The Luna Choosing Game

The day of the garden party event, I awoke early, dressed, and hurried down to the kitchens to warm my stuffed mushrooms. Many of the girls were already in there, and I had to wait my turn at the ovens.

I didn’t mind waiting this time, since the closer I heated my food to the start of the event, the more likely It would still be warm by the time the royal family came to our table.

With my appetizer warmed, I headed to the gardens and found Linda already at our station, fixing her

half of the display.

“Good morning. Linda,” I said as I approached.

She didn’t reply. I guessed she was still avoiding me. That was going to make this situation more difficult. How were we supposed to work together if we weren’t speaking to each other?

I resolved to do my best anyway, as much as I could without her support.

Noticing that she had already arranged her deviled eggs over the table, I started to intersperse my

stuffed mushrooms among them.

That, of all things, seemed to finally trigger her into speaking.

“Keep that garbage on your half of the table,” Linda snapped.

half. “Fair’s fair, Linda. Plus, it

better.” She quickly grabbed her eggs and

“Don’t tell me

didn’t have any ice or anything to keep the eggs cool. Depending on how soon or late our table was visited, that could be a problem. Eggs that weren’t kept

have anything

said, stop talking

wasn’t actually what she had said, but I decided not to

that out.

my warm

stuffed mushrooms. With her cold eggs

in between, our display was visually

event, exactly. We were supposed to explore compromise

take with adversaries.

Linda would not budge, this would have

+15 BONDS

around whatever questions the royal family might have for

them, began the event. Lilliana’s table

made, but I could very clearly see the moment she decided to hand–feed it to

she offered. He