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

I said. “We’re supposed to

like the Luna is supposed

care. You are a hindrance, not an adversary. Surely the royal family will understand that.”

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

sympathetic wave.

fabrics left strewn at the place where we had been,

what we had decided upon. I tried to

preferences, after having heard them drilled into

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

I could guesstimate were maybe correct,

the pages, when one of the King’s servants

summoned to stand in audience with the

wasn’t the servant’s fault that I was maybe about to

been ordered to chase me. I doubted I

I buried my fear deep down, rose my chin in defiance, and decided to face my inevitable end. I only hoped Nicholas could hear of

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

a chair at the head of a six–person table. When the servant and I approached,

wasn’t