I drop down onto the small cot, still in a state of bewilderment about the fact this is our room. I thought they"d at least split up the male and female Defenders, but that doesn"t seem to be the case.
A small part of me is glad that means I don"t have to share a room with the four other young women who survived the Dragon Duels. I don"t know any of their names and haven"t really spent any time with them. I suppose that now we"re not all locked in an arena trying to survive, it"s time to change that.
I push a strand of pale blue hair out of my face.
Will they even give me the time of day? I"m the only contestant from the city to have gotten this far, and Cobalt says that"s rare in itself. Maybe they"ll think I cheated or something like that.
"You"re Raine, right?" a girl asks as if ans
