The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story



Chapter 0550

Elva glanced up at Veronica and her laughter stifled. "What's wrong?" she asked.

Veronica startled a little, then tried to smile again. It wasn't as big as before. It barely twitched her lip, and certainly did not meet her eyes.

"Nothing's wrong," Veronica said. "I'm glad you liked the trick."

*How long does it last?" I asked, though as soon as the words left my mouth Elva's purple glow began to fade.

"Aww," Elva said, looking at her hands. "Do it again!"

"Elva, honey," I scolded lightly. "We don't demand things from people."

"I'm tired now," Veronica said. "Maybe another time."

Elva tucked her chin down, disappointed. But she said, "Okay."

*Thank Veronica for the magic trick," I reminded Elva.

Elva kicked her feet on the ground. "Thank you..." she mumbled.

"You're welcome," Veronica said.

Elva lifted her folded bird again. She glanced at me, as if for permission.

"Go on," I said. "Have fun."

Nearby I saw the nanny coming up onto the deck. Elva saw her too, and ran toward her, holding up the folded bird. With Elva thoroughly distracted, I turned to Veronica, looking for an explanation. "What just happened?"

was actually an incantation I read about in this book." She motioned toward the merfolk book on the top of the bar. "The book contains many sections on curses and

and I perked up. She said 'remove them'! That should be exciting, a great sign! If the book talked about how to remove the curse, then maybe we didn't need to wait for the

Veronica looked anything

good news?" I asked, because looking at Veronica,

purpose of the incantation is to show the nature of Elva's curse and the magical power level needed

I said. Jane was the one to make the curse, on her own daughter no less. I'd come to accept that Jane

"Yes," Veronica said.

that good?" I was beginning to

false hope. Although in this case, it pulled my heart out a little. I

of the curses," Veronica said. "It will require the highest amount of magical power to

only one I knew who could do any

you remove her curse?"

Not by far." She sighed. "What I do is mere

stomach dropped down to the ground. Any false hope I had built up for myself crashed and burned all around me. It was my own fault. I should have known from Veronica's expressions that the

no," I said quickly. "This

"If I were stronger-*

of vision so she could see my face and know that I'm earnest. "We wouldn't even know any of

with herself. I couldn't talk. I knew exactly how it felt to not believe you were

the only one with enough

arrive, to help Elva, but I still didn't know if I could fully trust her. The oracle was a stranger.

reading." Veronica said. "I've only just started. Maybe there's more I

hoped she knew how much I appreciated her. I wasn't

I walked off a little ways, wanting to give her some space. I looked out

stepped out onto the deck from the house. She explained in her roundabout child way that Veronica had made it and

said to

after that and she rushed over to a pile of napkins in an attempt to replicate the bird. Unfortunately, Veronica didn't notice to be able to

distracted, Nicholas made his way over to me. Together we stood

cool down," Nicholas said. "I'm

didn't think he had anything to be sorry about. "I'm not mad that you want to