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 half.”

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

the Luna is

not an adversary. Surely the

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

sympathetic wave.

at the fabrics left strewn at the place where we had been, but we’d tried on so

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

I could guess about Linda’s preferences,

could at least make a compatible half of the table,

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

pages, when one of

to stand in audience with the king.” the servant said.

fault that I was

I doubted I would

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

servant led me out of the kitchen and around the winding hallways

the head of a six–person table. When

wasn’t