The Third Side of the Coin
Or maybe he could have made visual contact with it as he skipped by, but he surely wouldn't have stopped to check it out or pick it up.
When a hard jagged tip of his right sole slipped into a grate hole and almost toppled him over as he picked up the coin, he should have seen it as an omen.
But I doubt our main character even knew what omens were.
He flicked the hard, dry chips of mud off the coin and examined it at all angles. Now that the mud was gone, a streak of light made a bright spot of light wink on an edge. Finian realized the coin was pretty new after all. It was of a shiny, dark silver
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