***This story is based on Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Mass*** (Credit to the Author)

The Glass Sword

Prologue – 18/4/1254

"I am Rose Faelin, and I will not be afraid." "I will not be afraid…, I will not be afraid" I say to myself again and again. I will survive this, I must. No one can know my secret, no one at all. Not even my closest friends and family know, at least not yet anyway. They all think I'm the perfect lady, but boy are they wrong. I'll probably never see them again. I'll die down here, just like the rest of them.

24/8/1254

"It's been 4 months since they invaded my home and shoved me out the door and into this hell hole. I haven't seen my family since the night of the attack.

My family is poor, so are most of the families in Wallow. We all have our own way of surviving, but I chose the easiest way. Also the most dangerous one. All things I do to survive in these slums are against the law. The things I do to keep myself alive are the easy ones. It's looking after your family that are the hard ones.

I am the only 15 year old girl who didn't have a job. Most people get jobs at the age of 8, even if it's just chimney cleaning.

I'm the eldest of 6 children in the family. There are my 4 younger brothers and my little sister Kate. Nate, Fin and Simon are all triplets, and have just recently turned 6. My other brother Johnny is the 7 year old devil on the street, everyone is either afraid of him or just wants to completely kill him for what he's done to them. No one actually knows what Johnny did but it's apparently too bad for anyone to talk about it. Then there's my sister Kate. People say she's the perfect daughter that anyone could ever want, she's already past her test with flying colors and got an amazing job working for the higher up families.

The test is something that everyone had to take at their 8th birthday. It's where you have to complete in a series of trials that the Covert set up to decide how your future plays out.

I never did my trial. I was never even classified as alive until a few years back. The Covert have set out to find me ever since.

I don't live with my family, in fact I don't even live in the same city as them.

*How Aelin got where she is will be explained in the first actual chapter*

Thank you so much for reading my very first Fanfic.

Sorry it's terrible, I expect to get better over the time.

This chapter/prologue is going to be the worst out of all of them because it's kinda just setting the scene and everything.

Thank you again for reading this and I hope you continue to read the rest of them.

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Thanks

-Tilly