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

saved me out of a sense of duty. Maybe he would have done the same for

girls.

pulled the covers over my head and groaned. The mixed messages were hard to decipher,

I wanted to

through it, but I had no way to talk

she was paying for my half of

another roommate. I wondered

was impossible. Since my phone

to communicate with the outside

thinking about her and her steady comfort helped bring me some peace. I

say if I

eliminated – which, I’m not convinced of, by the way then

second you are there. Eat that good food. Walk through those gardens. Flirt

which, she would say with

antics, I drifted

I was able to recover by the next

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

my sickness, she was set up in another room

stayed by her side

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

system, she would suffer a much

from my other responsibilities of