The Luna Trials by Marissa Gilbert

Chapter 39

Savvy blinked and saw snow-white hair swinging before her eyes as Naya took a battle stance.

“Easy there!” Her lips curled into a menacing grin as she blocked inga’s attack. Her eyes did not promise her opponent anything good, “You may hurt yourself again! We wouldn’t want that would

we?”

The werecat dodged another blow and then kicked Inga’s legs gracefully, making her kiss the dirty ground. Once again, Savannah admired the beauty with which the cats moved. As if they were dancing and not fighting

“If we could shift…” the werewolf growled.

“If we could shift, there would be a blood stain in the shape of you!” Naya retorted with a chuckle. “You don’t scare me, wolf girt. The only one I am scared of in this entire competition is the person I side

with.”

“Enough!” Celia tried to wriggle out from under Savannah, and the Princess stood up, letting her go. The ginger-haired girl rushed to her friend’s side,

“But…”inga was about to protest

“Did you hear what she said?” Celia seemed more agitated because of the magic word than anything else. “Sorry, but even Penelope is not worth it for me. Soyou are on your own! Besides, I think we have stalled them for long enough!”

Inga relaxed slightly hearing this and nodded. They exchanged glances and charged in the same direction without saying anything else.

“So much for their company!” Naya turned to face the other two women, and Savvy really didn’t

know what to expect next.

**You side with me?” The Princess raised her brow questioningly.

“Of course I do!” Alaugh followed the reply. “Who else could you and me, two Westerners, join

here?

“I could join forces with Astrid.” Savvy pointed out, throwing a quick glance at Petra, who still clung to the tree branch as if her life depended on it.

“I hate that one!” Naya scrunched her nose. “And Brigit!” The Princess continued. “Ugh, that one is even worse. You see why you needed me here?” The cat smirked.

“I needed you? Since when?” Now Savannah was interested.

“Since always!” Naya rolled her eyes. “Why do you think I am here? To fight for a man? No, thank you. I like pirts more anyway. Although men can be fun sometimes. That depends on the size of their dl-”

“I get it!” Savannah tried to stop her confession. “I still don’t get why, though. And how did you know

about the Trials?”

“I received an invitation from Elene. She wanted a werecat of noble blood to compete, and my

mother chose me.”

“So, you knew before I even got here?” Savvy gritted her teeth. “Why didn’t you inform us? We are

supposed to be in an alliance with the cat packs.”

“We are in an alliance,” Naya confirmed nonchalantly. “That’s the whole point. You didn’t need that

information back then. Your brother would flip, and we would have had another war on our hands instead

of a new and powerful ally. Who would want that? My mother sent me here to help you get King Kai’s heart and marry him. Or, at the very least, help you win the Trials and get the three wishes. If you had been disqualified, I would have to win this thing myself. Luckily, you didn’t disappoint. The King is really not my type, so thanks for that.”

“You cats have strange ideas about loyalty,” Sawy scoffed; however, she also felt relieved.

“We do what will benefit us all. If King Gideon asked us, we would have told him what we knew. But he didn’t, so….”

That was one convenient way of thinking

exactly has your being here helped me?” Savannah let out a laugh. This

hilarious.

If something wasn’t, I had to report to her, and she would inform King Gideon.” Naya folded

like a very questionable plan!”

disappeared for a few days, but after I listened to Beta Lachlan’s conversation with Princess Elene, I knew you were not suffering in the King’s arms. I have to say,

somewhere closer to the end of the Trials. And look at you

it’s

at her. Her lips were twitching to keep a straight face, but tears were already on her

forgot the

tears streamed down her cheeks. “Giving him sexy’l favours so that he helps you is not

at once, choosing her words cautiously

sex al lavours! Petra, we … we

left her mouth. It was the first time she said

first time she claimed him

Petra’s expression changed

pink-haired girl asked, and Naya snorted, but Savannah jabbed her with her

need to move

Forgotten City.”

and wait for help.” The werecat smiled at Petra, clearly intending

behind.

that I’d take care

helped her to wrap her arm around her neck

support. “Let’s go.”

to herself and took the tree branch

throwing it away. “Come here!

for a while, but since there were two of them now, it

faster.

any attacks anymore.” The werecat tried to look

in the situation. “Inga and Celia are long gone.

seeing the walls of the Forgotten City from a distance. They weren’t as destroyed as she imagined. In fact, they

is it?”

wish I knew!” The Princess

“Women spend their life there in prayers to Fenrir. They only eat food they grow themselves and are never allowed to marry anyone. Even if they meet their mate, however unlikely if one lives in Claghtern, they have to reject them. It’s

“That’s a first!” “They are more like priestesses,” Petra tried to explain. “It’s an honourable position.” “if it’s that honourable, why did one mention of the place make Cella disappear?”

chuckled.

type?” The werecat

lauchs.

firstborn daughter would jo!n Claghtern” the pink-haired werewolf continued explaining. “Cella had to join them last year. Evelyn says it’s one of the reasons why she is in the Luna Trials. First, it postpones the Inevitable. And second, if she or one of her friends wins, they could use one of

would waste a wish on her, she

but there was no entrance in

had already lost too much time, but it wasn’t hopeless yet. She was confident in her own strength

Naya

The werecat sighed. “Just go already. I will look after her UNTIL her foot is healed. After that, she is on

leave me now,” Petra realised they were talking about her. “I will

into this, and now you have to do the best you can. Your leg will

point if there isn’t even a prize anymore?” The she-wolf pouted her lips. “According to your own

and wait until someone arrives to save you?”

going to

to wait for the outcome.

!

hope to see you fight, Petra. Not for Kai, not for any man. For you. You are just as strong as everybody else here. Even if you don’t go far until you try, you

smirk. “I’ll find you later by your scent,” she promised, waving

wall, realising there was no entrance to

fence and no doors, no gates, no holes …

the wall, not to

northern capital unfolded before her eyes. It was a huge circular labyrinth with thousands of branches, and Savvy had no idea how people lived here in ancient

sunset.

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