The Luna Choosing Game

“Maybe we should turn back,” Nicholas said.

“Too late now,” Julian said. “We’ve got to be sure.”

“I see light up there, Julian,” Nicholas said. “Dim the flashlight.”

Julian turned to the flashlight to the dimmest setting, and aimed it down at the ground. We had to move

slower than before, so as not to trip. She walked lightly to keep our footsteps from generating noise.

At the end of the tunnel, the walls abruptly stretched open into a room.

A room full of cages. A single tungsten bulb hung down from the ceiling, the only light in the room full of

shadows.

“What the —?” I began to say. Nicholas abruptly covered my mouth. He yanked me back into the

darkness of the tunnel. Julian followed at once, clicking off the flashlight.

A door on the far side of the room cracked open, and in walked Terry beside a man I had never seen

before a man dressed entirely in black with sallow cheeks and dark eyes.

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see this room should offer the organization needs for their purposes,” Terry

used this area for my own personal enjoyment in the past.

breaking a person’s

this opening here?” the associate said. With silent steps, he came closer to

tugged me closer to him, until my back was flat against his chest. He still

now I held my breath as well.

worried the strange, dangerous

Terry said, walking closer. “Though one that has been bearing fruit. Soon, I will have much to offer the underground organization. Perhaps even something

me, but he looked away just as quickly. “What we need are more abilities,

narrowed. “You would do well

hold sway in the royal

must still prove yourself.”

“Ridiculous,” Terry snapped.

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him. In an instant, there was a knife in his

learn your place one way or another.”

puffed out his chest. “You dare

catching it under the orange light. “It’s

of the King, but the underground controls all. This is your home because

because we allow

so tightly a muscle ticked in his jaw.