The Ravens of Solemano or The Order of the Mysterious Men in Black by Eden Unger Bowditch

Author:Eden Unger Bowditch [Bowditch, Eden Unger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bancroft Press
Published: 2013-09-12T22:43:00+00:00

Dressed in their warmest clothes—Wallace was wearing double layers—the children spent the morning romping around. They built snowmen, snow angels, and snow ravens. Jasper and Noah threw snowballs at one another. Wallace managed to hide behind a large drift and avoid the entire snowball duel.

Faye was blissfully happy at this incredible new experience. Snow was amazing. She touched it and rolled in it. She followed Lucy’s lead, sticking out her tongue and catching flakes. She completely ignored the ruckus the boys were making.

It was the snowball Noah threw at Faye that brought Faye out of her serenity

“You blasted idiot! You did that on purpose, hitting me in the face.” Faye, snow down her back and inside her coat, was wet, cold, disheveled, and quite furious when they came in for lunch.

“Of course I did,” said Noah, shaking off the piles of snow that had fallen down his own collar. “I thought you liked the snow. I wanted to help you get better acquainted with it. Hey!” Noah leaned back, nearly falling off his seat as Faye stood up, shooting daggers with her eyes. “See, that’s the problem, Faye. You don’t know how to make nice.”

Faye was turning scarlet. She knew she should let it go, that Noah was being silly, and that, like earlier, it was just his way, but that last comment had hit her where it hurt most. She was not very good at being a friend, and she hated being bad at anything.

“You ruin everything!” she cried at Noah. In a rage, she pulled her arm back, but Miss Brett caught it before it made contact with Noah’s face. But it was as if the slap really had hit him. His face fell when he saw the expression on Faye’s. While he was able to hitch his smile back on, inside he felt bad. He hadn’t meant any real harm. Faye, on the other hand, had.

“All right, you two,” Miss Brett said. She had put down the tea tray and, holding Faye’s arm, gave them both a warning look. “No more of this nonsense. Noah, learn how to tame your tongue. Faye, you know that Noah has a problem teaching his tongue to stop wagging. Both of you, be aware of yourselves. You are not alone.”

Faye gulped. “Yes, Miss Brett.”

“Well,” Noah said, arms akimbo, “I do need to housebreak that part of me.”

“Too true,” said Jasper with a friendly pat on Noah’s back and a nod to Faye,

“Very good,” said Miss Brett as she served hot, thick soup and fresh bread. They had bowls of olive oil, sprinkled with coarse salt, to dip the bread in, as well as fresh butter and tapenade. “And honestly, I think it’s pretty funny that five brilliant young inventors are throwing snowballs. I am sure, Faye, that you could invent something to throw them far more effectively.”

“Far more effectively than Noah, certainly,” Faye said, glowering.

“I meant more effectively than having a war like this,” said Miss Brett.

“Oh, we shall have a war,” Faye said.

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