Laura turned around only to see the Queen's men drag her brother away. She dashed toward him, but the guards stopped her with their spears. "back off, or we'll have to tie you to the post."

Marcus scrunched up his face trying to forget the memory of the night before. He could see it in his memory; the smoke, the fire. It gave him chills down his spine and a horrid lump in his throat. Marcus remembered peering into Grace’s window just before the house collapsed. The police had told him no one had survived. Grace’s parents were dead and so was Grace.