#sanktasolis

Alina: [reaches out a hand to help him out]

Mal: [switches all the bags to one hand]

Mal: [takes Alina's hand and holds it]

Alina: That’s not what-- okay.

  @sanktasolis​  𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕   :     “ i need you to live…cause if you’re gone then, i don’t know what the point of it all is anymore. ” ——    DEAD BY DAYLIGHT STARTERS    |     accepting. 

“ You know what the point is,  Alina. ”     The words are tender,   a whisper from steady lips.   It’s been days since he stopped feeling numb at the knowledge that hunting the Firebird cursed them with,  but the coldness that set in his bones when his hand touched her in that moment and everything lit up  . . .   it’s  sunken  into his bones,  carrying with it the knowledge that no matter how this turns out,  there can be no happy ending for the two of them.

All he can do is hold on to her,  hold on to this  time  that they’ve got.  The gentle brush of his fingers against the curve of her jaw,  the feeling of her heart beating along steadily against his as he embraces her  :    these are all moments that are numbered,  and he wants to remember  every single one  of them for as long as he can.

  @sanktasolis​   𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕     :      ❛ I will spill blood to defend what’s mine. ❜                 REIGN SENTENCE PROMPTS     ——       accepting   !

Her Saint’s words are a fact she has never questioned.   She and the crew of the Volkvolny remembered well Alina’s hesitance to end the sea whip’s life,   but no one doubted that the job had been completed as efficiently as one with a gentle heart was capable.   And yet,  this time it is different.     “ Spilling blood is always easy when it’s not someone you love, ”     Tamar answers,  hand pressing to her heart as she considers the implication of her own statement.

It’s not hard to note the lengths at which Alina will go to protect what’s hers  ———     Ravka,  it’s people and the friends she’s made along the way.  But what is more hers than  Mal ?     Perhaps she’s being a hypocrite,  knowing that if she were in Alina’s shoes she’d sooner plunge a country into darkness before a knife into her beloved’s heart.   But Alina isn’t Tamar,  and she’s certainly not someone who has the option to choose between saving  the world  and saving her  boyfriend.

 @sanktasolis​​   𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕     :      ❛  men don’t like taking orders from women. . ❜                  REIGN SENTENCE PROMPTS     ——       accepting   !

Laughter slips from her lips like a huff,   head tilting to one side in consideration of the very true statement.     “ Well...   they’re a lot more amenable when you’ve got their heart in your grasp and a knife to their throat. ”     Could she count the number of time she’d dealt with the same issue after her years getting into trouble in the roaring waters of the True Sea ?   No,  but nothing ever quite  burned  as much as the knowledge that she’d always have to work twice as hard to be seen the very way other sailors saw her brother.   She remembered the feeling well,   simmering in her veins as if an Inferni was boiling her from the inside.

— @sanktasolis​ sent   ‘ don’t look at me like i’m a hero. you’ll only disappoint yourself. ’

nikolai kept his expression passive,     just barely resisting the urge to roll his eyes and throw back another measure of kvas.  '  that’s not a very can-do attitude,  ’  he said,     kicking his boots up on the table and shooting her a look through the dim,     partial light of the captain’s quarters.     it was late.     the rest of his crew had long-since retired for the evening,     as had the sun-summoner’s ever-lurking shadow.     for the first time since she’d come aboard the volkolny,     they were finally alone together.