The Luna Choosing Game

It wasn’t that I didn’t believe Mark when he had told me that Julian had left the palace and hadn’t been

seen since the morning, but I still had to snoop around some to be sure. I needed to talk to him so badly, t

couldn’t just sit around and wait for him to return.

I asked some of the servants and the more–friendly of the guards. But each person had the same story,

more or less. No one had seen Julian or his Beta Brian since the morning Julian and I had talk to Williams.

“It’s not unusual for him to disappear,” said one of the servants. “Prince Julian is a bit rebellious.

Sometimes he would leave the palace for days at a time only to return with no explanation. No one’s ever

really sure about that one.”

That didn’t make me feel at all better. He would disappear for a few days? Surely he would know this time about the elimination ceremony. He wouldn’t leave me high and dry while he was off doing

would

a façade he put

seriously.

Like our investigation.

to myself that I was worried about him. Nicholas had

I weren’t exactly friends, but I didn’t

a while, being irresponsible but safe, rather than the alternative that he

securing my spot in the elimination. I

just a bit more time with the princes, that evening, a brief meetup was arranged in one of the sitting rooms. Since Julian was missing, only Nicholas and Joyce attended. The girls fully surrounded Nicholas, while

presence of his emotionless mask hurt though, just a tiny bit. It seemed like he was treating me just as he did all the other girls.

what he had done earlier, too? He hadn’t spoken to me as a friend, he

Fine Perfect.

near me, who had tried to get closer to Nicholas but was shoved away by the group circling

“At this rate, we might as well

knows my