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

vetted by Nicholas, then I had

tumultuous past, Nicholas seemed fond of Elva. I believed

Really, that was all

one knee

to you, Elva. But I can vow to you that it will

you have

reply, just looked at

you are ever scared, and your mom or

me, okay? Do you

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

He rose to his feet. “Are you both headed down

cort your

sick, wouldn’t

had calmed down a lot since the day before, she

guards, Mark included.

outfits were lost on her.

and pushed her out of a

in time, she would come to trust them again.

loudly chatting about the

been banned from the gardens before I had gone out there. The

do all of her

made it

didn’t catch it, did not mean the other girls