Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (z-lib.org).mobi

taking up most of the room.
The coach jolted as we hit a bump.
“Is it safe?” I asked. “To be travelling at night?”
“No,” Fedyor said. “But it would be considerably more dangerous to stop.”
“Because people are after me now?” I said sarcastically.
“If not now, then soon.”
I snorted. Fedyor raised his eyebrows and said, “For hundreds of years, the
Shadow Fold has been doing our enemies’ work, closing off our ports, choking
us, making us weak. If you’re truly a Sun Summoner, then your power could be
the key to opening up the Fold – or maybe even destroying it. Fjerda and the Shu
Han won’t just stand by and let that happen.”
I gaped at him. What did these people expect from me? And what would they
do to me when they realised I couldn’t deliver? “This is ridiculous,” I muttered.
Fedyor looked me up and down and then smiled slightly. “Maybe,” he said.
I frowned. He was agreeing with me, but I still felt insulted.
“How did you hide it?” Ivan asked abruptly.
“What?”
“Your power,” Ivan said impatiently. “How did you hide it?”
“I didn’t hide it. I didn’t know it was there.”
“That’s impossible.”
“And yet here we are,” I said bitterly.
“Weren’t you tested?”
A dim memory flashed through my mind: three cloaked figures in the sitting
room at Keramzin, a woman’s haughty brow.
“Of course I was tested.”
“When?”
“When I was eight.”
“That’s very late,” commented Ivan. “Why didn’t your parents have you
tested earlier?”
Because they were dead, I thought but didn’t say. And no one paid much
attention to Duke Keramsov’s orphans. I shrugged.
“It doesn’t make any sense,” Ivan grumbled.
“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you!” I leaned forward, looking
desperately from Ivan to Fedyor. “I’m not what you think I am. I’m not Grisha.
What happened in the Fold … I don’t know what happened, but I didn’t do it.”
“And what happened in the Grisha tent?” asked Fedyor calmly.
“I can’t explain that. But it wasn’t my doing. The Darkling did something
when he touched me.”
Ivan laughed. “He didn’t do anything. He’s an amplifier.”