Chapter Ten(5)

Lydia seemed very relieved at the returning peaceful atmosphere, and Cecy dared to walk towards Alberto and stopped halfway when she saw things piled haphazardly on the floor.
She stooped to retrieve them, and then noticed Lydia’s black backpack sitting unharmed a few feet away. She glanced at the objects grasped in her hand: a piece of old newspaper now rolled into half a ball, a pair of blunt children’s scissors, and two balls of string of different colors, and found that only a few items had fallen down with the bag: just a coil of rope and the bottle of water.