Selena requested a private audience with King Victor the following afternoon, and word of it reached Luna within hours, carried through the usual channels of palace gossip that never seemed to move fast enough when she needed information and always moved too fast when she didn't.
"She's pushing for something," Diana said, setting down a stack of folded linens in the staff room where Luna sat during her break, picking at a sandwich she had no appetite for. "My cousin works in the King's outer office. Said Selena went in looking like she'd already won something."
"Won what, though? The Ceremony's still a week away."
"I don't know. But she came out smiling." Diana sat across from her, lowering her voice even though the room was empty. "Luna, maybe you should think about laying low until th
