MIRA I turn around one more time to make sure that it’s not my imagination. I am alone here. I read about it in the book with the rules for the Selection. If the person your heart desires to see doesn’t feel the same then you will get to a place of significant importance to you and spend your time there alone. And that’s what is happening to me. I gave myself to Derrien Derwood in that hut… It is an important place for me. And now it is mocking me. Silly Mira, who thought that a man like him could fall for her… Derrien doesn’t want to see me. He doesn’t want me… He doesn’t choose me…He doesn’t love me! I lean with my back on a nearby oak tree and gradually slide down to the ground, tears rolling down my cheeks as I give out a loud lonely sob. He doesn’t love me… No, it can’t be

