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.

of our room, talking to the new guards. I stopped in front of him

to gather my thoughts.

Piper?”

exactly. But I do have a

He nodded, encouraging me.

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

Elva,

course! Elva

arrange something.” Mark said. “But where

I could center myself, and maybe do

rubbed

me curquely, like i was a puzzle yet to

help

“Yay! Let’s go there!

wide. Had I surprised him? Maybe he spent too much time in the

know a place. It should be okay, but…” He

“But?” I prompted.

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

minutes.”

cheered, and this

at the orphanage, Elva went running to the playground to meet

other kids.

an older woman who

hand many times in

so pleased to have another helping hand,” she said.

to sink in.

even here, I cannot escape from

looked up to the open entryway where Nicholas was standing. He stared at me expressionlessly for