"Oh, I'm not staying for a few months," she laughs incredulously.

After spending a week or so in purgatory within the Unsea with Juris, Elizaveta and Grigori while Genya, Tolya and Isaak had to hold down the fort in Os Alta, Zoya has no intentions of lingering. They're going home.

The fact that he's even entertaining the idea that she'd stay… Zoya wants to believe it's an easy exit out of Thorne and out of this rather odd obligation.

"We need to get back to Ravka."