, but i have always been scared, since the day i got here. i was raised by a man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. i live with that fear, let it settle into my bones, and ignore it. if i didn't pretend not to be scared, i would hide under my owl-down coverlets in madoc's estate forever. i would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. i refuse to do that. i will not do that.

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@dragonwiccan asked kaz or matthias 

He almost laughed at that. “No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.”

But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.

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Hermione Granger through the years.