Chosen By The Moon (Dylan) novel Chapter 203

“I wouldn’t say the growing rebellion was because people were rallying behind me. I’m not a leader, how many times do I have to tell people that.” His head shook again in disagreement, why was he so adamant to get me to lead the masses.

“Your a natural leader, Riley. I’ve seen it first hand, you lead me to help you smuggle things into our district, you’re ideals have swayed more and more people to join the rebellion, and you setting fire to the stage in the district, lead sixteen districts to follow suit. You really don’t realize the impact you have on everyone around you.” Wait… back up, sixteen districts. I had no idea people were uprising like that.

“What do you mean?!” He didn’t say anything else straight away, he just flipped the volume up on the news channel and watched my face drop in shock. He was right, news footage was covering eight districts showing their whipping stage burning in split screens on the old television, and underneath a revolving bar of information was seen. It said clear as day that sixteen human districts so far had committed the arson.

“Holy shit!” I couldn’t contain my shock as I finally watched the new report. “You’re right!” I don’t think he was expecting me to agree with him straight away but he smiled when he saw my eyes begin to flare with an emotion that I assumed was lost to me. “I started that? I started that!”

I thought the king had broken me, I thought I was beyond repair, but I wasn’t. Every crack he had created in me suddenly began to heal as I watched eight separate fires burning on screen.