“I’ve been waiting for you a long time, Alina,” he said. “You and I are going to change the world.”
Well, it's hard to talk about this line without getting into spoilers. But it appears twice more in the Grishaverse—in King of Scars and in Rule of Wolves. Okay, stop reading if this is your first time reading Shadow and Bone. Stop reading. You've been warned. Turn back now. SPOILER: Baghra does warn Alina that her son has had centuries to master manipulating gullible people and he will tell them what he needs to in order to achieve his goals. Even so, sometimes the Darkling is so smart he games himself, and I think this is one of those moments. Yes, it's a line he's used before and he'll use again, but that doesn't mean he doesn't believe what he's saying is true. He's just a really thrilling character to write, always high drama but very precise. And I think I enjoy exploiting the gap between what he says and what he actually does.
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