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?"

I read about in this book." She motioned toward the merfolk book on the top of the bar.

up. She said 'remove them'! That should be exciting, a great sign! If the book talked about how to remove the curse, then

Veronica looked anything but happy

asked, because looking at Veronica, I

Elva's curse and the magical power level needed to

happen," 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

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I was beginning to suspect that it

one for false hope. Although in this case, it pulled my heart out a little. I wanted

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

the only

her curse?"

"What I do is mere child's play compared

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 not very good.

no," I said quickly. "This isn't on you

"If I were stronger-*

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

with herself. I couldn't talk. I knew exactly how it felt to not believe

Veronica said. "She's the

I wanted to arrive, to help Elva, but I still didn't know

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

hoped she

give her some space. I looked out over the water.

birdie!" She showed her folded bird to Nicholas, who had just stepped out onto the deck from the house. She explained in her roundabout child way

Frank," Nicholas said

attention waned fairly quickly after that and she rushed over to a pile of napkins in an attempt to replicate

we stood side by side. We both turned to look out over the

needed to cool down," Nicholas