Malum POV "She is going to ba angry," my little sister Honestus said. "Very, very angry." "I didn't break any rules," I replied. "I even spoke in stupid half rhymes and now we might finally be allowed to leave this place." "She'll just send us somewhere else. Probably worse. In fact, after what you pulled today, I'd imagine somewhere a lot worse." "Our job was to watch and protect the girl so she could make her own choice. How am I in any way stopping her? I'm just lining the candidates up in front of her. She makes a choice and the queen's debt is paid." "We were told to watch and only get involved if it was for the girls' protection." "Yes, but the queen left and put an imbecile in charge. He was easy to manipulate. And now freedom is in our sight. We were never going to break our

