Perhaps Zoya should try for a fake flicker of surprise to flash across her features, but she's never been much of an actress. She prefers to be a thunderclap, clear and evident and very much herself. He won't see any surprise or bafflement cross her features. She knows all of this already and more. It's better he knows it now; Zoya's never been very good at keeping up a lie when she's always preferred the truth.
Although, she does furrow her brows as she tries to recall one thing.
"What was it that you studied? Piracy or sailing?"
It's a very minor joke. The one thing she knows best about Nikolai is his love for the high seas, something she's never quite appreciated for herself (and never will—it ruins her hair).
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Perhaps Zoya should try for a fake flicker of surprise to flash across her features, but she's never been much of an actress. She prefers to be a thunderclap, clear and evident and very much herself. He won't see any surprise or bafflement cross her features. She knows all of this already and more. It's better he knows it now; Zoya's never been very good at keeping up a lie when she's always preferred the truth.
Although, she does furrow her brows as she tries to recall one thing.
"What was it that you studied? Piracy or sailing?"
It's a very minor joke. The one thing she knows best about Nikolai is his love for the high seas, something she's never quite appreciated for herself (and never will—it ruins her hair).