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

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

Luna is supposed to.”

are a hindrance, not an

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

sympathetic wave.

where we had been,

upon. I tried to remember what I

I could guess about Linda’s preferences, after

a compatible half of the table,

maybe correct, I rushed down to the

when one of the King’s

have been summoned to stand in audience with the king.”

that I

me. I doubted I

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

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

table. When the servant and I approached, he offered me the chair to his left.

Sit.” It wasn’t