The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 43

Chapter 43

At first glance, she appeared friendly enough, smiling peacefully. She curtsied to me and introduced herself.

Tm looking forward to serving you,” she said.

But I found it strange. Surely she had passed my other maid being taken away down the hall. What kind of person would be smiling so calmly after having witnessed such a thing?

icholas.

I

I

Today was the day for Nicholas’s solo date, and I was trying my very best not to think about it.

Ever since receiving Joseph’s threatening letter, I’d been hiding out in my room as much as I could to

avoid him and the mean–looking guards.

With the First Ball fast approaching, I used the extra time in my room to help my maids work on me and

Elva’s gowns.

The dress had to be perfect. The order of introductions for the girls at the ball was to be determined by

the princes‘ preferences of the dresses.

Once the gowns were finished, pictures were to be taken of them and given to the princes, who would

then select their favorites. Those favorites would be the first ones introduced at the ball, and therefore

given the most time with the princes.

And with the cameras.

A major component of the Luna Choosing Game, was earning the public’s favor. I had a small advantage

people like Lena and

even with my slight advantage, I would make

didn’t mean I wouldn’t

for my dress into three separate parts

to combine the three elements into a

Elva’s

final work, as she had the most experience with

maid began arranging the mannequin for the dresses photo shoot. Elva’s dress was not to

herself was looking at something outside the window, likely the horses again, with the stables so

I

why, I kept thinking about Nicholas’s solo date, but

I were

of the room, nervousness and

called to me. “Mommy, come

the distraction, I joined her

down toward the stables. “It’s

entrance of the stables as horses were brought to

hands.

stallion that greedily accepted a sugar cube

Lilliana was a brown and white mare that

sidestep whenever Lilliana came

noticing. left his own horse to approach Lilliana. He offered her

shook her head, refusing

exact words spoken beyond some mumbled voices, but with the way Lilliana held up her pure

ing dirty.

getting dirty.

wondered how she would

I

the horse himself. In his presence, the mare

approached then, and with Nicholas’s help, lifted herself up

near her waist, keeping

times we had gone horseback riding

same way.

I could still feel the phantom touch of

fall,” he’d said then. “Tell me when you are

given him a playful smile. “What if I want

I

on horseback riding for today and return to one of our rooms instead. If you want me to hold

properly

he was saying much the same thing

all. Nicholas moved his hands

a distance, these two did not seem

out of all the candidates, for

bring her mare alongside his horse, and then together they started to ride forwards at

at the window.

realized, “He’s coming over

I could figure out what she was going to

She waved both arms.

up. Lilliana glowered, but Nicholas’s stern expression seemed to

lifted a hand

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