The Luna Choosing Game

“Linda”

“Olivia!”

A few other names were called as well, but none as loud as those two. They had to come from

prominent packs indeed, to have been allowed so many onlookers into the small crowd.

Elva, nervous by the noise, hid behind my skirt. I picked her up into my arms.

“Are you frightened?” I asked her.

She nodded.

“Don’t worry,” I said. “They just want to see you. They’re here to cheer for you,

“They aren’t saying my name.”

I kissed the side of her head. “They just don’t know it yet.”

When the royal family arrived to the stage, the camera crew came alive.

Elva.”

Nathan walked his way down the line of us girls. “Heads up, everyone. We’re about to start.”

1 straightened Elva’s dress, then held her close as the director waved and the crowd erupted into a roar.

strong breath that lifted his entire chest, and

joining us. Those here in the crowd,

to introduce you to the selected

Luna, that is, the next Queen.”

one, the girls stepped forward, introducing themselves, the pack they

something about themselves.

pack. “I will

half the crowd

to be outdone. Her pack was just as prominent. “I thank my pack for their

of the crowd

at Olivia, but it was too fight to

too softly into the microphone for anyone to hear. Nathan asked her to speak up

Nathan smoothly moved on from her distress, passing

helped me hold the microphone. The crowd, watching us began

“I am twenty years old, and my pack..” I quickly gave the name of my less- prestigious pack. 1 would like to thank the royal family for giving a single mother

the selection.”

one cheered for me. They whispered and

the microphone.

least earned a couple of

worried her bottom lip with her teeth, as Nathan

her, but she still

were ushered to a press conference further into the gardens.