"Well, I think I'm the person I am because of my time there," she said with a shrug. "It was hard. Zoya made for a difficult critic, but." Nina shrugged and sank back with a little huff of breath.

"She'd have something to say about all this, I'm sure. Mostly about how silly I've been and how could I let this happen, it's an embarrassment to my training, et cetera."