The price of friendship

It was a clear night, the sky was completely devoid of clouds, and in the middle of it was a full, round moon, like a disk of shining silver. It illuminated the small city with its gentle light, and cast a long shadow over an old, abandoned villa, when a number of boys approached it cautiously, and looked at it in fear, turning around. Around one of them, he seemed the most composed of them, and h...