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Jesper had made a dent in the ringwall—a sizeable one—but not a hole. “Ready?” he called. “Ready,” Inej and Wylan replied in unison. They ducked beneath the gun turret. Wylan had scratches from the glass all over his cheeks and neck. He was beaming. Inej grabbed his hands and squeezed.
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They passed through the mouth of the wolf and up the stairs, and [the guards] dragged her down the walkway through the corridor with its giant glass enclosure. Nina had translated the banner for her: Fjerdan might. She’d smirked at that the first time she’d passed, gazing down at the tanks and weapons, one eye on Kaz and the others on the opposite walkway. She’d wondered what kind of men needed to display their strength to helpless captives in chains.
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Jesper’s head appeared, hanging down from the dome. “You letting me drive?” “If you insist.” She moved aside so he could climb behind the controls. “Oh, hello, darling,” he said happily. He pulled another lever, and the armored wagon seemed to shudder to life around them, belching black smoke. What kind of monster is this? Inej wondered. “That noise!” she cried. “That engine!” cackled Jesper.
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Hardness: is a measure of its ability to withstand being scratched, cut or dented. Toughness: is a measure of how much energy is required to break a material when it's hit by something. Brittleness:  a brittle material is one which  fractures with little or no deformation. A brittle material under tension can break suddenly and without warning.
Properties of materials
See the issue? Being difficult to scratch doesn't make the material hard to crack. Let's get collectively disappointed by diamonds:
Unlike hardness, which denotes only resistance to scratching, diamond's toughness or tenacity is only fair to good. Toughness relates to the ability to resist breakage from falls or impacts. Because of diamond's perfect and easy cleavage, it is vulnerable to breakage. A diamond will shatter if hit with an ordinary hammer.
So no surprise a material likened to diamonds shatters after a single shot.
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They have wooden door, where they regularly walk their prisoners?
Why use flammable material, that can be splintered, when they could easily replace it with metal or some more durable Grisha materials?!
It's still a prison right next to the seat of Royal family!
And it gets worse:
!!!
One thing is cold weapons, but letting loaded guns lying around- including a fucking tank (which might be an older type, but still should be fairly new technology)!
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Okay but like... cutting diamonds is a difficult, delicate work, isn't it? They have their own structure, there might be impurities etc.
Either you want me to believe Jesper is some ordinary, inexperienced, unskilled Fabricator, or you expect me to believe he's able to work metal and fucking strictly-diamond carbon precisely, in a matter of minutes max.
“Did you manage to get hold of a big enough diamond?” Jesper asked. Inej nodded and slipped the massive jeweled choker from her sleeve. “Hurry,” she said. “If Heleen hasn’t noticed it’s missing, she will soon.” Though with Black Protocol in effect there wasn’t much she could do about it. Jesper snatched the choker from Inej’s hand, mouth agape. “Kaz said we needed a diamond. He didn’t tell you to steal Heleen Van Houden’s diamonds!” “Just get to work.” Kaz had given Inej two objectives: nab a big enough diamond for Jesper to work with and get herself into this corridor after eleven bells. There were plenty of other diamonds she could have stolen for their purposes and other trouble she could have made to attract the guards’ attention. But it was Heleen she’d wanted to dupe. For all the secrets she’d gathered and documents she’d stolen and violence she’d done, it was Heleen Van Houden she’d needed to best. And Heleen had made it easy. During the scuffle in the rotunda, Inej had made sure that she was too focused on being choked to worry about being robbed. After that, all of Heleen’s attention had been devoted to gloating. Inej only regretted that she wouldn’t be there to see Tante Heleen discover her prized necklace was missing.
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While I love this turn of events for Inej, there's no visible sign of it before this moment even in Inej's chapters.
We see the plot from the characters' POV, we're literally inside their heads during their chapters, yet up until this point we had no idea any of this is a part of the plan. We didn't know Inej got a special task. We didn't know she's looking for something among the guests. We sure as hell had no idea she's stringing Heleen along, or that the woman is likely to seek her out so soon.
But how do we get out? Once we trigger Black Protocol, you guys will be trapped on that island, and we’ll be trapped in the outer circle. We have no weapons and no demo materials.” Kaz’s grin was sharp as a razor. “Thank goodness we’re proper thieves. We’re going to do a little shopping—and it’s all going on Fjerda’s tab. Inej,” he said, “let’s start with something shiny.”
... aaaand cut!
I understand this is an effort to make the pacing more movie-like, but since the above mentioned applies, there should be at least a hint Inej got what she wanted, although perhaps not the way she planned.
Keep it vague if you need The Revelation to remain a surprise, but this total omission makes it both clumsy and it looks as if Inej were a robot, who can simply switch off a part of her mind and not think about what she's doing. What's the purpose of her actions.
The guards dragged Inej through the courtyard, past gaping onlookers, and out the ringwall gate as the bells continued to toll. They did not bother with gentleness or diplomacy now. Inej didn't mind. She knew what's in store for her as she reached for Heleen's neck, and she got what she wanted anyway. “I told you you’d wear my silks again, little lynx,” Heleen called from the courtyard. The gate was already lowering, as the guards sealed it in accordance with Black Protocol. “You’ll hang in them now.” The gate slammed closed, but Inej could swear that she still heard Heleen’s laughter.
There's only one mention of diamonds before the chapter, where Inej conjures them out of her pocket:
Nina squinted down through the glass. “How does she[Tante Heleen] keep from collapsing under the weight of those diamonds? They can’t possibly be real.” “Oh, they’re real,” said Inej. Those jewels had been purchased with the sweat and blood and sorrow of girls like her.
... but again- it's not specified the girls are talking about her choker. One would even expect some sewed-on gems for an occasion like this.
To sum up, there's such a thing as equivocation due to various characters' limitations both in amount of knowledge and understanding, then there's such a thing as hiding convenient pieces of information from the reader, when all of the characters should be informed, therefore unlikely to avoid thinking about said details.
The mortar struck the glass, shattering it into thousands of glittering pieces. Prettier than diamonds, Inej marveled, hoping that Wylan and Jesper had found time and space to take cover. She waited for the dust to clear, her ears ringing badly. The glass wall was gone. All was still. Then two ropes attached to the walkway rail swung down, and Wylan and Jesper followed: Jesper like a limber insect, Wylan in stops and starts, wiggling like a caterpillar trying to make its way out of a cocoon. “Ajor!” Inej shouted in Fjerdan. Nina would be proud.
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