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Behind The Scaffold By Alina Starkov

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A peasant orphan girl, Alina Starkov, who sketches maps of a region of darkness established as the Shadow Fold realizes she has the power to summon light. Moreover, she comes upon this while saving her best friend Mal from an onslaught by a flying beast in the Fold. Downstream, the Darkling, the head of the Grisha (beings that use the Small Science to gain magical powers), takes her with him to an academy where Grisha are trained and taught to use their magical powers. Here, Alina discovers how to use her ability to summon light and trains to be the only person in the world able to save Ravka from the darkness. In the future, you find out that the Darkling isn’t wanting to remove the Fold, but wield it as a weapon. Knowing this, Alina runs
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