The Luna Choosing Game

I should have known better.

He stood from the bed. “There are many girls here who would make good Lunas. Olivia is perhaps the

strongest of the group.”

I don’t know what I had been expecting, but my stomach still twisted uncomfortably as he spoke

other girls.

“She’s beautiful and cunning. And she has a strong following in the public. Lilliana has the proper

demeanor. And then there’s –”

“Okay, that’s enough. I get the picture.”

Nicholas shrugged, as if to say, you asked.

I regretted that choice.

“Rest now,” Nicholas said. “I’ll send my physician to check on you.”

Without another word, he walked to the door and left me.

the

I was so confused. His rescue had been daring. For a moment, I had almost convinced myself that he

But then when he had talked about

me out of a sense of duty. Maybe he would

girls.

over my head and groaned. The mixed messages were hard to

even certain what I wanted to

me sort through it, but I had no way to talk to her. I hoped

idea how she was paying for my

found another roommate. I wondered what they

impossible. Since my phone was confiscated on

no way to communicate with the

thinking about her and her steady comfort helped bring me some

if I could

you are so sure you are going to be eliminated – which, I’m not

there. Eat that

she would say with

her imaginary antics,

help, and no shortness of luck, I was able to

light cold. I had sniffles and a headache, but no fever. It felt like a

sickness, she was set up in another room for now with a

stayed by her side at all times,

could see her, but I’d never dare chance passing my cold onto her. With

she would suffer a

away from my other responsibilities of the game, however,