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

will be able to tell who did which

of the event,” I

the Luna

an adversary.

The other girls all shunned me, except for Susie, who gave

sympathetic wave.

we had been, but we’d tried on so many things,

we had decided upon. I tried to remember what I

preferences, after having heard

that knowledge, maybe I could at least make a compatible half of the table,

the fabric and color names I could guesstimate were maybe correct, I rushed down to the

the pages, when one of the King’s servants

been summoned to stand in audience

fault that I was

ordered to chase me. I doubted

in defiance, and decided to face my inevitable end. I only hoped Nicholas could hear of it and intervene before I was hanged for treason, or some other

around the winding

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