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

foolish, would he?

believe that. Much of Julian’s flakiness was a façade he put on.

seriously.

Like our investigation.

want to admit to myself that I was worried about him. Nicholas had been right about one thing: investigating the

but I didn’t want to

some random girl for a while, being irresponsible but safe,

in the elimination. I could

of the sitting rooms. Since Julian was missing, only Nicholas and Joyce attended. The girls fully surrounded

either. The presence of his emotionless mask

to me as a friend, he had commanded me as

Fine Perfect.

had tried to get closer to Nicholas but was shoved away by

rate, we might as well see ourselves out.

knows my