Defiant (Camp NaNoWriMo April 2014)

What would you do if you suddenly became an outcast in your hometown without any explanation at all? In City 7.0.1 you’re only useful if you can provide a service to society. Seventeen year olds go through a week’s worth of testing to determine what jobs they’ll be suitable for in the near future and every year there’s a few students that’ll be considered for a seat on the council in charge of the city. They’re given an envelope listing these job matches at a formal ceremony at the end of Testing Week.
Felicity Hale’s future seems clear to everyone else but herself. Anyone who’s met her would agree that she’s the perfect candidate for the seat on the council. But when she’s given a blank piece of paper in her envelope instead of a list of job matches she is branded worthless by society. As an outcast she longs to find a place where she might be able to belong. What she doesn’t expect is that she’ll find it in a group of thieves that live underneath the city. Felicity thinks that the life of a thief will be simple but as she uncovers all of their secrets she realises that it’s not as straightforward as she’d hoped.

(This is a Camp NaNoWriMo story. Sorry for all the typos and mistakes you’ll come across whilst reading!)