“And he won’t find you here? You’d be imprisoned inside someone’s house. He’d just wait until you came out. You can’t stay inside forever.”
“Maybe. I’ll try to find something. Even Nayek has better things to do than wait for me to show myself.” There was this organisation called the Brotherhood of the Light that used to hide orphans who were Imperfect, back in the days when being Imperfect—and being able to use icefire—was considered a bad thing. Maybe they could still hide her.
But what about the workshop?
She could ask Jadan to take care of it.
Marek said that he needed to get some sleep, but that he’d accompany her to her room. Zaina went with him out the door into the misty night, past the hookers, around the side of the building and up the stairs to the floor above the meltery roo
