He scattered his fingers and felt the thin strands. He stood up slowly so he would not wake the others up and went down, in the back of the cave. He smashed the stone off the tough wall. He put the strands next to each other and suddenly they lit up in the first few sparks. The light in his palm went up his arm to the top of his head, lightning his face for a second, and then it went down to his feet. The ash slipped through his fingers but his smile stayed. Here are the skeletons of the first humanoids, the guide explained, and here in the back of the cave,seems to be the prints of a caged animal.
(Translated by Anca Cristina Georgiana Mihai / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
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