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see him in some way. Then he comes back to face his friend and says to him,
    “I am going home! I’ll see you tomorrow.”
    “Good night, friend.”
    “Good night.”
    The youth in dark clothes walks away and his friend enters his home again.
     

Chapter 5
     
     
    Fire festival
     
    Every year a great event called a fire festival occurs in the village.  The town people use this feast to celebrate the winter’s arrival.
    The village’s dwellers celebrate this day with lively music, folk dance, food and drink.
    Several bonfires are also lit on all sides of the village.
    The full moon adorns the sky for the revelers.
    Zidane is seated on a stone beside his friend Norton and both are holding a red wine mug. They observe the people around them drinking, talking and dancing around the bonfire.
    “Don’t you want to dance with the people?”  Norton asks his friend.
    “No, I don’t. I prefer to stay far, looking at people having fun for me.”
    “Well, then in that case I’ll have to abandon you for some time. I’ll dance near the village girls.”  
    Norton rises from the stone and walks from front to back, “I think you should do the same.”
    “If I itch to dance − keep calm, I’ll look for you.” Zidane mocks in a good temper.
    “All right, just don’t spend the entire night trying to decide.”
    The boy turns his back and walks away.
    Zidane stays far from people for some time. He thinks of his family, whom he doesn’t know. And he also thinks of his new life in the village. The new friends and companions he has already made there.
    He gazes at the full moon in the sky again and he feels something familiar rising inside him. After some time, he glances at a bonfire on the other side of the village. The area around this bonfire is empty because there is only one person standing before it, a young woman standing with her back to him, with her long black dress and dark hair.
     
    “FIRE! FIRE! DANGER!”
     
    Zidane hears these words that come out of the mouth of the dark haired young woman, while he approaches her carefully. After all he already knows a little about the girl’s temperament.
    “DANGER!”
    She says and glances back, but she doesn’t see the friend of her male cousin before her holding only a wine mug, but she senses his presence before her.
    “You!” she exclaims turning her white eyes from side to side.
    “How do you know it’s me?” he says staring at her face.
    “I can smell your scent,” she answers thunderstruck and her hands reach out but touching nothingness.
    The boy approaches more and the young woman tries to run away, but he catches her arm and he impedes her from going away.
    “I don’t want to do any harm to you,” he confesses gazing at the girl’s scared countenance.
    Nevertheless, she remains immobile for a time and she whispers in a low voice,
    “FIRE! WOLF!”
     
    Zidane wrinkles up his brows and compresses his lips trying to understand what she wants to say with those loose words.
    “Fire? − Wolf?” He insists, “What do you want to tell me with this?”
    Amarilis shakes her head from side to side and doesn’t answer him, but Zidane senses she wants to say something important with that.
    At last, she gets to take her arm out of the boy’s hand and she runs away frightened of him. She disappears into the midst of people that are dancing around another bonfire.
     

Chapter 6
     
    The majority of the village men are returning from their jobs in the forest. The majority of them are going straight to the tavern with the intention of alleviating their stress from an arduous days work with a good dose of red wine.
    As always, Norton sits down at a table with his friend Zidane.
    “What happened to you?” Norton asks his friend as he perceives he is with his head down all the time.
    “I am suspicious of something.”
    “Tell me what!”
    “Your female cousin says words that I can’t get out of my mind.”
    “What did Amarilis say to you this