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1. Acts of Good Faith by sciathan_file

   Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   26 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov
   • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova
   • Alina Starkov
   • Zoya Nazyalensky
   • Nikolai Lantsov
   • Genya Safin
   • Mal Oretsev
   • Baghra (The Grisha Trilogy)
   • Ulla (The Language of Thorns)
   • Alternate Ending - Ruin and Rising
   • Darklina - Freeform
   • They're toxic your honor
   • bored immortals playing political chess across centuries
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • aleksanderxpolitics otp
   • book!Darkling characterization
   • Ben Barnes' soulful eyes are not here
   • except for that one part
   • mostly book canon
   • with some show thrown into the blender
   • apologies to the russian language
   • and some others - Freeform
   • the slow corruption of Alina Starkova
   • POV The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • POV Alina Starkov
   • Let's throw in some random elements from the Nikolai Duology!
   • Demon in the Woods Spoilers
   • Spoilers for The Language of Thorns
   • the slowest burn
   • like centuries of gently banked embers
   • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova is Bad at Feelings
   • Baghra haunts them all

   Summary

   For one startling moment, Aleksander Morozov holds the entire sun in the palms of his hands. Then, in the singularly most selfish moment of his long, long life, he lets it go.

   He spends several centuries grappling with the implications of that moment.

   An AU of the end of Ruin and Rising.

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