Josh moved purposefully through the dark streets, and the others followed. He seemed to know the way now, almost as though he’d been here before. Jenny saw a look of grim concentration on her friend’s face. It wasn’t a look she remembered ever seeing before — at school Josh had always seemed so unserious. “How well do we know anyone?” she mused. <\/p>\n
But at that moment Jenny’s thoughts were interrupted when Josh stopped abruptly in his tracks.<\/p>\n
“What is it?” Mr. Symarian said.<\/p>\n
Josh just stood silently for a moment. His eyes seemed to refocus, to come back to the here and now. “I don’t really know. It just feels like I’m supposed to stop.”<\/p>\n
Suddenly Jenny gasped out loud. “This buildling,” she said, pointing to the building they had stopped in front of, “look at it. Josh, what do you see?”<\/p>\n
“Looks like a building to me,” he said, looking puzzled.<\/p>\n
“I’ll second that,” Sid said. “Definitely a building. Tall, square, kinda rococo, not really my thing.”<\/p>\n
“Shhh!,” Jenny said. “Sid, be quiet. This is important. Josh, haven’t you seen this somewhere before?”<\/p>\n
Josh stared at the building for a good long while. Then recognition dawned. “It looks just like your music box — the one from the attic. Only bigger. And there’s no ballerina on top.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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