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she both expects and doesn't expect the question. and the answer that inej has isn't particularly satisfying, that she has no idea. ravka isn't home to her, anymore. she has no real home, really. her home is her ship, and where her family is. which has always been true, to a certain extent. it isn't as if the suli have any real claim to their own land, anymore.

which is the sticking point, really. she remembers nina, and how crestfallen she had been when she had asked inej her thoughts of the new king, in the geldrunner. how stung she had been, when inej had told her the truth -- that no king of ravka had ever been kind to her people, and inej very much doubted the new one would be the same. she doesn't imagine alina would be so stung, to hear that. on one hand, they've only really now become friends -- not like nina, who inej knows loves her dearly. and on the other hand, alina seems to understand what it means to be used as a means to an end.

besides, she had told nikolai herself, how little she thought of him, and his monarchy, and his grand plans to save ravka. it meant nothing to her, so long as her people were still being sold on the coasts to slavers. little girls who didn't have the privilege of being powerful grisha or daughters of politicians or friends of the king. so nikolai can try all he wants; inej has no faith in people in power, anymore.

none of that really answers alina's question, though. ]