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DARES AND BETS

PROLOGUE

The Tortallan gang (Neal, Owen, Merric, Alanna, George, Jon, Thayet, Numair, Daine, Dom, Roald and Cleon) were all in Neal's room talking, for lack of anything better to do.

"I'm royally bored!" Jon said.

"Do you think the rest of us aren't!" Thayet asked.

"I have an idea!" Neal said excitedly.

"Uh-oh, meathead has an idea, that can't be good!" Dom said mock-seriously.

Neal glared at his cousin, "well why don't we play a game?"

"A game?" George asked skeptically, "your games will probably cause us much sorrow, where as my games…" George flipped a dagger up into the air and caught it in his teeth.

"Show-off," Alanna muttered.

"Fine then!" Neal stuck out his bottom lip, "anyone else have any better ideas?"

"Yeh, I do!" George started juggling 5 of his daggers.

"NO!" everyone yelled at him in unison.

"All right! Well how about a betting game?" George suggested, "and I get to keep the ears," he whispered to Alanna.

"Yeh! All the men yelled.

"No!" Alanna and Thayet shrieked, "Betting is a guy's game!"

"Okay then," Merric, "what about…dares!" (Du-du-du-dun)

"I still like the betting game," George muttered sadly.

"Then lets combine them!" Thayet said enthusiastically.

"Yay!" everyone said.

"Jolly!" said (guess who!) Owen.

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-Tortall gal