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

tell who

against the spirit of the event,” I

like the Luna is supposed to.”

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

other girls all shunned me, except for Susie, who gave

sympathetic wave.

at the place where we had been, but we’d tried on so many things,

had decided upon. I

the very least, I could guess about Linda’s preferences,

make a compatible half of the table, even if

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

the pages, when one of the King’s servants found me.

summoned to stand in audience with the

It wasn’t the servant’s fault that I was

I doubted I would get very far.

my inevitable end. I only hoped Nicholas could hear of it and intervene before I was hanged

servant led me out of the kitchen and around the winding hallways until we entered the

sitting in a chair at the head of a six–person table. When the servant and I approached, he offered me the chair to his

It wasn’t