Read the excerpt from “On the Mountain.”That's when it happened. A three-hundred-year-old Douglas fir extended a root like a big, gnarled foot over the path and, not seeing the hazard, Jess fell right over it and landed hard on her knee. For a moment she just stayed there, blinking back the tears that threatened to fill her eyes.
Read the excerpt from "On the Mountain.”Half an hour later, she knew she was going to have to be more resourceful. With the sun moving across the sky toward sunset, she opened her daypack to see what she had to work with. A cell phone, of course, but there was no reception in the area. Flashlight, protein bar, whistle, extra sweater, bandages, aspirin, burn cream, space blanket, peanuts, water bottle, matches, pocket knife. She ate some peanuts and took a couple of aspirin with a swig of water from her canteen, hoping they would relieve the pain in her knee.
Read the excerpt from Between the Silver and the Ash.KENNETHBut if she found it . . .XAVIERShe put something else there. Just for me. She died last year, you know. She put something in the hiding place for me before she died. I've been following her clues for a year. This is the last one.KENNETHWhy didn't she just give it to you? Whatever it is?XAVIERShe said I needed to learn persistence. I always gave up on things. So she hid her gift in the forest so I would learn to persevere.KENNETHWell, it doesn't look like you're going to get it, no matter what.
Read the scene from Between the Silver and the Ash.They sit in silence. The sound of the brook gets louder. Suddenly, XAVIER jumps up and runs to the back of the stage between the trees.
Read the excerpt from Between the Silver and the Ash.They sit in silence. The sound of the brook gets louder. Suddenly, XAVIER jumps up and runs to the back of the stage between the trees.XAVIERThe joyous sounds of spring. The joyous sounds of the spring. The spring!KENNETH(Jumping up) Where rocks and pebbles sing. The water going over the rocks and pebbles. And you can't get to it in wintertime because the spring is frozen then.XAVIER(From behind the trees) The treasure is in the spring, between the ash tree and the silver beech.
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