Book 2 - Ch. 98: Red Isn't My Color

There is a summer carnival going on with rides and games, along with food stands and street merchants. Tons of people are walking the streets, having a good time. Regardless of the two men following us, me Jace and Elise are having the time of our lives. It’s like Jace and I are getting a second chance at being young high schoolers once again. We blend in so well with them, that for one day we can pretend that we don’t have a care in the world.

“How about this one?” Jace asks as he stops at the hammer game.

I stand and watch the person at the helm take their turn lifting the huge sledgehammer and swinging it, hitting the metal plate and making the lever move up, but not ring the bell at the top. The prize for ringing it three times in a row is a teddy bear that is half my size.

“Only if you think you can hit it all three times. I wouldn’t want you making yourself look bad by not being able to hit it.” I tease him.

Jace takes it as a challenge and pays the carnival worker his money.