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Rebel 1


Rebel
Chapter One
by Sharon Green
copyright 2004 by Sharon Green and ABCD Webmasters




Adair Cantlen sat on the floor of the dim cell, the torch light coming
through the barred door the only thing keeping complete darkness away. Not
that she particularly cared. She sat with her back against the stone wall,
her tights-covered legs bent at the knee, her wrists resting on those
knees. It had been at least an hour since she'd been thrown into the cell,
but Adair didn't care about that either. One place in that house was as
good or as bad as another, and as long as she had to be here it didn't
much matter where she was kept.

As had become usual over the years, she was being ignored. Young girls
were supposed to be demure and ladylike at all times, she'd been told, not
ridicule their lessons in proper behavior. When making fun of the nonsense
did no good, she'd tried to complain to her father, the duke. Duke Elden
had smiled and patted her on the head, hearing not a single word she said,
so she'd also stopped trying to complain.

Instead she'd made trouble every chance she had, but even that didn't get
anyone's attention. Most of the time her efforts were ignored, and when
she'd done something that couldn't be ignored her father took a whole
minute or so to inform her that decent young ladies didn't act in that
particular way.

She'd finally gotten sick and tired of being the family ghost - and
intended pawn - and had walked out with the intention of never coming
back, but even that wasn't acceptable. It took less than three days for
her father's guardsmen to track her down, and now she was right back where
she'd started. Alone and ignored…

The entire area of cells had been very quiet since the guards had closed
the barred door and left, but suddenly the sound of footsteps came to
destroy the silence. More than one set of footsteps, so either they were

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