Matthias awakens next to Nina and jumps to his feet, claiming that he can't wait to be back in his own bed, but Nina would beg to differ. "You're welcome, you big idiot," she says in Matthias' native tongue. She places her hand over his chest and warms his body before resting. Matthias relents and snuggles up behind Nina, who details how Matthias is cold and clammy like a squid. She offers to help keep him warm but only if he undresses as well. They arrive at a lodge in a deserted whaling camp, where Nina proceeds to undress from her cold and wet clothes to keep warm. Nina and Matthias wash up on shore and search for shelter, though they are unsure exactly where they have landed. Admittedly, they need each other: Matthias' strength to swim to shore and Nina's Grisha powers to keep the two of them warm. He pushes away and falls into the water, accusing Nina of being a trickster. She uses her abilities to save his life, which he is less than grateful for. Nina manages to escape her shackles and find refuge on a sheet of deck wood along with an unconscious Matthias. The ship headed for Fjerda with Grisha captives is shipwrecked. Nina reluctantly takes a bite only to spit it in Matthias's face. Still, Matthias offers her a bite of food. Matthias then asks Nina about the Darkling, but she would rather starve than be a traitor.
Nina explains that Heartrenders can also soothe tempers and calm those in pain. All he knows for certain is that they're enemies and that Heartrenders such as herself use magic to stop hearts. It becomes clear to Nina that Matthias and the drüskelle know very little in the ways of the Grisha. He admits that he needed answers, asking if her parents are also Grisha and if she was born Grisha or became one by choice. Maybe not poison, Nina admits, but she suspects that Matthias at least wants something in return. When she accuses him of trying to poison her, he takes a bite to ease her suspicions.
While his comrades are distracted, Matthias brings Nina food to eat. Nina was under the impression that the drüskelle respected their women, to which Matthias replies that Grisha are not women. She then notices the bola hanging from his coat and realizes that he assisted in her capture. Nina questions just how many Grisha are ever found innocent by Fjerdan law, but Matthias Helvar doesn't reply.
Nina is shackled and placed in the lower deck of a ship with other Grisha prisoners bound for the Ice Court, where they will face trial. She attempts to fend off her attackers but is outnumbered and subdued. As she awaits the Conductor's arrival, Nina is attacked by the drüskelle - Fjerdan soldiers. Nina is held up at a boarding house in Novokribirsk, where she works with the Conductor to smuggle out deserters from the Little Palace. Her last report before being captured by the drüskelle was that she was crossing the Fold with the Conductor and three Grisha defectors from Ketterdam. Nina was tasked with finding those aiding in the escape of rogue Grisha from Ravka.
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