Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo

Author:Jenny Nimmo [Nimmo, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Juvenile Fiction, Action & Adventure
ISBN: 9781405211383
Publisher: Egmont Books
Published: 1986-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

his hand from her shoulder. Her fingers were ice-cold. Gwyn gasped when she touched his hand.

"What is it?" she asked.

"You're so cold," he replied.

Eirlys smiled. Her eyes were greeny blue, like arctic water. It was as though they had once been another color, but that other color had been washed away.

When they got to the classroom Gwyn told Mr. James that he had slipped in the snow. Eirlys said noth-ing. Mr. James nodded. "Get on with your work now," he said.

Eirlys and Gwyn went to their desks. Everyone stared. Dewi Davis was still holding his nose, and Gwyn remembered what he had done. All through the next lesson, through the pain in his head, he kept think-ing of what he had done to Dewi Davis. He had hit him with magic.

Something had come out of his hand and flown into Dewi's face, something that had come to him from Gwydion, the magician, and from Gwy-dion's son, who had once ruled Gwynedd.

And it was the same thing that had turned the seaweed into a ship, the brooch into a spider, and the whistle into a silver pipe. These last three, he realized, had merely been waiting for him to release them. They had been there all the time, just waiting for his call. But when he had hit Dewi Davis, he had done it by himself. He had wanted to hurt Dewi, to smash his silly, cruel face, and he had done it, not with a stone nor with his fist, but with his will and the power that had come from Gwy-dion. If he could do that, what could he not do?

While Gwyn dreamed over his desk, he was un-aware of Eirlys watching him. But Alun Lloyd noticed, and he wondered why the girl gazed at Gwyn with her aquamarine eyes. Alun was uneasy.

During the day Gwyn's aches and pains receded, and he was able to hobble to the school bus unaided. When he got off the bus, however, he could not run up the lane, and he felt trapped.

Alun was lingering be-hind the rest of his family, watching him.

"You O.K.?" Alun asked Gwyn.

"Yes, I'm O.K."

"D'you want me to walk up with you?"

"No," Gwyn replied. "I said I was all right, didn't I?"

"Are you sure?" Alun persisted. He turned to face Gwyn and began to walk up the hill backwards.

"They didn't hurt me that bad," Gwyn said angrily. "I just can't walk that fast."

"I suppose she's going to help you?" Alun said. He was still walking backwards and looking at someone behind Gwyn.

"Who?"

"Her!" Alun nodded in the direction of the main road. Then he turned and ran up the lane.

Gwyn glanced over his shoulder to see what Alun had meant. Eirlys was walking up towards him.

"What are you doing?" Gwyn shouted. "You don't get off here!"

The girl just smiled and kept coming.

"You'll be in trouble! How're you going to get home?"

"I'll walk," said Eirlys.

"Oh heck!" cried Gwyn.

"Don't worry!" The girl continued her approach and Gwyn waited, unable to turn his back on her.

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