The Cruel Prince - Holly Black
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EnglishVoice Age
Teen (13-17)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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she gives me a look of deep concern. As a pixie boy newly indebted to Matic, braids her chestnut hair into a crown. She is sitting primly at her dressing table, clad all in brown and gold. Telling me not to go means I should. Whatever you're thinking. Stop. I know you're disappointed about the tournament. It doesn't matter, I say, although of course it does. It matters so much that now, without hope of knighthood, I feel like a hole has opened up under me and I am falling through it. Matic might change his mind. She follows me down the stairs, grabbing up our basket before I can, and at least now you won't have to defy Carden. I turn on her, even though none of this is her fault. Do you know why Matic won't let me drive for knighthood? Because he thinks I'm weak, Jude? She cautions. I thought I was supposed to be good and follow the rules, I say. But I am done with being weak. I am done with being good. I think I'm going to be something else. Only idiots aren't scared of things that are scary, Terrence says, which is undoubtedly true, but still fails to dissolute me. Skip lessons Today I tell her again, but she won't. So we go to school together.