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

past, partially

the continued treatments and care we’ve taken over

itself is already going

she is okay?”

she only needs rest. We will continue to monitor. Call me if

am needed, else I will check back first thing in

you, doctor,” I said.

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

her again for the added assurance. Then Mark walked

bed, watching Elva as she slept. The doctor had spoken true, she did not seem

sweating was minimal, and when I touched her forehead,

not

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

of course, was that this was all only

left, Elva’s health would likely decline

+15 BONUS

and a half away, that unpleasant reality was creeping in on

rather than later.