60. Sacred Feet

Alfonso and Siena looked wide-eyed at each other. The next second, as if moved by the same thoughts, they spontaneously held each other hand, and rushed toward the stairs going down to the bottom of the fort.

“Genius, Cherry! Going to the library does help after all!” Alfonso exclaimed, as he kept running down the stairs.

Siena couldn’t help laughing out loud. She recalled almost the same moment when they were in Palma. Back in the day, they solved the riddle on the tower of Castell de Belver. Then they rushed down from the tower, but yelling at each other. But now? They were holding hands! How different!

“Why do you laugh?” Alfonso looked at her, apparently confused.

“Oh, nothing…. I’m just…,” Siena kept laughing in between. “It feels like a déjà vu, but something is totally different….”