![]() ![]() Mare has limited time to obtain the money. Farley says she will help Mare and Kilorn escape conscription, ferreting them away to safety, for the price of two thousand Crowns. Will introduces Mare to Farley, the leader of an underground group called the Scarlet Guard. ![]() She decides to meet with Will Whistle, a member of the underground black market to see if he can offer help. Mare, herself having been arrested numerous times for petty crimes, knows her fate will soon be the frontlines as well. Mare’s best friend, Kilorn, is nearing the age of conscription when he must go off to fight. Her father is a heavily-disabled war veteran. Mare assists with money earned from pickpocketed items. Her sister Gisa is apprenticed to a seamstress and is the primary source of income for the family. ![]() Mare and her family, like most Reds, barely manage to scrape by. The Reds carry out most of the dirty work of the world, ruled over by elite Silver-blooded humans with special powers and ability. When the novel begins, Mare is a lowly peasant pickpocket of the Red-blooded class in the country of Norta. “Red Queen” is a young adult fantasy novel by Victoria Aveyard which follows how seventeen-year-old Mare Barrow’s discovery that she, a peasant-born Red, has the special powers of the elite ruling Silvers and changes the course of her country’s future. ![]()
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