I don’t want your prayers,” he said. “What do you want, then?” The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie’s voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You, Inej. You. He shrugged and turned away. “To die buried under the weight of my own gold.” Inej sighed. “Then I’ll pray you get all you ask for.”
for @chaseannbeth ♡
@sixofcrowsnet hunger games: kanej for lari @carstairsjames
“She’d laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
@sixofcrowsnet heist: foils
↳ kaz + inej
“I thought your Saints would appreciate the challenge.”
For a while she said nothing, then from somewhere behind him he heard her. “Men mock the gods until they need them, Kaz.”
He didn’t see her go, only sensed her absence.
I love how in Kaz and Inej’s relationship, it’s the subtle things that shows how much they care. Like how Kaz finds the guy that stabbed Inej and tortures him for information before throwing him over the side of a boat.
what a charmer
Kaz Brekker’s feelings for Inej Ghafa are so subtle! I wonder how anyone could even tell they’re there. His actions and words are so casual:
> i would physically drag my body to yours so i could save you
>i used the 4 million kruge that i’ve been saying is my sole motivation the last 1,000 pages to buy you a boat to kill slavers oh and also here is your long lost family so you don’t leave me to go to Ravka
>i made sure the business that enslaved you was conveniently destroyed
>oh also i paid off the rest of your debt that binds you to the dregs, even though i’m so full of self-loathing that i believe you wouldn’t stay with me for any other reason
>i will attempt to overcome my soul-crushing post-traumatic stress to kind of nuzzle your neck in this bathroom
A man of mystery, that brekker
@sixofcrowsnet heist: foils — kaz & inej
two tragic childhoods, two different stories. their clashing leaves blood in its wake.
he told her they would fight their way out. knives drawn, pistols blazing. because that’s what we do. she would fight for him, but she could not heal him. she would not waste her life trying.
I WILL HAVE YOU WITHOUT ARMOR, KAZ BREKKER. OR I WILL NOT HAVE YOU AT ALL.
“I’ll pray for him,” Inej said. “For peace in the next world if not in this one.”
They were sitting close together, their shoulders nearly touching. Her eyes were so brown they were almost black, and for once her hair was down. She always wore it tied back in a ruthlessly tight coil. Even the idea of being this near someone should have set his skin crawling. Instead he thought, What happens if I move closer?
“I don’t want your prayers,” he said.
“What do you want, then?”
sixofcrowsnw challenge: week one ≡ quote(s) for each ship [insp]
“Kaz leaned back. “What’s the easiest way to steal a man’s wallet?”
“Knife to the throat?” asked Inej.
“Gun to the back?” said Jesper.
“Poison in his cup?” suggested Nina.
“You’re all horrible,” said Matthias.”
@sixofcrowsnet heist: epilogue
She would have her ship and he would have his city.