ELLA QUICKLY MADE HER way home and changed into warmer clothes, trying to think back on when the temperature had ever been like this. The house was freezing! The thermostat was off but read sixty degrees. Arizona was not the place for this kind of cold, especially in April.
“How weird,” Ella muttered to herself, then jumped when a loud crash thundered through the walls. She hurried to the window and scrunched her face in confusion. Dark clouds crawled across the skies. But there hadn’t been any clouds when she walked home from school.
Ella's gaze drew to a flickering silver streak in the sky that looked somewhat like a strip of foil hanging in the atmosphere. Light danced off it like sunlight glimmering on a river.
What is that?
The same whispery sigh she heard in her classroom swept t
