"No, it is not." The emotions start to fade and the usual unconquerable facade came back. He took her hand and held tight to it; confident and sympathetic. "We were thrown into a prison that was supposed to be torture. Even that I have turned into a kingdom where they can thrive."

He smiles a little more nodding at her comment about a lost home. "I think that is what it means to be a rebel. It is not fighting against authority or being counter to everything. Being the rebellious one is the ability to take anything given to you and turn it into something better than it was." He took a sip of the cocoa and grins broad and mischievous as when he flirts. "The greatest thing we can do is refuse to break when our enemies heap suffering on us beyond what is imaginable to endure. The essence of rebellion is to have a unconquerable will."