Chapter 14
Tivoli, Italy. Present day.
Little began her adventures, for adventures is how she was beginning to think of them, by way of the Sabine town of Tivoli. She stopped to hike the park that was Villa Gregoriana, learning firsthand how apt her aunt had been when she deemed it a fairy tale. She was soon glad that she had worn her sneakers, as the expanse of land was, in actuality, a bubble of another world, and it is always best to have on proper shoes for other worlds. The canyon was a wood, and within it she found herself walking through rampant ruins of an ancient Roman villa, scrunching down to fit through secret tunnels and then, at the other end, stretching out to look for the waterfalls. How lovely to be an element here, she thought as the wind carried a tiny spray from the w
