When Jack found her, she was just lying hunched wearily in a chair in front of the stove in the castle kitchen. Food boilers were boiling, countless trays were baking in ovens. When he saw the intruder on the doorstep, immense joy flooded the girl's face. Finally, her savior came. She snatched the cutter from the table and threw it with a precise motion, right in Jack's forehead. Every time an earthling climbed the beanstalk, the time of love came. The pané brain of a mortal was like viagra for an ogre.
(Translated by Carla-Marina Ştefănescu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
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