Audrey didn't touch her tea.  Her mind was blazing too fast for her to do anything but think.  There had been others?  Other women who had hidden who they were and became knights?  Other women who had had a dragon?  Why couldn't she have been told this earlier, why did they have to wait for something terrible to happen before letting her know she could be a Rider?  She knows why, a piece of her is still indignant about it.  She could have been learning along side Jack and both of them could have attended together.<br/><br/>She had always felt bored with the possibilities her life offered.  To learn manners and dances, to court and marry and raise a family.  She had envied Jack and the right he had to run and climb trees and go fishing and most of all to have the lifelong friendship of a dragon.<br/><br/>The Marquise didn't have to ask Audrey what her response was.  She could read it in her eyes and in the slight smile that had crept onto her lips.