Once I Was a Beehive Page #10

Your stomach's all clenched,

and your head feels

like it'll never stop pounding,

and your heart...

Feels like it's just gone.

It's the scariest feeling

in the whole entire world,

and you feel like it's never,

ever gonna go away.

And in a way, it wouldn't

feel right if it did,

but I promise you

that Roxy doesn't want

you to feel this way.

If she were here right now,

she'd...

She'd run right up to you,

she'd lick your face,

and she'd tell you

she loves you,

tell you it's okay for you

to try and be happy again.

She'd want you to look around

at all these people

who love you

and who are here for you

and who want to help you

through this.

If you want to go home,

we'll go, okay?

Just say the word,

and we're out of here.

But if you want to try and stay

and fight through this together,

we are all here for you.

What do you say?

I want to try.

For Roxy.

You all set for this?

Finalized everything

with the bishop this morning.

Okay, you asked for it.

Time for the trial of faith.

Yeah!

If you can complete the trial

as a group before sundown,

then you've earned

the right to stay.

If not, then it's sayonara,

sweethearts.

Is that fair?

- Yes.

- Ooh-rah!

Ooh-rah!

This year's trial of faith

is a quest to reach Noah's ark.

Will you be fit

to enter the ark,

or will you be washed away?

You must complete this task

together using only the supplies

provided in the backpack

in front of you, the holy Bible,

and your knowledge

of the golden rulebooks.

Prepare to be tried

both spiritually and temporally.

Mom, we love you,

but can we just please have

the first instruction?

- Oh, yeah.

- Okay.

"And behold,

as the daughters of Noah

did journey to the ark, they

were struck with a plague."

The first trial

and already a plague? Come on!

"Behold, even their leaders,

Bree and Paige,

became ill with fever."

No! Um,

"Phoebe was struck lame,

and Lane fell to the earth

as if she were dead."

I wanted that one.

"Those who were spared

did say unto one another,

"'let us bring them

to the fount of pure water

"that they may drink

and be cleansed."'

the spring?

Dibs on Phoebe.

- Mykelle.

- To the spring.

Faster.

Charlotte.

Okay, one, two.

Pretty quick start.

And a first aid certification.

Pound it.

- Let's not do that again.

- No.

- Go, go, go, go, go, go.

- I'm a-hurrying.

- Faster.

- Okay, okay.

One, two. One, two.

One, two.

One, two.

Guys, come on.

Hurry up, we're almost there.

Easy for you to say.

You're not carrying a moose.

- Hey!

- Oh, a very cute moose.

Mykelle, Mindy,

just go on without us.

- Go get the next clue, okay?

- Yes, Bree.

Fast, fast,

right around the bend.

Go, go.

We got one chance

to make this right.

Oh, my gosh, so much pressure.

Why do you need that?

Trust me.

Bible time.

Come on, come on. We got to go.

We got to go. We got to go.

She's gonna be so happy

we found it.

Mindy, you're going so fast!

"Depart ye, depart ye,

go ye out from thence.

"Touch no unclean thing.

"Go ye out of the midst of her.

"Be ye clean, that bear

the vessel of the lord."

- What does that mean?

- It's Isaiah.

No one knows what that means.

Vessel of the lord,

like, his blood vessels?

The vase. That's the vessel.

It must be dirty.

We have to purify the vase.

We need a fire.

Okay, those of you who have use

of their legs, grab wood, twigs,

and pine needles.

Also, we're gonna need eight

to ten stones for a fire circle.

No, Lane, you can't help until

we cure your plague, remember?

Right, sorry.

Hey, guys,

I don't see any matches in here,

but I did find this really cool

monocle and old-timey mustache.

We've made a huge mistake.

Don't watch it, Makenna.

Keep your eyes shut.

Hurry!

I had to cool it so it

wouldn't burn your face, Bree.

Come on. Come on, come on.

Nice to be alive again.

- Good to have you back.

- So what now?

Where's the next clue?

Was there another clue

back there?

- No, Bree.

- Well, maybe the trial's over

and we just won.

Hey, cheers.

We did it!

What's that?

More Isaiah.

Great.

Isaiah, Isaiah, Isaiah.

Isaiah 30:
14.

Okay. "It will break in pieces

like pottery,

"shattered so mercilessly that

among its pieces not a fragment

"will be found

for taking coals from a hearth

or scooping water

out of a cistern."

Okay, that one was pretty

straight forward, actually.

Guys, look.

All right, girls.

Keep your bibles handy.

This is the marker.

- We start from here.

- Okay.

First direction,

northeast 49 degrees.

Okay, how many paces?

"The number of days

the flood lasted

"times the days

it took to create the earth

divided by the width

of the ark in cubits."

- 230.

- That was fast. Are you sure?

Yeah, 40 times 7 is 280,

minus 5o cubits wide

is, like, 230.

- Good job, Charlotte.

- Yeah.

- Great job.

- What can I say?

Guys like smart chicks.

Not to be painfully ironic,

but it's actually 190.

Uh, Phoebe, I just did the math.

God created earth in six days.

He rested on the seventh one,

so 6 times 40 is 240,

minus 50 is 190.

- Technically she's right.

- Oh.

You were almost there, though.

It's okay. Guys like

almost-smart girls too.

Okay, ready? One, two...

Three, four, five,

six, seven, eight.

186, 187, 188, 189, 190.

Nice marker, mom.

- Yeah.

- Okay.

Okay, second direction,

"290 degrees northwest."

Okay, how many paces?

"The length of the ark

in cubits plus Noah's age

at the time of the flood divided

by Goliath's height in feet."

Easy, 100, give or take.

300 cubits long plus 600 is 900.

Goliath was roughly 9 feet tall,

so it's not exact,

but it's about 100.

Where did you get 9'?

Mine says he was

6 cubits and a span.

Exactly. A cubit's 450

millimeters or 18 inches,

and so that would be 3.2 meters

or 9 1/2 feet tall.

A span's, like, this big.

Guys,

these are common conversions.

Everyone should know them.

I think you're

actually smarter than Siri.

Come on, guys.

- Let's keep moving.

- All right.

One, two, three, four.

Five, six, seven, eight.

Guys, look at the sun.

We're running out of time.

We have to hurry.

I know, I know.

This is the last one.

"Number of days the floodwater

prevailed on the land

"times how high the water rose

in cubits divided by

"the number of lepers that did

not return to thank Jesus

"plus the number of sheep

the good Shepherd

"left behind when he went to

find the one minus the one

"he went to save

times the number of cattle

"in pharaoh's dream

minus the age of Methuselah

when Noah was born."

- Come on, Phoebe.

- Guys, I'm not gonna do it.

I'm not gonna be able

to finish this one.

- No, no, Phoebe.

- You can't give up now.

No, I refuse to even

think another second about it.

I am why?

'Cause I see the ark.

- Come on.

- Whoo!

- Come on!

Okay, there has to be a way in.

Is there a note or something?

Girls, look to the sides.

Uh, is there anything

left in the backpack we can use?

Um, just the stuff

we already used.

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