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Meet Tenley Tylwyth, an Elemental Teen born with the power to produce weather. Cool? Not really. Elementals who can create weather make Mother Nature angry. It’s time she got rid of them. Only one thing is standing in her way—Fair Ones. These ancestors of fairies keep kids like Tenley safe, but when rookie Fair One, Pennie, fails to do so, she’s forced to travel to Earth—a place where no Fair One wants to go. Now, Pennie has forty-eight hours to convince Tenley to give up her power. It won’t be so easy. Tenley’s got a way with wind. And after falling deep into Mother Nature’s gardens, where trees grow upside down and insects attack on command, a little wind might be just what Tenley needs to survive. Even if it kills her.
Operation Tenley (The Fair City Files #1)
by Jennifer Gooch Hummer
Publication Date: September 13, 2016
Publisher: Month9Books
Chapter 36
Above them, a gigantic pink petal, the size of a hula-hoop, was creaking
downwards. Halfway to them, it jerked to a stop. Then it started again. Just as
it looked like it was going to land directly on top of Tenley, the petal jerked
violently, swung to the right and then to the left, and finally slammed against
the tree trunk across from them, nestling itself inside a branch.
“Snail secretions!” a voice from inside yelled. “Need a filter
change!”
“Yeah. Um, hello?” Holden ventured.
The same voice fell into a coughing fit.
“Lame-alarm,” Tenley whispered, rolling her eyes.
The petal shifted around until an antique-looking woman, four feet
tall at most and wearing a wilted crown of purple flowers and dead branches,
popped up.
“You’re so old,” Tenley said.
“Tenley,” Holden warned, except she was right. The woman’s face looked
like it had been sketched in with pencil and her faded red hair was piled high
under the wilting crown.
The old woman squinted back and forth at both of them. “Fair One or
sipLip?” she asked in a raspy voice, pointing a crooked finger.
“Ah—” Holden hesitated.
“Wait. Did you say Fair One?” Tenley asked.
“Which one are you?” the old
woman demanded.
“I’m a kid?” Holden answered.
“And you?” She pointed to
Tenley.
“A more popular kid?”
The old woman considered them.
“Humans. How did you get into my gardens?”
“Yeah, about that,” Holden said. “We don’t know. We were on the Log Ride
in another part of the park, and she was about to fall over the edge,” he
nodded to Tenley, “the next thing we knew we landed in here instead. Somewhere down
there, to be specific.” He pointed through the trees.
The old woman narrowed her eyes. “What do you seek?”
“A lemonade?” Holden smiled. “I’m dying.”
“How convenient,” the old woman said.
Tenley frowned. “I don’t want some stupid lemonade. I got my hair
ripped out and my Uggs muddy. I just want to get back to our bus and wait for
this whole thing to be over. I have a big night tonight.” She checked on her
sash and noticed the new gash in it. “No!” she cried.
Jennifer Gooch Hummer is the award-winning author and screenwriter of her debut novel, Girl Unmoored (SparkPress). Girl Unmoored has also been published in German (Carlsen). Jennifer has worked as a script analyst for various talent agencies and film studios. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three daughters.
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