The Dagger Society

Chapter 6

After meeting the rest of the scouts, Aria leads Marley and I to the back of the room. We walked through a door to a room, smaller than the training room but bigger than our bedroom. The walls were covered in maps and in the center of the room is a large wooden desk.

One huge map lays sprawled out on the desk. It's the same as the one Tyler was studying earlier. Certain spots were labeled and notes were scribbled and circled here and there.

Marley spins in circles as she looks at every single map. Aria walks behind the desk, "this is our map room." She smiles as she gazes at her hard work. Marley stops spinning and faces Aria, "You made all of these?" Looking back at Marley, "Yup took me a year to make them all." It's amazing how much work she puts into the Dagger Society. It's inspiring.

Aria sorts her papers and puts them in a nice, neat, stack on the left hand side of the desk. "Well I suppose that's it for the tour." Aria smiles, her bright teeth glinting with light reflecting off the lamp in the corner. She takes Marley's hand as she walks out the door. "Let's head to bed shall we. We've got a big day tomorrow."

And so we leave the room in single file behind Aria and up the rickety pathways towards our bedroom. We walk down the long corridor and discover that our rooms are just across from each other. We say our good nights and turn away and into our separate rooms. "Goodnight." We say to each other as we wave goodbye.

Inside me and Marley plop down onto our cots, ready for our first day of training. Marley falls asleep quickly, her arm hanging limp over her cot. I on the other hand can't seem to get a wink of sleep.

I think of tomorrow; I'm nervous but strangely excited. I realize I want to get revenge on the government for what they've done. My parents are dead because of them; or at least my father is. I gave up looking for mother many years ago; she's probably buried in a mass grave along with father and the rest of the victims of the rebellion.