My teeth are chattering in my skull as Inej and I wait in the bar section of the inn, "is he always like this?" I ask breaking the silence "Kaz?" She moves her head to look at me and plays with a dagger in her hand "he is hard as nails and tougher then old leather but if he thinks you are worth his time he will protect you" she answers and raises an eyebrow at me "and he clearly believes you are" I shift awkwardly where I am sitting "and what do you think?" I ask and she slides her dagger into its holder "it's nice having another girl around" she says flashing me a grin. I am bouncing my leg up and down nervously waiting for the boys to get back with our disguises, the idea of having to hide in my own country makes me feel ill but if that is what I have to do to survive it is what I shall do. It just sucks.

"Nervous to see us?" a voice asks from behind me making me jump and I throw my hands out ready to protect myself before I see Jesper and Kaz standing there with clothes in their hands "Saints Jesper you scared me" I say lowering my hands, Jesper winks at me and replies "sorry sweetheart" and Kaz throws me some clothes "get changed" he says and we head upstairs to our private room.

I come out of the bathroom after changing and shift around uncomfortably in the shawl in Kerch style that surrounds my body, "is this seriously what women in Ketterdam wear?" I ask as I move towards the table where Kazans is flicking through papers, "some do and if its not to your taste we can acquire somethings more to your taste once we get to the other side of the Fold" Kaz says his voice smooth and yet full of hostility. I turn towards Jesper who is currently checking himself out in the mirror "you look fine Jespers" Inej says sneaking up on all of us, how is this woman so silent? Jesper scoffs and comes over to us "oh, I look more then fine" I playfully return his wink from earlier and straighten his collar "you look dashing Jesper" I compliment making his face light up.

"I made some edits to their papers" Kaz breaks in shattering our little piece of joy with business, "should be enough to get us through the checkpoint and onto the skiff" my heart leaps from my chest. The skiff, which Alina and Aleksander will be on and the idea of not being able to do anything makes me feel powerless even with this insane Grisha power. As he hands Jesper his one the other boy frowns and protests "no one is ever going to believe I'm that old" we all pull faces once we see the age written on the paper and Kaz retorts "tell yourself that" making me laugh and a ghost of a smile appears on his lips, Jesper snatches his papers and storms off, offended. Once standing Kaz hands me mine but before I can start walking he blocks me with his cane "if you think about betraying us Salem" the way he says my name is as though he is cursing me "I will personally see to it that the rest of your life is a living hell" I raise an eyebrow and push his cane out of my way before leaning closer to him although not too close and I whisper "sounds like fun" before walking off to join the others.

Waiting in line to get our papers checked I watch as Jesper tries not to move from foot to foot, a little bundle of energy trapped in an mortal body, "do you think this will work?" I whisper to him discreetly and he looks down at his shoes scuffling his feet "Kaz came up with the plan, it will work" he pauses "at least I think it will" this doesn't give me much confidence but we carry own anyway. When it gets to my turn my hands are shaking at the man at the table takes my papers, he scans through them quickly before looking up at me, he narrows his eyes for a second before looking back at the documents, he nods, stamps them and then waves me on. I try not to show how relieved I am until I am out of the mans view and Jesper slings his arm around my shoulder "I thought you were a goner there for a second" he says and I hit him on the chest playfully "so little faith?" I ask and Kaz comes up to join us after getting his papers scanned, "lets get on the skiff before someone spots us".

Once on the Skiff Kaz turns to us as everyone bustles around us getting things ready for going into the Fold, "right, people are probably going to recognise us if we stay above deck" he says briefly looking over at me, making me feel guilty even though I haven't done anything, yet, "so that is why we will go below deck, less chance of us getting spotted". No one argues as we follow the man down into the darkness below.

We sit waiting for the skiff to start going and Jesper turns to me and asks "you've been on one of these things before haven't you?" I nod my head putting my hands between my legs to warm them up "how do they work?" I unfold my legs and try to keep myself from shaking in the cold "Grisha Squallers use their winds to move us through the Fold, there is a little blue light on deck to keep us out of total darkness, its low so as not to attract the Volcra" I suck in a breath remembering the last time I was on one of these "and we don't want that" I add and Jesper and Inej visibly pale although Kaz doesn't seem to be affected. I wander what does scare this man made of stone? the skiff gives a jolt and Jesper catches me before I fall "here we go" Kaz says looking up at the ceiling above before moving to the other side of the room.