The Rebel by Sharon Green

Author:Sharon Green [Green, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

When Adair saw the tables being set up around the visiting room, she realized that someone had decided to serve a buffet lunch right there. It wasn’t all that bad an idea, she decided, not when even more people -including Nallis - had come to hear Lethan’s story.

Right now Adair stood a couple of steps away from the girls who had unexpectedly become her friends, aware of the fact that Lisni and the others hadn’t disturbed her brooding on purpose. They seemed to know that her father had used her weakness against her, the weakness of wanting a father who could be believed. She needed some time to get past the realization that she never would have a father like the one she used to dream about, and only then would she be able to associate with people normally again.

Once the food warmers with their underneath candles had been set up along the table against the back wall, another small table had been put to the right to hold stacks of plates for people to use. A couple of people had already gone over and taken plates, and now they headed for the warmers to see what they would choose for lunch. Oddly enough Adair felt the next thing to hollow, so she also made her way to the plate table ahead of a small group of people that included Nallis.

And then Adair glanced back to see the oddest thing. There was a servant standing to the left of the table, out of the way of those who wanted plates. The man just watched as various people, including Adair, chose their plates, but when Adair glanced back she saw that when it became Nallis’s turn the servant handed him a plate, one from somewhere other than the handiest stack. Granted, Nallis was a prince in his father’s palace, but Nallis had been reaching for a different plate before the servant handed him one. If being given special treatment was something to be expected, Nallis would not have been about to take his own plate.

But Nallis was too involved with laughing and joking with the people around him to notice the oddity, and no one else seem to notice either. If not for the attack on Lethan earlier Adair probably would have dismissed the oddity, but Lethan had been attacked by an assassin. That meant Adair hesitated not at all before she turned and pushed through the advancing crowd of people to stop in front of the prince.

“Nallis, wait a minute,” she said, seeing the look of surprise on the prince’s face. “Before you use that plate you were just given, you might want to take a really close look at it. It didn’t come from –”

A scream of frustration suddenly sounded from the servant who stood by the table about ten feet away, and the next instant the man had a long dagger in his hand and was in the midst of running directly toward Nallis. Everyone stood frozen in shock, everyone, that is, but Adair.

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