Quest for the Golden Arrow by Carrie Jones

Author:Carrie Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

The plane ride lasted hours and hours. The sun set and rose again. Eva spent the entire time eating bags of pretzels and biscotti while watching violent movies during which she would criticize the fighting techniques.

“That’s not an effective way to get out of a choke hold,” she would mutter, or, “That round kick is so easy to counter. Look, the Spartan monster troll left his entire left side unprotected.”

Jamie noticed that Annie had brought a book about demons and was focusing on that. Her hands would clench every once in a while. It took everything he had not to unclench her fingers for her, to just reach over there and try to pry them open. Annie looked a mess and he was worried for her.

SalGoud was watching some sort of history channel, and Bloom seemed just as bored as Jamie for most of the flight, fidgeting occasionally, attempting to take a nap and failing.

“In the world of elves, which ones are the best looking? The epic fantasy movie–kind or you?” Jamie asked Bloom, who just stared at him.

“Don’t ask him that,” Eva grumped. “He’ll start going off about how they make vampires sparkly now in movies.”

Mimicking Bloom’s voice, Eva and SalGoud said simultaneously, “Vampires are not attractive. Elves are sparkly.”

Bloom pulled the little navy blue blanket around his legs again and closed his eyes, ignoring them all. Not long after that the flight attendants collected all the garbage, getting ready for landing.

“I’m sorry … Sorry I asked. I didn’t realize they’d make fun of you,” Jamie said as soon as Bloom sat up straight again.

Bloom looked at him vacantly for a moment and said, “It’s okay. They—tensions are high right now. We are all nervous. I mean, look at Annie.”

Annie was twisting her hands again.

“I’m okay,” she announced and then lost all her confidence. “Really. I swear.”

Eva pointed at her hands. Annie abruptly stopped twisting them and sat on them instead.

“There’s just a lot—there’s a lot at stake,” Annie said finally. “Demons—demons are hard to deal with, to defeat. And … my grandparents …”

She lost her thought.

“You’re afraid they ain’t going to like you,” Eva said.

“Aren’t going to like you,” SalGoud corrected as he continued to play solitaire on the same screen that showed movies. It was built into the back of the seat.

“Sort of,” Annie admitted.

“People don’t like me all the time. Whatever. No big,” Eva bragged. “You should take it as a mark of having a larger-than-life personality. A personality that makes people go ‘Wow’ or ‘Uck’ is better than one that makes people do nothing at all. Plus, they are trolls if they don’t like you. You are very likable. Everybody likes you.”

“Not Megan,” Annie answered.

“That hag does not count. She’s got jealousy issues. Ain’t that what you said, SalGoud?” Eva nudged him as he put a queen of spades on top of a king of hearts.

“Isn’t. ‘Isn’t,’ Eva. ‘Ain’t’ is not a word.” SalGoud kept playing and didn’t actually answer Eva’s question.

“What. Ever.” Eva harrumphed.

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