[Prose: A chance meeting]

Lately, after her most recent conversation with Janet and Laertes, Nina has been on the lookout for The Darkling - even though Laertes even more recently gave her a firm but kind warning to not endanger herself. It's just that she's never talked to him before meeting him here, only seen him from a distance when they were evacuating Keramzin. When she sees him in the library, she doesn't turn away. She pauses at the door instead.

A moment of bravery takes over. "I know who you are," she says. She's tamed her Ravkan accent a little from speaking with everyone else in the mansion and she's also dressed more modern than she they first met - but she is clearly the girl that he knows as "Mila".

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