The Kingdom Under the Willow

My knee was bouncing. My palms sweaty. Today is the Willow choosing. The day my life could end. No one knows why, but when the touch the the trunk of a Willow they drop dead nothing more nothing less. There is a myth of the kingdoms under the Willow Tree. They say there's a war about to happen. People say the Willow chooses the warrior. But that's just a fairy tale parents tell their kids for bedtime.

" Number 16739 " the lady over the microphone says. My heart stops that's me.

Leni Symons is 21 and wants to live her life to the fullest. But what happens when her number is called.