The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0064

Nicholas didn’t say a word. He simply turned and left.

“Bye, Nick–lass!” Elva called, before happily returning to her waffles.

Deflated, I corrected my chair and flopped down onto it. None of the girls spoke to me during the rest of

breakfast.

Susie might have, but she was still too embarrassed from her own comment. Her gaze never lifted to

mine.

The longer I sat there in silence, with the girls chattering amongst themselves, the more suffocated I

began to feel in the palace.

The girls‘ conversations had more or less returned to the same topics as before, as if I had not spoken

up at all. I hated being surrounded by so much vanity and selfishness. It made me worry that I was

becoming that way too.

By the time Elva and I had finished breakfast and were on our way back to our room, I felt like I might

vibrate straight out of my skin. I was uncomfortable and unhappy.

The looming threat of my punishment weighed on my mind too.

room, talking to the new guards. I

to gather my thoughts.

Piper?”

exactly. But I do

He nodded, encouraging me.

wanted to go somewhere during my off–time, would I be allowed? Somewhere off the

Elva, of

Elva

said. “But where would you want to go?

myself, and maybe do some good? I don’t know.

rubbed my

at me curquely, like i was a puzzle yet to be

help serve lunch later, and Elva could play

gasped. “Yay! Let’s go there! I

a little wide. Had I surprised him? Maybe he spent too much time in the palace too,

should

“But?” I prompted.

his head, then smiled at me. “Never mind. I’ll take you myself. Meet me out

minutes.”

Elva cheered, and this time

the orphanage, Elva went running to the

other kids.

caretaker, an

many times in a

she

took a moment to

even here, I cannot escape from being

entryway where Nicholas was