Hide and Seek by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Childrens
ISBN: 9781338221558
Goodreads: 53153751
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2020-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

Okay, students,” Dr. Vogel announced, Wednesday in Flare class. “Fill your jars with cold tap water. We’ll be heating the water to ninety degrees precisely, and I want you to aim for speed and accuracy.”

Everyone filled their jars and took out their thermometers.

Elliott was worried. He could not heat his water in less than seventy seconds. He just couldn’t do it. He’d keep trying, but he wasn’t sure it would ever work.

Dr. Vogel went around the room checking people’s times.

She stood in front of Lacey. “You were able to do it in under ten seconds, correct?”

“Um, yup,” Lacey said.

“Excuse me?” Dr. Vogel said.

Lacey’s cheeks turned pink. “Yes I was, Dr. Vogel.”

“Let’s see.”

Lacey placed her thermometer in the glass and then her hands on the jar. She focused on the jar, her jaw clenched in determination.

“Go,” the teacher said, pressing the timer.

At ten seconds, the thermometer said sixty-five degrees. At twenty seconds, it was at seventy-nine. At thirty it was at only eighty-eight. Lacey finally hit ninety degrees at thirty-nine seconds.

The teacher’s eyebrows were raised.

“There’s something wrong with this thermometer,” Lacey protested. “I did it in under ten back in the dorms.”

“Mmm,” said the teacher.

“Or maybe my water started off colder than everyone else’s.” Lacey glared at Elliott. “I bet the wonko froze it. You did, didn’t you?”

“No, Lacey, I didn’t,” he said.

Dr. Vogel turned to Elliott. “You’re up.”

Elliott took a deep breath and picked up his jar. “I don’t think I can beat seventy-two seconds,” he told her. “That’s the best I did in my homework.”

Dr. Vogel nodded. Elliott began. He focused all his energy on the water in his jar, trying to push heat out of his body and into the water.

Lacey and Rune tittered.

“I just grew a beard waiting,” Rune said.

“He’s the worst at Dunwiddle, too,” Lacey explained to the Sage student next to her. “He’s in the special slow class and everything.”

Elliott tried to ignore them.

Hotter. Hotter. Hotter. The water heated up to the required temperature in sixty-seven seconds!

“Better than you led me to expect,” Dr. Vogel said. “A question: Do your hands get cold halfway through?”

Elliott was surprised. How did she know? “Um, yeah,” he said apologetically. “I have to fight off the cold.”

“Have you ever tried Hex gloves?”

“What are those?”

“They’re special gloves that just came out a few years ago. They’re supposed to help Flares with pinched nerves.” Dr. Vogel tapped her chin. “I wonder if your freezing magic is pinching your flaring magic. Want to try the gloves? I have a pair in my desk.”

She rummaged through her drawer and returned with a pair of black fingerless gloves. They were leather, and tight on his wrists.

She brought Elliott a jar of fresh tap water.

He tried again to heat the water, and this time when he pushed on his magic, his hands stayed hot! The freezing didn’t overtake his flaring!

“Twenty-three seconds,” said Dr. Vogel, checking her stopwatch. “Very nice.”

“Whoa!” Elliott said.

The teacher smiled. “Hold on to the Hex gloves while you’re here. I think they’ll help you.

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