The other students discovered and captured three tiger cubs and prepared to lure the mother as they suspected she was the amplifier. Zoya also made sure Liliyana received the stipend given to the parents of Grisha students.Īt the age of thirteen, Zoya accompanied the Darkling and several older Grisha students on a trip to Tsibeya to search for the white tigers of Ilmisk, where an amplifier was suspected to be located. Starting on her first day at the Little Palace, Zoya began to learn combat, history, reading, as well as the Shu language. Afterward, Liliyana took Zoya away to embark on the journey to Os Alta, where Zoya immediately began her training in the Little Palace. Before he could deal the killing blow, however, the upset and cornered Zoya's Grisha powers emerged, a vast gust of wind striking Grankin and destroying the church. However, Grankin began to hit Liliyana repeatedly with a walking stick, nearly beating Zoya's aunt to death. When the day of Zoya's wedding arrived, Liliyana appeared in the chapel, demanding that Valentin Grankin stop the marriage and blaming the gathered spectators for doing nothing to impede the ceremony. Liliyana accused Sabina of selling her own child, and the argument was overheard by Zoya soon, Sabina banished Liliyana from her house.

īefore the ceremony, Zoya's aunt Liliyana arrived from Novokribirsk in order to dissuade Sabina from proceeding with the wedding. As she wanted to be a soldier before her Grisha powers manifested.

Zoya agreed to the arrangement so as not to displease her mother, despite having no desire to be wed. Sabina capitalized on Zoya’s looks and planned to wed her off to Valentin Grankin, a wealthy widower of the same village, when Zoya was nine years old. She painstakingly sought her distracted mother's affections by studying hard in her lessons, eating only half of her meals to share the rest with Sabina, and even going as far as to steal peaches from a duke's estate for her mother. Zoya was born in a small Ravkan village, Pachina, to Sabina Garin and her husband, Suhm Nabri.

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