"Rules?" She scoffed, tossing hair over her shoulder. "I've been yanked from my home and forced into a game I never wanted to play, and I'm expected to 'prove myself'? If anything, they're the ones who ought to prove themselves to me - why I should trust them when this is their fault to begin with?"

Besides, "trust" was a fleeting and fragile thing, as she'd learned so harshly. One wrong move and it was shattered over the most innocuous of things.

"I'm ever so sorry I don't fit into your neat little categories... but a few card tricks and a decent sense of fashion won't change my mind."