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

able to tell who did which

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

Luna is

are a hindrance, not an adversary. Surely the royal family

the door. The other girls all shunned me, except for Susie, who

sympathetic wave.

we had been, but we’d tried on so

what we had decided upon. I tried to remember

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

that knowledge, maybe I could at least make a compatible half of the table, even if

maybe correct, I rushed down to

pouring over the pages, when one of

in audience with

fault that I was maybe

chase me. I doubted I

I only hoped Nicholas could hear of it and intervene

me out of the kitchen and around the winding hallways until

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

Sit.” It wasn’t