"Nina Kiriki Hoffman - The World Within" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hoffman Nina Kiriki)

"A champion?" Aria said. She thought of all the annoying things Pell did, the
trouble Pell caused. Sometimes Pell made the bed jump when Aria and her mother
were already asleep. Sometimes the lights went on and off even when Aria was
reading. Sometimes things disappeared m a pair of earrings, the house keys --
and couldn't be found; hours later or sometimes days, the things turned up right
where they had been before they disappeared. Aria had never seen a pattern in
the haunting. It had just been one long chain of annoyances.

"Pell won't let your heart smother," said Mrs. Bridge. She went to the
bookshelf, pulled out the album covers and brought them to the table.

Two sheets of lined paper shot out of Aria's school notebook and drifted down in
front of Mrs. Bridge.

"Thank you," she said, smiling, and pulled a pen out of her purse.

"You're welcome," Aria whispered. She looked at what was left of the tea splash.
Some kind of vision. She could almost see a forest. Trees, anyway. She studied
it a little while before she wiped it away.