I forced myself to my feet. The tailor, after making sure I was upright and unharmed, immediately rushed from the room to retrieve a towel and a servant to clean the mess.

My soggy notes were beginning to fall apart in my hands, to wet to even maintain their paper shape.

“Linda,” I said, going to her.

She scrunched her nose as I came close, as if the very sight of me disgusted her. I was disheveled now, true, with my gown damp in some places and my hair a mess. But even so…

“Can I have those names again?” I asked. I knew she had written them down same as me.

She quickly hid her notepad from my sight. “If you lost those names, then this is on you, Piper. You need

to learn to take responsibility.” She narrowed her eyes. “We wouldn’t want anyone to think you had unfair

advantage.”

“It’s not like that,” I said.

She continued on, like I hadn’t said anything. “At least half of our table will look good, and the royal

to tell who

the spirit of the event,” I said. “We’re

like the Luna is supposed to.”

don’t care. You are a hindrance, not an adversary. Surely

the door. The other girls all

sympathetic wave.

we

what we had decided upon. I tried to remember what I could.

about Linda’s preferences, after having heard them drilled

hour. Using that knowledge, maybe I could at least make a compatible half of the

correct, I rushed down

the pages, when one of the King’s servants found me.

been summoned to stand in audience with the king.”

fault that I was maybe about

I

my fear deep down, rose my chin in defiance, and decided to face my inevitable end. I only hoped Nicholas could hear of it and intervene before I was hanged for

kitchen and around the winding hallways

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