Shadowbridge (2007)
“And he knew she hadn’t yet returned by the time he fell asleep; but he’d no inkling that she had come back with someone in tow, or that the booth now concealed a new member of the troupe.
Pushing his way through the curtain at the rear, he found a boy asleep upon the undaya cases and concluded reasonably that he’d come upon a vagrant who’d chosen the darkness of the unattended booth to sleep off his drunk.
“Of all the damned cheek!” he bellowed, and lunged.
The boy reacted by rolling away from ...the shout, and fell off the cases. Soter banged his foot against a lute that hadn’t been there the night before and sprawled across the top case. The only thing he caught was the small nay flute that had been lying beside the boy. In pain and frustration he cursed and clutched his leg.
At that point Leodora pierced the entrance behind him. Soter glanced back at her, triumphantly waved the small flute, and cried, “I caught this little thief pilfering from the puppet cases!”
The boy stuck his head over the top of the case.MoreLess
Pushing his way through the curtain at the rear, he found a boy asleep upon the undaya cases and concluded reasonably that he’d come upon a vagrant who’d chosen the darkness of the unattended booth to sleep off his drunk.
“Of all the damned cheek!” he bellowed, and lunged.
The boy reacted by rolling away from ...the shout, and fell off the cases. Soter banged his foot against a lute that hadn’t been there the night before and sprawled across the top case. The only thing he caught was the small nay flute that had been lying beside the boy. In pain and frustration he cursed and clutched his leg.
At that point Leodora pierced the entrance behind him. Soter glanced back at her, triumphantly waved the small flute, and cried, “I caught this little thief pilfering from the puppet cases!”
The boy stuck his head over the top of the case.MoreLess
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