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

Nicholas, then I

fond of Elva. I believed him when he said he

safe. Really, that was all

Mark dropped to one knee

that happened to you, Elva. But I can vow to you

on, you have

reply, just looked at him with

ever scared, and your mom or

me, okay? Do you

At my nod, she gave him

to his feet. “Are you both headed down

cort your

sick,

lot since the day before, she still

guards, Mark included.

their outfits were lost on her. She saw them

her out of

come to trust them again. At least, the

the girls were loudly chatting about

the gardens before I had gone out there. The Queen, it seemed,

do all of her punishing in

made it

cameras didn’t catch it, did not mean the other girls had not heard of