The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech

Author:Sharon Creech
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins

Pia and Enzio left the market and slowly made their way home.

“The Signora?” Enzio said. “You think she’s a thief?”

“No. Can’t be so. But then—”

“What?”

Pia stopped to tap her foot in a puddle. The water soaked through her straw sandal as she stared at the water. “She is mysterious, you agree?”

Enzio leaned down to retrieve a round pebble from the puddle. “Spooky, too.”

“But why would she give us these?” Pia tapped at the corno beneath her smock.

Enzio examined the pebble, black from the water, with a single sparkling fleck embedded in one side. “Maybe she stole them. Maybe she had to get rid of them.”

Pia reached for the sack at her side. “Then—ack— then we have more stolen things. I don’t like it.”

Nearing Pangini’s cottage, they heard deep voices. Outside stood two King’s Men, talking to an old man. Spotting Pia and Enzio, the old man shook his head vigorously and said loudly, “No, I don’t know where Pangini is, or the children.”

“No need to shout, old man.”

“I am sorry, I do not hear so good, and so I talk loud.”

Pia and Enzio backed away, and they might have escaped entirely had they not retreated directly into the path of two more King’s Men.

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