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 little

of Elva. I believed him when he

that was all I could

Mark dropped to one knee to

happened to you, Elva. But

now on, you

didn’t reply, just looked at him with

scared, and your mom or Prince Nicholas aren’t

okay? Do you know my

me. At my nod, she

smile restored. He rose to his feet. “Are you both

cort your

be sick,

down a lot since the day before, she still seemed nervous,

guards, Mark included.

in their outfits were lost on her. She saw them all

pushed her out of a

trust them again. At least, the

girls were loudly

banned from the gardens before I had gone out there.

of her punishing in

endangerment made it onto television, thank goodness.

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