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

was a façade he put on. He took plenty

seriously.

Like our investigation.

Nicholas had been right about

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

had simply run off with some random girl for a while, being irresponsible but safe,

speak with him about securing my spot in the elimination. I could only hope that he

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.

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

Fine Perfect.

of the girls near me, who had tried to get closer to Nicholas but

another. “At this rate, we might as

Nicholas knows