Fonte della Noce is a much more suggestive place! Larìs thought to herself. I don’t understand, maybe this place was originally enchanting. It may have been altered by that landslide, which for sure will have also blocked access to the underground passages. There, under the debris, there is probably the entrance to a cave.
While absorbed in these thoughts, as if from nowhere, Stefano Carrega appeared. With a shiver, the girl turned and saw him sitting on a rock, intent on smoking a long pipe. He got up, surrounded by the cloud of dense smoke he exhaled, and freed Scirocco from his bridle, urging him to return to Triora and reach his stall. After that, he approached Larìs, who had remained motionless, as if petrified, in the presence of the object of her feelings. Stefano handed her a pipe
