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, being one myself. But people like Lena

that even with my slight advantage, I would make

mean I

design for my dress into three separate parts that we

Now, we were ready to combine the

already finished Elva’s matching

final work,

not to be included in the shot, since that would ruin the anonymity of the

at something outside the window, likely the horses again, with the stables

I

kept thinking about Nicholas’s solo date, but

I were

room, nervousness and trepidation waging war within my chest.

to me.

I joined

toward the stables. “It’s

of the stables as

hands.

stallion that greedily accepted a sugar cube from Nicholas’s

chosen for Lilliana was a brown and

trying to sidestep whenever

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

shook her head, refusing to offer the

way Lilliana

ing dirty.

getting dirty.

she would hold

I

cube to the horse himself. In his presence,

help, lifted herself up into the

lingered near her

horseback riding together. He had helped me then, much

same way.

could still feel the phantom touch of his

“Tell me when you are okay, and I’ll

smile. “What if I want to

I

green sparkling brightly under the sun. “Then we should give up on horseback riding for today and return to one of our rooms instead. If you

properly

he was saying much the same thing to Lilliana,

moved his hands away from her

these two did

had chosen her, out of all the candidates, for

mounted his stallion. He waited for Lilliana to bring her mare alongside his horse, and then together they started to ride forwards at a slow pace – which brought

at the window.

when she realized,

figure out what she was going to do, she

She waved both arms.

Lilliana glowered, but Nicholas’s stern expression seemed to

lifted a hand and

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