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A scream wakes Anna from another dream about the handsome Italian teenager; the sound came from the room shared by Benny and Christopher, and Anna knows that her brother must be having a night terror. Benny rushes outside, and Anna follows to comfort him. He explains that he dreamed of a smothering weight atop him.
The next day, the family heads to a local market. Mia and Waverley talk about wanting to play with some Italian children they’ve befriended, and no one knows whom they mean. Nicole is agitated and lashes out at Anna when she realizes that she has gotten the schedule wrong and that there is no market today.
Irritated by the family squabbling, Anna wanders into a local church. She is struck by the painting of the Annunciation (a traditional scene from Christian iconography depicting Mary learning that she will give birth to Jesus). She also notices that there are multiple gravestones for individuals with the surname de Felicibus, all of whom died in 1505. The gravestones feature an engraving of a jackdaw (a type of bird similar to a crow), which is also the emblem of the villa and appears on the


