Nina is selected by Kaz Brekker to join his mission to kidnap and retrieve Bo Yul-Bayur from the Ice Court. Nina accepted and began working at the House of the White Rose as a member of the Dregs. She was originally approached by Pekka Rollins and invited to join the Dime Lions, but Kaz sent Inej Ghafa to recruit Nina to the Dregs instead. Nina stayed in Ketterdam instead of returning to Ravka because she wanted to get Matthias out of Hellgate. Matthias was condemned to imprisonment at Hellgate. Nina tried to recant the charges, but couldn't without compromising Ravkan Grisha intelligence operations. In accordance with Kerch law, Matthias and Nina were brought to Ketterdam. There were Grisha undercover in Elling who planned to take Matthias prisoner and bring him to Ravka for interrogation and execution, and while Nina did not trust Matthias not to go after the Grisha, she didn't want Matthias to die either. She surrendered Matthias to the Kerch in an attempt to protect him, but Matthias did not know this at the time. In Elling, Nina told a Kerch trader that Matthias was a slaver who had captured her. When Nina nearly fell into an ice crevasse, Matthias saved her life. Though they argued and bickered, they became allies, if not friends.
They found an abandoned whaling camp and spent the night, then stuck together for three weeks as they traversed the Fjerdan landscape.
Matthias also survived the initial shipwreck, and Nina saved Matthias's life with her Heartrender abilities and kept them both warm through the freezing water as they swam to shore. Nina managed to cut her bonds and those of the other imprisoned Grisha using the broken water cup from Matthias, thereby escaping their cages. One night, the ship experienced a massive storm. Matthias spoke with Nina one time and gave her a tin cup filled with water to drink. Nina was put in a cage and experienced grueling treatment and mocking at the hands of the drüskelle guards, who included Jarl Brum. She pretended to be a lost Kaelish girl, but the drüskelle saw through her disguise and captured her and took her aboard a ship with other captured Grisha. While in the Wandering Isle on a mission with Zoya Nazyalensky, Nina wandered into a camp of Fjerdan drüskelle, including Matthias Helvar. She was forced to cut her lessons short to start her training with the Second Army early, since they were low on soldiers. Before the Ravkan civil war, Nina attended school at the Little Palace before all of the children were evacuated to Keramzin. One day, she found out that she could make them suffer by using her newfound powers, and she went to school at the Little Palace soon afterward. However, she was bullied by Tomek and his other friends. As a child, Nina grew up in an orphanage, where she appointed herself the home's official greeter and was loved by the staff.
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