The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0305

“It’s not a fault to be dependable,” I said.

“It is if it makes you immovable. You have to be more willing to be wrong.”

I closed my mouth and glared at him. As usual, my sharp looks seemed to bounce right off of him without taking hold.

“Come on,” Julian began walking. He didn’t look back, expecting me to fall in line behind. him. Damn him, I needed to, for Piper’s sake, so I did. “We can’t keep our dear uncle waiting.”

Together, Julian and I walked out of the palace and toward the guard barracks. In the basement beneath their facility was a type of prison. Julian jokingly called it, ‘the dungeon,‘ though that title wasn’t far from the truth.

It had been built long ago and though lighting and plumbing had been added later, it still maintained a certain level of castle dungeon aesthetic: thick stone walls, iron bars, chains on the walls. The interrogation rooms were once torture rooms, though no torture took place now.

none that I was privy to know about. I

light on the ceiling in the middle of the stone room. Terry’s hands were bound in shackles. His hair was messed, his beard overgrown.

I’d never seen the man in

visit me,” Terry said, distain dripping from his voice like poison. “What the hell more

off Julian much faster than me.

off Jane,” Julian said. “Before Piper gets

for her head, did she? I

now, adding

incredulously, and then laughed – loud and

asked sharply. He was losing his patience too, it seemed.

the mockery remained in the patronizing lilt of

freeze, the words slicing through me.

I supposed it made sense. Per the letter welcoming Terry to the underground, his