Felicity sits up so quickly I can still feel the warmth of her next to me, trailing behind her by seconds. "How absolutely perfect! Gemma, you are our genius." I'm a little embarrassed, so I twist the stem of the apple in my hand till it breaks with a snap. Felicity pulls my hand to her mouth and bites into the fruit cupped there. Her mouth is sticky sweet from it as she kisses me full on the lips. I have to put my hand to them to stop the tingling, and a blush has flooded my entire body.
Felicity raises the apple and my arm into the air, both held tight in her pale fist."Ladies, I give you the Order, reborn!"
"The Order, reborn!" we all echo, our voices bouncing around the cave in ripples of sound. Pippa actually embraces me. We're alive with our new secret, with the way we belong to each other an do something other than the dull passing of hours with nothing to look forward to besides our routines. It makes me feel even more powerful than the whiskey, and I want it to go on forever.
"Do you suppose there was really such an order of women?"
Felicity snorts. "Don't be daft, Pip. It's a fairy tale.
Pippa is hurt. "I only wondered, that's all."
I don't want the spell of our evening to be broken so fast.
"What if it were true?" The slim leather-bound diary is in my hands and out in the open before I can really think about it." page 142-143
- How do you think that Gemma came upon the name, "The Order"?
- Do you think that might have something to do with the diary of Mary Dowd?
Gemma came up with the name, "The Order" well because she was reading the diary, and maybe it's also because she can related to Mary Dowd because they had the same powers.
ReplyDeleteGemma got the name "The Order" from both the diary and the stories Miss Moore told them. I agree with Edina, she felt connected to the diary and the name The Order because of the powers they had.
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