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,

caught sight of me and motioned me over. I hurried to her. Elva was sleeping soundly in the

those in the past, partially because we caught it so quickly, but also,

of the continued treatments and care we’ve taken over the past weeks,” the doctor said. ”

fever itself is already going down.”

is okay?”

tomorrow. For now, she only needs

I will check back first thing

doctor,” I said.

little girl, and a fighter. She will be fine.”

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

Elva as she slept. The doctor had spoken true,

much pain as usual. Her sweating was minimal, and when I

not hot.

palace had been doing wonders for her illness. The high end

been saving her life. The problem, of course, was that this was all

we left, Elva’s health would likely decline again.

+15 BONUS

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

than