The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0550

Elva glanced up at Veronica and her laughter stifled. "What's wrong?" she asked.

Veronica startled a little, then tried to smile again. It wasn't as big as before. It barely twitched her lip, and certainly did not meet her eyes.

"Nothing's wrong," Veronica said. "I'm glad you liked the trick."

*How long does it last?" I asked, though as soon as the words left my mouth Elva's purple glow began to fade.

"Aww," Elva said, looking at her hands. "Do it again!"

"Elva, honey," I scolded lightly. "We don't demand things from people."

"I'm tired now," Veronica said. "Maybe another time."

Elva tucked her chin down, disappointed. But she said, "Okay."

*Thank Veronica for the magic trick," I reminded Elva.

Elva kicked her feet on the ground. "Thank you..." she mumbled.

"You're welcome," Veronica said.

Elva lifted her folded bird again. She glanced at me, as if for permission.

"Go on," I said. "Have fun."

Nearby I saw the nanny coming up onto the deck. Elva saw her too, and ran toward her, holding up the folded bird. With Elva thoroughly distracted, I turned to Veronica, looking for an explanation. "What just happened?"

breath. "That magic trick' was actually an incantation I read about in this book." She motioned toward the merfolk book on the top of the bar. "The book contains

a great sign! If the book talked about how to remove the curse, then maybe we didn't need to

looked anything but happy

asked, because looking at Veronica, I was really

of Elva's curse and the magical power level

I said. Jane was the one to make the curse, on her own daughter no less. I'd come to accept that Jane would never come around, not to help herself or anyone else. If left to Jane,

Cóntent

Is that good?" I was beginning to

false hope. Although in this case, it pulled my heart out a little.

the curses," Veronica said. "It will require the highest amount of magical power to

amount of power? Veronica was the only one I knew who could do

remove her

sighed. "What I do is

Any false hope I had built up for myself crashed and burned all around me. It was my

said quickly.

"If I were stronger-*

closer to her. I dipped my head into her line of vision so she could see my

shook her head, clearly dissatisfied with herself. I couldn't talk. I knew exactly how it felt to not

oracle," Veronica said. "She's the

still didn't know if I could fully trust her. The oracle was a

reading." Veronica said. "I've only just started.

meant it from the bottom of my heart. I hoped she knew how much I appreciated her. I wasn't sure she would

ways, wanting to give her some

to Nicholas, who had just stepped out onto the deck from the house. She explained in her roundabout child way that Veronica had made it and given it

said to

in an attempt to replicate

distracted, Nicholas made his way over to me. Together we stood side by side. We both turned to look out

needed to cool down," Nicholas said.