CHAPTER 5SYNAEON
NAOMI
I felt awkward and underdressed next to Mrs. DiNovi, but I imagined most people would, including Heidi Klum and Princess Diana. She looked like a visiting foreign dignitary in her ivory gown, a wrap draped around her arms and her dark hair drawn up into a chignon. She insisted on sitting in the back of the car so that Wonder Tummy and I didn’t have to crawl through. I felt like a child playing dress-up whose mother was graciously hiding her annoyance with the charade.
“So, we’re driving? I thought, it being a Shadow event, that we might shade there.” I actually sounded more nervous than I felt, which was hardly fair.
“It would be difficult for me to shade two people,” Mrs. DiNovi said. “And it’s good for a few people to drive. We wouldn’t want anyone to wonder ho
