The accursed silence, capable of driving you crazy, tears apart my chest, displaces everything in places that in its opinion is not laid out right, pulls me out from the inside and chases me home, dispersing herds of ants along a burning spine. I’ll finish my smoke and go. I firmly decided, and the foresight of a quick end to my stupid wandering gave me strength. Slowly I calm down, very slowly. I’ll take to my heels right away like a scared rabbit, and I’ll run along the road without looking back.
The flashing began.
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The flashing happened suddenly. The valley glimmered like a mirror aimed at the sun, but in a moment it grew dark again, only there in the depths where an illuminated dome still glowed, which really reminds you of a Cossack hut by its shape.
Here a mysterious murmuring
