5 Eavesdroppers

CHAPTER 5

Eavesdroppers Lucas and Clara each collected a bow and quiver of arrows and set them down in the courtyard. Gray clouds rushed by overhead as they prepared their targets. Then they took turns aiming for the bull's-eye. "That makes three out of six!" Lucas said proudly. "Ha-ha! Four out of six for me!" Clara said.

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Then they raced to the targets to collect the arrows. As the kids pulled out the arrows, they overheard one of the knights talking to his captain on the walkway above them. "Captain, I've come to report some odd happenings in the castle," he said. Lucas and Clara stopped what they were doing and listened. "What kind of odd happenings?" the captain asked. The knight told his story in a hushed voice. "Well, when I was on my rounds in the West Turret, a wave of cold mist flooded the stairwell." Lucas and Clara looked at each other with wide eyes. The knight continued. "And as I moved into the passageway I heard somebody whispering, but nobody was there." The captain cleared her throat and asked, "It's

good that you brought this to me first. Have any of the other knights reported such happenings?"

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