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glanced over with solid black eyes. “The city is full of people. I couldn’t be sure where they are.”
    “Should you climb up to get a better look?” Troy asked.
    I let out a long breath and started to slow on my horse. “It’ll probably be easiest but this could take all night. I don’t want to be doing this during the day. Maybe we’ll just find some dark alley to slip into and leave the horses out here for now so we know it’s safe. We’ll be able to walk the streets easier.”
    “You think so?” Darius asked.
    “As long as we take off our gear that says who we are. They should have been back for a week if they went nonstop. That means they had to have told them something.”
    “Like we’re dead.” Troy muttered.
    “Exactly. If they’re back then we must be. They wouldn’t guess that we’d be walking around.”
    “Okay. Then we’ll keep moving. Find the spot then call us.”
    I nodded and got down off of my horse.
    “Wait.” Troy said.
    “What?”
    His eyes were directed through the trees at the wall. “Who does that look like to you?”
    I turned my head, trying to see well enough and noticed movement on top of the wall. Someone was laying up there with one leg bent up over the other and long brown hair was hanging over the edge.
    “Adele.” I was full with a deep sign of hope.
    “Hold on.” Darius cut in, hopping off his horse to stop me from proceeding forward. “You don’t know that it’s her. I’m sure she’s not the only brunette in the city.”
    “It has to be.” I wanted it to be more than ever and got the confirmation I needed.
    “Adele!” A loud voice echoed her name off in the distance from over the wall and my eyes widened, shooting them back at Darius and Troy.
    Troy laughed while he got off his horse. “Well, that’s lucky. We stopped just in time.”
    “Shh!” I snatched. We stayed where we were and listened to the voices from the wall.
    “I know!” Adele shouted back with a long sigh. “I’ll be there, father. Don’t worry.”
    “I’m not worried.” Said the General’s voice in a more calm tone from the ground just on the other side of the wall. “Just more concerned. It’ll be good for you. You need to get out, be around people. You’ve been locked up in here for a week. People are starting to talk.”
    “Then let them. It doesn’t bother me.”
    “No, it bothers me. Now, get down from there. I’m leaving now and you need to get ready and do the same. I have a lovely gown on its way for you.”
    Adele sighed again and rubbed her face. “You mean I can’t just go naked and put an end to everyone’s disappointment?”
    “Of course not. Show some respect please and limit how much you open that mouth of yours. The Queen wants to see you and I will not have your attitude reflect on her behavior.”
    Adele sighed again and kept her laying position on the wall like she wasn’t going to be moving anytime soon. She used her defiant nature on everyone. “You wouldn’t be making me go to this thing if mother were alive.”
    “If your mother were alive, a lot of things wouldn’t be happening. Discussion over. Now get yourself ready. I hope to see you there promptly.” Adele silently saluted him as a gesture of sarcasm. “Adele! Please don’t do this right now! I don’t have time for your games! Get yourself ready!”
    She stayed exactly where she was and sighed as if his yelling hadn’t bothered her.
    “Trever!”
    I looked to those next to me when I heard him call his name and waited for the reply. “What happened?”
    “Talk some sense into her because I have to leave before I lose it!” The General’s loud stomping footsteps left them alone.
    “Oh, Adele, Adele, Adele.”
    “Go away.”
    “Just listen, all right?” Adele stayed exactly the way she was and didn’t say a word. “He doesn’t ask much of you. The least you could do is not fight with him over the things he does ask and put him in these moods.”
    “He never asked me.