SPOILER FOR THIS CHAPTER, but please read: Someone will die in this chapter, so if you're not a fan of death, don't read ahead. And yes, it will be one of the Selected. Sorry. It just sort of seemed right to have a tragedy that everyone could mourn together. So I offer my immense apologies to the creator of this Selected girl!

"Run!"

That was all Kiryn heard as he, Amber, and Jasmine ran for the safe chamber. Of course, you didn't need to know a lot of political junk to understand what was happening. Rebels.

They ran past the guards defending them. They ran and joined up with the ladies Isobella and Ansley. However, Lady Saylor was nowhere to be seen.

"Saylor!" Jasmine called to her new friend when Saylor was finally found. Lady Saylor waved her hands and nodded, alerting them that she had seen them, and was making her way towards the small group when a bullet passed through her head.

Jasmine screamed, Amber gasped and Isobella sobbed. Ansley was about to run to the place where Saylor had fallen before Kiryn pulled her back. "Don't," he told her. "You can't save her. Help save yourself and the rest of us."

Ansley nodded, almost crying. "She and I are–were," she corrected herself, "good friends. Saylor wouldn't want to die in vain." So in the name of Saylor Margret Hide, they kept running for the safe room.

Once inside, Isobella and Ansley hugged and cried together. Jasmine looked as if she was contemplating joining the two, while Amber was making her way towards Kiryn after making sure their parents were okay. They were, if a little shocked.

"How can someone just do that?" Amber slid onto Kiryn lap and he wrapped his arms around her, which was something they hadn't don't since Kiryn was about eight. "Just take a life like…that?" She snapped her fingers to emphasize her point.

"They've been deprived," Kiryn soothed her. "They don't understand the difference between good and bad. Pity them, don't hate them."

Personally, Kiryn knew the rebels knew the difference perfectly well. Also, Kiryn did hate the rebels. Not just for Saylor, but for all the countless other lives they had taken, his grandma's friend Celeste being one of them. He had to stay awake. But he couldn't. So within the midst of crying girls and parents in shock, Prince Kiryn Schreave fell asleep. And no, this isn't a joke.

•••

There were a thousand people at Saylor's funeral. Some to support the lower castes, some to support Saylor, some to see the palace, and the rest to support their daughter, friend, or sister.

Jasmine started off with her memories of Saylor. "I had just met Saylor a week ago, but I could tell she was very loyal to her friends and family. Kiryn had originally introduced her to me because he thought we were incredibly alike and I'm sure that many of you who knew both of us would agree. She was loyal, funny, and the best friend you could have. I feel blessed to have known Saylor and I know that I'll never forget her." Jasmine sat down and there was a polite applause for their speech.

Everyone else that knew Saylor eventually came up and spoke about their own memories. The gist of it was that Saylor was a very loved, crazy, and loyal person that would remembered for their whole lives. Kiryn thought some people had overdone their speech, but overall, the effect helped him soothe his grief. In the end, Kiryn agreed with Jasmine. Saylor Margret Hide was someone he would never forget.