Lady Tigeress- I'm glad you are enjoying it. I'm curious as to what suspicions you have, but am kind of glad that you didn't say, so it didn't impair my own thoughts of what will happen. I'm glad you like the ending of the chapter before last. I kind of thought that was right. I put that in there because of her family history you are never going to know which side she was on. Thanks for reviewing.
Bama- I'm glad you love it. Thanks for taking time to reveiw. I hope you didn't get caught and punished.
pushpitake- I know it isn't as dark as the others, I'm afraid that the pink fluff bunnies of doom are massing for an attack on this piece. I thought I had sacrificed enough of my other stories to appease them, but obviously not. there will defiantly be action in this one. My brother would like to add at this point that there is no sensation like letting people build up a false sense of security before ripping it out under your feet. Thanks for reviewing.
Author's Note: This may be the last chapter I put out for a while, as I am abridging a play which I will be co-directing over the summer. It probably will take a week to two weeks. I don't know if I'll get a chapter out while I'm abridging. Thank you for your continuing support and I am sorry for the delay.
Chapter 9
Well, I have bad news, very bad news, and not exactly good news. I'll start with the bad news, shall I? I'm engaged. I know, I know most girls would be thrilled, but I'm not. It's not a willing thing. It seems that the government decided that it wasn't doing enough to ruin all of the lives of the citizens who are forced to live under it's degrading rule, so it made a law that states that all unmarried girls who are fifteen and up and unmarried boys who are seventeen and up must marry the person designated by the government by the time the year is up. So I'm engaged. To make it worse I'm engaged to prince Trowa of Karinos, which is a newer kingdom on the border of what once was Russia. I've never even met the guy and I'm going to be forced to marry him. There is a good side to this law however, and that is that people are starting to realize that the government is not perfect. I'm to meet my betrothed in five days and we'll be married soon after unless this insane law is destroyed.
The very bad news is that the government somehow has found out that there is another wave of the Rebellion around. They've already started looking for us, and indeed have caught one of our patrols. They aren't positive about what they have, so our patrol is only in a minimum security prison. I thank Heaven above that they aren't as trigger happy as they use to be. Another three of our members have been taken for the black market slave trade. I know that you are probably thinking that slavery is illegal, and it is, but the government overlooks the fact that it's still around, mostly for the fact the many government members have slaves themselves.
The not exactly good news is that since I will be marrying a prince I will become a public figure. It will be very difficult to carry on leading the Rebellion secretly when every thing I do will be observed. And the prince will most likely be on the side of the government, how will I manage to explain my disappearances? I refuse to give up going on missions just because I will be a princess.
I promised to tell you what went on in the counsil today. I might as well just report the happenings of my day. When I woke up I found a letter from the government waiting for me. You don't know how worried that made me, I was so frightened that the government had found out about us. Instead it was worse, it informed me of my engagement. I had breakfast with the counsil, an informed them of the letter I had just received. In fact I didn't have to tell many of them, as most of them had received similar letters. We went on to discuss the proper day to take over the government, and the how and why and wherefores of the subject when a runner (one of our level nine spies, who also are sometimes used as errand boy and girls) told us that the government had found out about us. He had just received the message and had been ordered to tell us. We released the poor boy who was so nervous about being around us. We discussed this problem and possible solutions. There are no possible solution that we can think of that is feasible that won't hurt anyone. We took a break, where the conversation turned to who was to marry who, and how did they think the public would react to this idiotic law. This is where we figured out the third problem. After lunch we discussed the problems a little more before closing.
I said before that the public was not thrilled about this newest law, I found out about that during dinner. Every television in the cafe flashed to an emergency news bulletin each showing the havoc being wreck by the upset betrothed teens and their unhappy and frustrated parents. I love what happens when the government pushes teenagers too far. Adults are far more tolerant of being pushed to the breaking point than teenagers.
I am part of the team assigned to try to recapture our three missing members that were kidnapped by the slave traders. At least it will be easier than it was the only other time that this happened the was recorded. Back then the government supported the slavery system, and "stealing" back our members would have been next to impossible, between the slavers security and the government's protection.
We have three major problems and we need to fix them as soon as humanly possible. I wonder if assassination would do the trick...
Nah, it would never work.
