Chapter 266

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Chapter 266

Ella

A few days later, the second competition for the Luna Trial was announced: etiquette.

“I’m not sure how well I’ll do,” Anya said as she practiced her curtsy in front of my bedroom mirror. “I’ve never had real training… Just what my mom taught me.”

“I can teach you a few tricks,” I said absentmindedly as I rocked a sleeping Lucien in my arms.

Anya whirled toward me with wide eyes. “You’d really do that?” I nodded, and she furrowed her brow. “Have you had etiquette training?”

Of course I had. It was the number–one thing my father drilled into my head from a very young age. A future Luna had to know how to curtsy, how to pour tea, how to hold cutlery the right way and all of the other things that came with the job.

climbing trees like a normal child, I was practicing how to walk with a book on my head like a

be bothered to

nor there at this point. And so, with a smile, I stood and said, “I’ve picked up

day, I taught Anya as much as I could. By the end of the day, her skills were already improving and she was chattering away

my feet a few times, spill some tea, slouch a bit. And even if I somehow made it to the next round, at least I knew I could drop


grand ballroom, whispering amongst themselves about proper curtsying techniques and

windows. I looked over to see Sophia standing with her gaggle of admirers around her–which was considerably

of my eyes as Sophia picked up a book and set it delicately atop her rather intricate updo. The other girls

sneer stretched across her face at the sight of me, clearly still bitter about the Queen of

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resisted the urge to roll my

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had I ever believed her sob story? Even for a few desperate minutes while I was in labor, I’d actually considered that she might be telling the truth. That she was trying to protect me and Lucien from some

a joke. Sophia was the same scheming,

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