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Crispin: Cross of Lead Chapter 16

Chapter 16

Crispin slowly approaches the church.
Through a window, he sees a huge man in a ridiculous multicolored costume; the man sees him, too.
Crispin and the man go back and forth for a while about where Crispin comes from, if he's hungry, and whether or not the king is just—deep stuff to talk about with someone you just met.
Crispin accepts the man's offer of food and enters the church.
Just as he gets close enough to take the food, though, the man reaches out and grabs him. Clearly no one taught Crispin much about stranger danger.

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