Select the group of words that best represents effective diction for an adventure story O she wiped the dust off the top of the box, careful not to damage it any further. This had been her father's, and her grandfather's before that. Passed down
throughout generations, it was supposed to contain important letters, but about what? The soft dust smeared slightly as she stroked the lid with her palm,
Her nose tingled. She thought of her grandfather when he was young and away at war, Did these letters contain the words of hope he sent home? The
promises that kept her grandmother waiting for two lonely years?
She whacked the stupid, old box It had to have been the dirtiest thing she'd ever seen All those lectures from her dad about cleaning her room when she
was a kid-hal What a joke. But suddenly she froze and listened, was someone else in the room with her? She looked up at the ceiling, and there he was a
man clad all in black with a scarf around his face He was hanging from the wooden beam above her head. She had just a split second to think before she
dodged and rolled under the dusty rocking chair He dropped inches from where she had been standing. She jumped back to her feet and held the chair in
front of her. It creaked, "What do you want? Stay away the dark eyes peered at her from beyond the scarf. A quiet voice whispered, "I'm here to take the
box
She picked up the box silently with shaking hands, never taking her eye off the shadowy doorway just across the attic. Had it followed her up here? No,
that was crazy thinking. There was nothing following her. She was alone. She blew on the lid of the box, and dust puffed into the air like a smoke screen. For
a moment she couldn't see, and her pulse pounded in her ears. The attic floor creaked. She nearly cried out in alarm, but then the room was still again. She
took a deep breath Better work fast
O She grabbed a rotting wooden box and a few moth-eaten blankets and tossed them into the trash bin This attic would be clean before dinner...even if
that meant dinner had to wait until midnight. She surveyed the room. It was the kind of task that might take a team of five less than an hour to complete, but
she didn't have a team of five. This was her job. Everybody thought she was wasting her time, but she knew she could make something of this place.
Shoulders straight, head up, she snatched up a broom and got back to work
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