The Half-a-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman

Author:Paul Fleischman
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins

Aaron peered in astonishment at the dream dancing across the man’s eye—and realized Miss Grackle had looked into his own the same way.

“And if you find us any royalty,” Miss Grackle continued, “we won’t even bother with lifting his purse, but take him prisoner instead, and ransom him back for a wagonload of gold. Aye, and move into a manor ourselves. Now pull up a chair to that one yonder—and keep your eyeballs sharp for silks and jewels!”

Aaron did as she said, pulled back the man’s lid and watched the fantasies float across his eye like clouds through the sky. Perhaps one of the guests had seen his mother in Craftsbury, or passed her somewhere along the road—perhaps she’d turn up in the background of a dream.

For hours Aaron combed through the callers’ visions, carefully searching for just a glimpse of his mother, or their horse, or merely the sea. He saw pigs with wings and wagons that sped along without horses, but nothing of what he was looking for, and no sign of lords or ladies.

Far into the night they looked into dreams, Aaron’s stomach rumbling with hunger and his eyes growing heavy as gold doubloons. When Miss Grackle herself began to yawn, she led him to her bedroom and had him build her a fire. Then she marched him down the hall to his own room, where he dropped straight into sleep before she could turn the key in the lock.

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