The Luna Choosing Game

I quickly excuse myself from Joyce and his group and rush from the room, with Charlotte following me..

“The doctor should be in with her now,” Charlotte said. “Mark sent a guard to retrieve her just as I left to

find you.”

“Good,” I said. We did not speak again as we hurried through the hallways and up the stairs.

Finally, when we made it to the room, we found the doctor tending to Elva in bed while Mark watched

1. on. He greeted me when I came to stand near him.

“How long has she had a fever?” I asked. I hadn’t been gone all that long myself. She had seemed okay

before I left, but I had not thought to take her temperature.

“She only really started to feel bad in the past twenty minutes or so,” Mark said. “At first we thought she

had overexerted herself when playing, but after sitting for a while, she still didn’t feel better. When I

touched her forehead…” He lifted his hand and glared at it like it had betrayed him. “She was burning up.”

We watched on for a while, as the doctor examined and tended to Elva. When she finally stepped back,

hurried to her. Elva

past, partially because

and care we’ve taken over the past

is already going

she is okay?”

For now, she only needs rest. We will continue to monitor. Call me

will check back first thing in

you, doctor,”

little girl, and a fighter.

her again for the added assurance. Then Mark walked her to the

on the edge of the bed, watching Elva as she slept. The doctor had spoken true, she did

in as much pain as usual. Her sweating was minimal, and when I touched her forehead, it

not hot.

her illness. The high end medical care

life. The problem, of course, was that this

as we left, Elva’s health would

+15 BONUS

elimination ceremony only a day and a half away, that unpleasant reality

rather than later.