Ugggh! One of those girly stories they had to read? And worst yet, out loud? Adi grumbled in his head as the others started to read a bit one after the other. He was going to delay reading for as long as he could.

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Finally, it seemed he could stall no longer. Heaving a sigh, he picked up from where Abigail had left off. "Tons of years later,'' Adi narrated, "another son of a king visited the country. He heard the story of the thorn hedge and the castle in which the princess was in dreamland for one hundred years.'' That was as much as the Puffer was reading. Who's next?