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"He was silent for a long moment and when I glanced at him, he was looking up at the glass ceiling. He'd gone red as a beet."

Mal. My cinnamon roll. What a cutie.

My heart.

I like Nikolai and the Darkling's characters. I love who they are. They are bright and vibrant and wonderful people.

But I don't ship them with Alina. Nikolai and the Darkling both love her for what she is. Mal loves her for who she is. No matter how flat he is, that makes him surpass the other two in my opinion.

Besides. Sorry Alina, but I'm putting dibs on those cuties. They're already taken.

"All right, little saint, since you want to know about Morozova and his precious amplifiers, I'll tell you a story - one I used to tell a little boy with dark hair, a silent boy who rarely laughed, who listened more closely than I realized. A boy who had a name and not a title."

-- so the Darkling is basically Tom Riddle?