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?"

took a breath. "That magic trick' 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

the book talked about how to remove the curse, then maybe

Veronica looked anything

because looking at Veronica,

the nature of Elva's curse and the magical power level needed to remove

one to make the curse, on her own daughter no less. I'd come to accept that Jane would never come around,

"Yes," Veronica said.

purple. Is that good?" I was beginning

case, it pulled

is the most intricate of the curses," Veronica said. "It will require the highest amount of magical power

amount of power? Veronica was the only one I knew

her

"What I do is mere

false hope I had built up for myself crashed and burned all around me. It was my

no. No, no," I said quickly. "This isn't on

"If I were stronger-*

enough, Veronica." I inched closer to her. I dipped my head into her line of vision so she could see my face and know that

with herself. I couldn't talk. I knew exactly how it felt to

"She's the only one with enough power to have a

from my heart. I wanted to arrive, to help Elva, but I still didn't know if I could fully trust her.

only just started. Maybe

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

little ways, wanting to give her some

showed her folded bird to Nicholas, who had just stepped out onto the deck from the house. She explained in her roundabout child way that Veronica had made it and given it to her, and

Frank," Nicholas said to the

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

stood side by

to cool down," Nicholas said.

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