3 The Bard

CHAPTER 3

The Bard Clara stopped searching the sky for clues and listened. Someone was playing a merry tune on a pipe nearby. "It's coming from over there!" she said, pointing to another thicket of berry bushes.

The children crept quietly around the thicket and pulled back some branches. Ruskin burrowed under the brush to get a better look. There, in a clearing, stood a slender young man. He had chestnut brown hair tucked under a green felt hat. He wore a wool tunic and trousers, had a number of instruments hanging on straps from his belt, and had a guitar case by his feet. Two fairies fluttered on either side of him.

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"It looks like a bard," whispered Lucas. A bard was a traveling musician. Lucas had seen them come to Wrenly before. They traveled throughout kingdoms and played music in the castles and inns along the way. Clara nodded. The bard played his pipe for a small bird in a tree above. Clara thought it might be a fairywren. The sandy-brown bird cocked her head as she listened to the music. Then she chirped and twittered the same tune back to the bard in response.

Ruskin let out a growl and leaped through the bramble. He bounded up to the man with the pipe and sniffed his trousers. The bard backed away uncomfortably. The fairies buzzed around Ruskin's head and scolded him.