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?"

about in this book." She motioned toward the merfolk book on the top of the bar. "The book contains many sections on curses and how to

heartbeat kicked up and I perked up. She said 'remove them'! That should be exciting, a great sign! If the book talked about how to remove the curse, then maybe we didn't need to wait for the oracle to appear again

anything

that good news?" I asked, because looking at Veronica, I was really

power level needed to remove it. It's

to accept

Cóntent

purple. Is that good?" I was beginning to suspect that it

never one for false hope. Although in this case, it pulled my heart out a little. I wanted her to say purple was the best color, that it

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

power? Veronica was the only one I knew who

her curse?"

She sighed. "What I do is

I had built up for myself crashed and burned all around me. It was my own fault. I should have known from Veronica's expressions that the diagnosis was

I said quickly. "This isn't on you at

"If I were stronger-*

into her line of vision so she could see my face and know that I'm earnest. "We wouldn't even know any of this if it weren't for

shook her head, clearly dissatisfied with herself. I couldn't talk. I

the merfolk oracle," Veronica said. "She's the only one with enough power to

from my heart. I wanted to arrive, to help Elva, but I still didn't know if I could

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

hoped she knew how much I appreciated her. I

her some space. I looked out over the water.

onto the deck from the house. She explained in her roundabout child way that Veronica had made it and

Nicholas said to

after that and she rushed over to a pile of napkins in an attempt to replicate the bird. Unfortunately, Veronica didn't notice to be able to help. The

made his way over to me. Together we stood side by side. We both turned

cool down,"