The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0519 With the drama mostly settled forthe moment, I thanked Nicholas for his help.

He smiled once more at me.

Then we split ways, and I made my way down to where the children were playing I to check on Elva. As I drew closer, I could see how tired she was.

It made sense, while the other children were swimming around using their strong tails, Elva had only her two weak legs. Of course she would be exhausted trying to keep up.

She was still smiling, still having fun, but she wasn’t moving with quite the vibrancy she’d earlier displayed.

When she saw me, she waved. I kicked my way over to her, opened my arms, and immediately she came closer to rest.

“Are you having fun, sweetheart?” I

asked her.

“So much fun,” she said with a yawn.

“Don’t make me go home, Mommy” “Not yet, dearest. But you better rest for a moment.” “Just a minute,” she said. Her eyes drooped, but she fought off sleep.

Watching her efforts made my heart ache.

Poor thing didn’t want to miss a minute of this adventure.

One of the merfolk children tugged at my arm. She was a bit older than Elva, maybe seven or eight, with her hair done up in elaborate pigtails. A row of pearls dotted across her forehead. A royal, then.

She pointed at the wall behind them, where I noticed some shelfs had been set up, each covered in some soft-looking cushions.

“When we get sleepy,” the little princess said, “that’s where we sleep.” She

so that she could twirl her fins around her fingers. “Elva would like it. It's

term was politically correct. I should have I made certain Elva knew to call everyone merfolk. The little princess didn’t seem to mind though. She looked at Elva with the kind of fondness a sister might

remembered what Ambassador Zale said, that everyone treated the children as if they were they’re own. I wondered if that rubbed off on the older children

the shelfs and

her. And then eased Elva onto the shelf. She was already drifting. I roused her slightly so that she would know where she was and where I

so tired, but she still gave an excited smile. “I get to sleep like a mermaid...” she said, and then immediately drifted

my angel slept, the little princess tugged on

sure she sleeps

I had given

not wanting to interfere in the princess’s self-assigned duties.

making sure to keep the other children

me through and through seeing such kindness. Elva has made a friend for life I here, I

hoped they would get to

then, to find the others, only to find a mysterious older merfolk woman behind me. She watched me closely, then tilted her

gray curls, topped with a towering crown, second only, that I'd seen, to Queen

times, depending on the light. Even her fins were

mysterious as the float

her that this was a matron

most likely, though I knew so little of magic, I had no idea if merfolk were more or less

Veronica was here.

children treating yours

was worthy of some type of honorific. “Thank

is haunted by darkness. I had worried that the cause was linked to you, but I

I was surprised a

you are unable,” the merfolk said. “Though I suspect you too know she is cursed.” ' So Iwas right. Only those with magical abilities would have been able to detect the curse, especially as it was currently inactive. Or, as inactive as it could be, with Jane’s

She studied my face like she could read my every expression, though to be fair, I did little to hide what I was

be enough information for the mysterious merfolk to fill in