The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

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

to tell

goes against the spirit of the event,” I said. “We’re supposed to work

like the Luna

not an adversary. Surely the royal family will understand

out the door. The other girls all shunned me, except

sympathetic wave.

place where we had been, but we’d

what we had decided upon. I tried to remember what I

very least, I could guess about Linda’s preferences, after having heard them drilled into my head

a compatible half of the table, even if it didn’t

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

one of the

audience with

wasn’t the servant’s fault that

I doubted I would get very

rose my chin in defiance, and decided to face my inevitable end. I only hoped Nicholas could hear of it and intervene before I was hanged for treason,

and around the winding hallways until we entered the

a six–person table. When the servant and I approached, he offered me the

It wasn’t