#she does claim liliyana as family but that surname has bad associations too

[stormlit]

no thoughts just the fact that nazyalensky isn't a name zoya got from her parents, it must be one she chose for herself, and probably the day she went to the little palace and they asked her name, with the first two letters of her father's surname (and one assumes the name she was given at birth) and then the most ravkan ending she could come up with. she wanted to fit in, more than anything, to not be the suli girl but a grisha; she wanted distance from the parents she disowned, the cruel mother who sold her nine year old and the apathetic father who let it happen, people she didn't claim as family.