[ She's too young and inexperienced to fully see and respect the gray resting between the black and white logic she tried to apply to most things. Her entire life has been 'us versus them', feeding into every aspect of her decisions, a refusal to accept anything less than an absolute. She couldn't think 10 years into the future, see the reasons behind why. Not when trust felt broken.
But in the immediate, she knew he was right. From her brief time here so far, the idea of Ravka had apparently been as foreign as the Fold. There was no time to feel the grief at the loss of Mal again, or to stubbornly stand her ground. He didn't have the same level of influence here that he had at home. If there was a time to fight for equal footing between them, this was it. They needed to talk about Novokribirsk before she agreed to anything. There was no Fold here to expand, but that didn't mean he was harmless. She didn't know if he could create another one, or what he was truly capable of right now. ]
That depends -- are you planning on murdering everyone here, too, if things don't go your way?
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But in the immediate, she knew he was right. From her brief time here so far, the idea of Ravka had apparently been as foreign as the Fold. There was no time to feel the grief at the loss of Mal again, or to stubbornly stand her ground. He didn't have the same level of influence here that he had at home. If there was a time to fight for equal footing between them, this was it. They needed to talk about Novokribirsk before she agreed to anything. There was no Fold here to expand, but that didn't mean he was harmless. She didn't know if he could create another one, or what he was truly capable of right now. ]
That depends -- are you planning on murdering everyone here, too, if things don't go your way?