The Luna Choosing Game

The next morning. when I woke up, I headed straight for the window to look at the sky. Fortunately, there

was no cloud in sight. Today, it seemed, I would escape my punishment.

One of these days, however, my luck would run out and I would be forced to kneel in the storm and hope

my body was strong enough to take it.

Elva and I dressed for the day, and hand in hand, we exited our room to head down to breakfast. Just

outside of the room, we were greeted by Mark.

“Piper, Elva.” He turned toward the two guards standing behind him. “From now on, these two will be

personally assigned to you.”

Their uniforms were more or less similar to other guards I’d seen, except these ones had green trim

around their cuffs.

“They are a part of Prince Nicholas’s personal guard,” Mark explained. “You will also find that others on

this floor have been replaced, though these two will be outside your door at all times if you need them.”

The two gave me soft nods. They seemed nice enough, much nicer than my previous guards. And if they

I had

seemed fond of Elva. I believed him when

safe. Really, that was

one knee to talk

Elva. But I can vow to

on, you

didn’t reply, just looked at

smile wavered. “If you are ever scared, and your mom or Prince Nicholas aren’t around, you

for me, okay? Do you know my

me. At my nod, she gave him her attention again.

said, smile restored. He rose to his feet. “Are you both headed down to

cort your

sick, wouldn’t

the day before, she still seemed nervous, especially around

guards, Mark included.

her. She saw them all as

pushed her out

trust them again. At least,

breakfast, the girls were loudly chatting about the previous day’s

had been banned from the gardens before I had gone out

all of her punishing in

none of Elva’s endangerment made it onto

not mean the other girls had not heard of