Skade and the Enchanted Snow by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams

Author:Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2020-03-10T00:00:00+00:00

8 Tricks

AFTER SEVERAL HOURS OF FRESH air and sunshine on the slopes, Skade came across Freya. “Guess what? Surt’s here!” she told her friend right away.

Freya’s blue eyes went wide with concern. “Surt the fire giant?” She glanced this way and that as if to spot him. “Where? Is he as scary-looking as they say?”

Skade nodded downhill to where he and some other members of his team were skiing. “You be the judge. He’s right over there.”

Looking at the fire giants, she and Freya both shivered. “Definitely scary,” they murmured at the same time. Their whole team wore bright red sweaters and boots decorated with yellow flames. As the captain, Surt’s had yellow and orange flames. These bold outfits were obviously meant to intimidate. Plus, he was carrying his sword while skiing. Which was not only weird—it was dangerous!

“Too bad we didn’t have more time to get ready for this competition. I could’ve made matching outfits for our team,” Freya said wistfully.

“Hmm. I wonder if Asgard was the last team to be invited. On purpose,” mused Skade.

“To give us less time to prepare, you mean?” Freya considered the idea. “Sadly, that sounds like something the frost giants might do.” Then, obviously recalling that Skade was from Jotunheim, she hurriedly added, “No offense.”

“None taken. What you said is true,” said Skade. She had braided her hair before hitting the slopes and now flipped the single braid over one shoulder to hang at her back. “We’ll just have to make the best of it. Someone had to be last to hear, after all. And we’ll still win.” Hmm. Saying that last bit had actually made her feel a tingle of her old confidence. And it wasn’t pretend confidence either!

Although frost giants were troublemakers, fire giants were a different story. They were pure evil. At Asgard Academy, the students had all learned that Surt and his friends would be the force behind Ragnarok, if it ever came about. Destroying Yggdrasil and all the worlds just so they could become the bosses of whatever would be left was definitely an evil plan. This competition was supposed to be about making friends. At least partly. But could anyone make friends with evil?

Why had the fire giants decided to attend this competition? Skade wondered. If she hadn’t been afraid of being overheard by others, she might have asked for Freya’s thoughts on the matter. But really, neither of them could possibly know the reason. And the slopes were calling to them. So they took off in the opposite direction of the fire giants, skiing side by side.

Whee! Both girlgoddesses were soon happily zooming down one run after another. They all had fun names, such as Don’t Look Down, Beary Steep, and even Yikes. Each was marked with a colored sign to indicate its level of difficulty. Ski runs marked with a green sign were the easiest, wide with gentle slopes. Blue runs got a little harder. Black ones became still more challenging. But any run with two black diamonds on its sign could mean trouble even for experienced skiers like Freya and Skade.

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