I'm going to sign out now, I'll report back after the meeting with my betrothed. I'll fill you in on what happened on the mission and with my husband to be then. Your Friend with extremely frazzled nerves, Relena Kushrenada.
Bama- I'm glad you love it. Thanks for taking time to reveiw. I hope you didn't get caught and punished.
pushpitake- I know it isn't as dark as the others, I'm afraid that the pink fluff bunnies of doom are massing for an attack on this piece. I thought I had sacrificed enough of my other stories to appease them, but obviously not. there will defiantly be action in this one. My brother would like to add at this point that there is no sensation like letting people build up a false sense of security before ripping it out under your feet. Thanks for reviewing.
Author's Note: This may be the last chapter I put out for a while, as I am abridging a play which I will be co-directing over the summer. It probably will take a week to two weeks. I don't know if I'll get a chapter out while I'm abridging. Thank you for your continuing support and I am sorry for the delay.
Chapter 9
Well, I have bad news, very bad news, and not exactly good news. I'll start with the bad news, shall I? I'm engaged. I know, I know most girls would be thrilled, but I'm not. It's not a willing thing. It seems that the government decided that it wasn't doing enough to ruin all of the lives of the citizens who are forced to live under it's degrading rule, so it made a law that states that all unmarried girls who are fifteen and up and unmarried boys who are seventeen and up must marry the person designated by the government by the time the year is up. So I'm engaged. To make it worse I'm engaged to prince Trowa of Karinos, which is a newer kingdom on the border of what once was Russia. I've never even met the guy and I'm going to be forced to marry him. There is a good side to this law however, and that is that people are starting to realize that the government is not perfect. I'm to meet my betrothed in five days and we'll be married soon after unless this insane law is destroyed.
The very bad news is that the government somehow has found out that there is another wave of the Rebellion around. They've already started looking for us, and indeed have caught one of our patrols. They aren't positive about what they have, so our patrol is only in a minimum security prison. I thank Heaven above that they aren't as trigger happy as they use to be. Another three of our members have been taken for the black market slave trade. I know that you are probably thinking that slavery is illegal, and it is, but the government overlooks the fact that it's still around, mostly for the fact the many government members have slaves themselves.
The not exactly good news is that since I will be marrying a prince I will become a public figure. It will be very difficult to carry on leading the Rebellion secretly when every thing I do will be observed. And the prince will most likely be on the side of the government, how will I manage to explain my disappearances? I refuse to give up going on missions just because I will be a princess.
I promised to tell you what went on in the counsil today. I might as well just report the happenings of my day. When I woke up I found a letter from the government waiting for me. You don't know how worried that made me, I was so frightened that the government had found out about us. Instead it was worse, it informed me of my engagement. I had breakfast with the counsil, an informed them of the letter I had just received. In fact I didn't have to tell many of them, as most of them had received similar letters. We went on to discuss the proper day to take over the government, and the how and why and wherefores of the subject when a runner (one of our level nine spies, who also are sometimes used as errand boy and girls) told us that the government had found out about us. He had just received the message and had been ordered to tell us. We released the poor boy who was so nervous about being around us. We discussed this problem and possible solutions. There are no possible solution that we can think of that is feasible that won't hurt anyone. We took a break, where the conversation turned to who was to marry who, and how did they think the public would react to this idiotic law. This is where we figured out the third problem. After lunch we discussed the problems a little more before closing.
I said before that the public was not thrilled about this newest law, I found out about that during dinner. Every television in the cafe flashed to an emergency news bulletin each showing the havoc being wreck by the upset betrothed teens and their unhappy and frustrated parents. I love what happens when the government pushes teenagers too far. Adults are far more tolerant of being pushed to the breaking point than teenagers.
I am part of the team assigned to try to recapture our three missing members that were kidnapped by the slave traders. At least it will be easier than it was the only other time that this happened the was recorded. Back then the government supported the slavery system, and "stealing" back our members would have been next to impossible, between the slavers security and the government's protection.
We have three major problems and we need to fix them as soon as humanly possible. I wonder if assassination would do the trick...
Nah, it would never work.
I'm going to sign out now, I'll report back after the meeting with my betrothed. I'll fill you in on what happened on the mission and with my husband to be then. Your Friend with extremely frazzled nerves, Relena Kushrenada.