lilredfawn:
“the stag had been showing me my strength - not...
“the stag had been showing me my strength - not just the price of mercy but the power it bestowed. and mercy was something the darkling would never understand. i had spared the stag’s life. the power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.” -shadow and bone pg. 344
just a 10 minute doodle (that totally doesn’t give alina or the book justice) but i needed to wind down and do some fanart after spending so much time on artwork for school for the past couple of weeks. so here’s to the lovely alina starkov whom i hold so dearly in my heart.
All I can say is that I love this. Truly. It’s Alina. It’s the story. It’s so deeply beautiful. I wish I could own an print of it.
(also, ten minute doodle?? what sorcery is this???)
