The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman

Author:Lev Grossman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-09-02T23:00:00+00:00

There was a machine where you could type any flavor and it would deliver that flavor of jelly beans, by the pound. There was every candy bar ever made. Above all there was chocolate: milk chocolate, white chocolate, dark chocolate, solid bricks and bars of it wrapped in silver and gold foil. There were trays and trays of chocolates stuffed with caramel and cherries and nuts and nougat and coconut and toffee and cream and pretzels and everything else you could imagine and a lot of things you couldn’t.

It was all arranged by size and type and flavor and color, as neatly and carefully as a library. And it was all free, and it was all theirs.

“You laughed when I asked for a candy car,” Tom said.

“I know.”

“You thought it was funny.”

“Whatever! You were right! Don’t rub it in!” She hated when Tom was right. But if he had to be right about something, she was glad it was this. “Come on, let’s see if we can eat one of everything. Except the coconut ones. Those are all yours.” She hated coconut almost as much as she hated Tom being right.

But that night she never even made it past the chocolates, and Tom got stuck trying to stump the jelly bean machine till he couldn’t eat any more.

Afterward they walked back together, happy, not talking, knowing that their cozy sleeping car was waiting for them, stopping only at the boxcar to make sure the polar bear was warm and sleeping peacefully. The train was chugging along beside a mountain lake as flat and smooth as glass. At home there were always streetlights around to spoil the night sky, but now, far away from the cities and suburbs, Kate and Tom really saw for the first time in their lives the blazing-white Milky Way spilling out across the deep black sky, which was perfectly reflected in the black mirror of the lake.

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