"I am, after all, a trained actress," she says, dropping into a small curtsy. "Not professionally trained -- but I had to be in order to survive the streets of Ketterdam. If you give people the you that they want, they bother you a lot less."

Pretending to be a ditzy tourist in order to avoid other gangs that might want to bother her for her involvement with the Dregs, demurely walking past creepy older men so they left her alone when all she wanted was to glare at them, her holy and solemn persona in the House of the White Rose where men came to see Nina the Ravkan Grisha; all of that was her training.