A 4-part Spanish story series
The Riddle and the Answer
La adivinanza y la respuesta
- Part 1: Coffee, No Milk, Extra Hot
B2 Spanish · 6 min read · Free
A princess who can only speak in riddles walks into a café run by a man cursed to know every answer. Their first conversation goes suspiciously, magically well — and the old raven at the window seems to be enjoying it far too much.
- Part 2: Fire in the Clock Tower
B2 Spanish · 4 min read
Nacho's answers have started coming true—which would be marvelous news if he hadn't just said «fire in the clock tower» out loud. The witch who cursed them both is finally ready to talk, and what she has to say is worse than the fire.
- Part 3: The Bottom of the Well
B2 Spanish · 7 min read
A princess is rationing her voice one chalk-written word at a time, while the barista who knows every answer in the world fills forty pages with failed questions. It's the palace guard, of all people, who spots the loophole everyone missed.
- Part 4: What He Gave Without Knowing
B2 Spanish · 6 min read
For twenty-two years, Nacho has known the answer to every question ever asked in his presence. Now the only girl he cares about is mute, the cure is a riddle about him, and for the first time in his life his mind is perfectly, terrifyingly blank.