Another wasted opportunity of Grishaverse:
What if Alina's ability to resist a human amplifier were a teachable skill?
She was strong enough to suppress her powers for years, even when amplified by an ordinary (assumingly weaker) human amplifier, then resisted the Darkling- an immortal amplifier of great power- for a moment.
I was blind. The room was gone. Everything was gone. I cried out in terror as I felt the Darkling’s fingers close around my bare wrist. Suddenly, my fear receded. It was still there, cringing like an animal inside me, but it had been pushed aside by something calm and sure and powerful, something vaguely familiar. I felt a call ring through me and, to my surprise, I felt something in me rise up to answer. I pushed it away, pushed it down. Somehow I knew that if that thing got free, it would destroy me. “Nothing there?” the Darkling murmured. I realized how very close he was to me in the dark. My panicked mind seized on his words. Nothing there. That’s right, nothing. Nothing at all. Now leave me be! And to my relief, that struggling thing inside me seemed to lie back down, leaving the Darkling’s call unanswered. “Not so fast,” he whispered. I felt something cold press against the inside of my forearm. In the same moment that I realized it was a knife, the blade cut into my skin. Pain and fear rushed through me. I cried out. The thing inside me roared to the surface, speeding toward the Darkling’s call. I couldn’t stop myself. I answered. The world exploded into blazing white light.
Shadow and Bone- Chapter 3
Were she actually interested in how do her powers work, and how do her abilities fit into Grisha theory, or Saints-forbid how could she help other Grisha, we might've seen Alina improving such skill, then perhaps passing it on to other Grisha to better protect them from discovery. Every second counts, and if this gave a chance to a few individuals, then it's still a few dead/abused Grisha less.
