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 stopped in front of

to gather my thoughts.

Piper?”

wrong, exactly. But I do have

He nodded, encouraging me.

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

Elva, of

course! Elva chimed

“But where would

maybe do some good? I

I rubbed my

i was a puzzle yet

perhaps?” I suggested. “I could help serve lunch later, and Elva could

gasped. “Yay! Let’s go there! I want to

spent too much time in the palace too, if he was thinking the worst

should be

“But?” I prompted.

“Never mind. I’ll take you

minutes.”

this time

went running

other kids.

head caretaker, an older woman who

hand many times in

to have another helping hand,” she

moment to sink in. Another

I cannot escape from being

where Nicholas was