The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0347

But first, I had to make her safe.

That evening, I joined Veronica, Nicholas, and Julian in Julian’s private rooms, where we continued to talk about how to trap Jane.

“I’ve been thinking,” Veronica said. “It is possible, if you want, to fight fire with fire,”

“I like fire,” Julian sald.

I ignored him. “What do you mean, Veronica?”

“We could curse her, as she cursed Elva,” she said.

I blinked, startled. “You know how to do that?”

“I’ve never done it before, but I was trained,” Veronica said. There was no infliction in her voice, but she did lower her gaze as she spoke, looking down at the floor. “I’m confident I could curse her well enough for our purposes.”

Julian looked at me. Beside me, Nicholas crossed his arms. I leaned into him a little,

to consider, anyway,” Julian said, “She started it. Why shouldn’t we use her tactics against her? She lost her

something held me back yet. Jane was more monster than person now, but… did that mean it was okay to

looked at Veronica. She stood very still,

against doing what

to an extent. But… to cast her curse against Elva, Jane had to sacrifice something dear to her. Would whatever Veronica sacrificed be worth it

sacrificing something too: our humanity.

can’t do it,” I said.

Julian

be silent, like he was letting this all unfold. Maybe he was leaving the choice to me. Maybe he’d go along with whatever I wanted.

are not the same as her,” I said. “And we will not become like her just to

helps Elva

grows up and learns the

Julian said.

didn’t know if I believed that, but regardless it was a gamble I wasn’t willing

we do what we need to do then,” Nicholas said at last. “But we