Chapter 0116

I forced myself to my feet. The tailor, after making sure I was upright and unharmed, immediately rushed from the room to retrieve a towel and a servant to clean the mess.

My soggy notes were beginning to fall apart in my hands, to wet to even maintain their paper shape.

“Linda,” I said, going to her.

She scrunched her nose as I came close, as if the very sight of me disgusted her. I was disheveled now, true, with my gown damp in some places and my hair a mess. But even so…

“Can I have those names again?” I asked. I knew she had written them down same as me.

She quickly hid her notepad from my sight. “If you lost those names, then this is on you, Piper. You need

to learn to take responsibility.” She narrowed her eyes. “We wouldn’t want anyone to think you had unfair

advantage.”

“It’s not like that,” I said.

She continued on, like I hadn’t said anything. “At least half of our table will look good, and the royal

tell who did which half.”

of the event,” I

the Luna is

care. You are a hindrance, not an adversary. Surely the

out the door. The other girls

sympathetic wave.

left strewn at the place where we had been, but we’d

what we had decided upon. I tried to remember what

guess about Linda’s preferences, after having heard them drilled into my head

an hour. Using that knowledge, maybe I could at least make a compatible half of the table, even if it didn’t match up

down the fabric and color names I could guesstimate were maybe correct, I rushed

pages, when one of the King’s

stand in audience with the

thickly. It wasn’t the servant’s fault that I

I doubted I would get

decided to face my inevitable end. I only hoped Nicholas could hear of it and

servant led me out of the kitchen and around the winding

chair at the head of a six–person table. When

wasn’t

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