For the first time since junior school, Gemma had a friend who was a girl. Finally! She now had someone to talk girl stuff with. Stuff like that edible nail polish she’d seen recently, and the crush she had on Rick the Seer trainee, and her super embarrassing secret: the one about never having been kissed before. No way could she mention things like that to Perry or Ned. Ned would turn red and exit the conversation as quickly as possible, and Perry would simply laugh at her. Then he’d probably ask if he could taste the edible nail polish.
So Gemma was immensely grateful for Calla Larkenwoods’s arrival. Sure, Calla was guarded and quiet, but that was because of her crazy assumption that Gemma, Perry and Ned would soon wind up afraid of her. And it was true that the stories about her making
