A Shine of Rainbows Page #3

Seamus and Nancy

are keen to play with you.

Come if you want.

I'll be there.

- Is he coming, Ma?

- Forget about him! Let's just go.

He's still getting

used to things a bit, so--

- Hello.

- Well, it's Tomas, is it?

Welcome to Corrie.

And are you finding

the island to your liking?

Di D-D-Didn't see much of it yet.

- Why are you talking like that?

- Seamus! Mind your tongue.

Tomas has a stammer.

He knows what he wants to say,

but sometimes...

the words just have

a hard time coming out.

What do you think?

Shall we take him to our hideout?

- It's a secret.

- Thanks very much. That's lovely.

- You'd keep a secret, right, Tomas?

- You'd better keep it.

Don't forget your oilskin.

It might rain today.

- Tomas, you coming?

- So...

how's himself taken to Tomas?

Oh, he's coming along.

- These things take time, you know.

- Mmm.

But I know every man wants

the child to be his own, and...

I know how hard you tried.

You throw like a chicken.

I throw like a rooster!

You're such a girl.

Rooster or chicken?

Rooster!

So how old are you then, five?

Seamus! Don't be an agent!

- Eight.

- You're not daft, are you?

Anybody can see

he's not daft, Seamus.

Well, are you then?

I'm not...

d-d-daft.

We'll see.

If you're eight...

you'll be coming to school

next week with me and Seamus.

Shh!

Don't stare at him.

He'll turn you to stone.

I thought he was King Fingal.

- He grants wishes.

- He was a king all right.

But how would you feel

being frozen for 3,000 years?

Crushed a sailor once who got in his way.

He's furious when he wakes up.

But Maire says he grants wishes.

- We have to climb up there and steal an egg.

- Why don't you go right now?

'Cause the bird hasn't laid one yet!

Besides we're going to the hideout.

Or have you lost your nerve?

Well, you coming or not then? Let's go!

Let's go!

What do you think? It's where King Fingal

and his court used to live.

- Is this your hideout?

- Hideout? This?

- Where are we?

- On the secret path.

King Fingal's sanctuary.

No one knew it existed till I found it.

- I found it, not you!

- Who made this?

King Fingal and his giants.

They made this cave.

They made everything.

Come on.

Don't worry. Bats eat bugs, not people.

No. They're blood-drinkers.

They'll suck you dry.

Come on. We're almost there.

Tomas, wait!

- Let him go.

- Tomas!

Wait!

You look like you saw a ghost!

- I- I-I s-

- Another time.

Yeah, when you're not a baby anymore.

Let's go see Molly's new kittens.

Okay.

Are you coming to school too, Ben?

- Wish it was him instead of me.

- He'd learn a lot more than you

if he went. Right, Ben?

I don't know what you're so happy about.

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