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"Do we really have to be digging through this stuff?" I ask Megan, who is covered in dust. I almost laugh, but then I realize that I must look the same.
"Yes! I thought that you were psyched about getting paid." She says, smiling at me.
"I wouldn't call it psyched." I say, as I scan through a stack of papers. I toss them back into the trunk. They aren't very important.
We are cleaning out Megan's attic for her parents. I wasn't excited about sitting in a tiny, dusty room for hours, but, hey, they were paying us. And I was completely broke.
I am regretting accepting, though. The attic is filthy, and spiders are everywhere. Not the tiny, little spiders that one would expect, either. By that time, I had already found two tarantulas. How the heck did they even get into the attic?
Then Megan says softly, "Come and look at this." I almost didn't hear her, she said it so quietly.
"What did you find?" I say as I walk over. I am expecting her to be holding some kind of fancy hat or something, but she isn't. Just a plain silver oakleaf pendent on a silver chain, and a manuscript of some sort.
I sit down next to her and read the title of the papers. The Lineage of Will Treaty . For a second, I think that I must be misreading it. I whisper to Megan, "Is that really what it is called?"
She nods, and we look at each other. Then we smile and tear through the pages, not stopping once.
When we finish, we look down at the silver oakleaf pendent, recognizing it's value. We stay silent. What we have discovered is the most unexpected thing that could ever happen to either of us.
If the papers are to be believed, we are both descended from Will Treaty.
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