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no one would have believed that an ordinary molasses cube could change human destiny but that year such things
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happened in that quiet village of Isizmir that neither the vineyards became the same as before nor the
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molasses placed on the tables of that old couple could retain its old taste
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at the entrance of the village in the shade of fig trees dancing with the wind there was a stone house this is a
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vineyard that stretches out in front of the house it used to be filled with grapes that turned purple in autumn
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every year the elderly couple who lived in that house were Osman and Zelha they
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never had children everyone used to call them Aunt Zeliha and Osman Dei they were
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friendly hardworking and dignified people but what is told about Zeliha
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they were different the villagers used to say that Zelha was quarried so he has
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an innate inexplicable power with prayers herbs eggs water sometimes they
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claim to heal people and animals just by looking but he wouldn't explain any of
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this he would just do it and then he wouldn't interfere with the rest they had just completed the bond breakdown of
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that year osman had carried the grape baskets to the threshing place early in
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the morning and Zela had taken out the grape juice and boiled it in large
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cauldrons the molasses which had been bubbling under the sun for hours had
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finally reached a dark consistency they filled it into large tins to sell
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it and placed a small earthnware cube they had reserved for themselves in the pantry corner of the house and that's
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where the story started zeliha used to put a scoop of molasses on the table every day especially in the morning at
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breakfast Osman would not have enjoyed the molasses he poured on the baslama bread but as the days weeks months
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passed they realized something that little cube of earth it was never
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decreasing osman he said one morning as he was setting the table have you ever
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thought why this molasses doesn't stop the man looked up what are you saying
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woman what do you mean it doesn't end look it's been 2 months since I opened the molasses i put it in a bucket every
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day but the cube is still full osman frowning got up from the table he headed
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for the pantry he opened the lid of the cube that stood in the dark corner he couldn't believe his eyes the molasses
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was as full as on the first day there was no foam on the surface nor any signs of subsidance "that's not possible," he
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said leaning into the cube "either my eye is deceiving me or you are filling
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it in secretly at night." Zeliha shrugged her shoulders that's what I
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thought at first but no i dip the bucket every morning but the level remains the
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same it's like it's being renewed osman sat at the cube for a long
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time after that day he put the molasses on the table himself in the morning he
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took one scoop at a time each time the cube remained the same it's like a
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miracle weeks passed like this osman even started thinking about this cube in his sleep at night
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sometimes he saw the cube talking in his dreams and sometimes the molasses flowing from the cube spreads on the
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floor of the house giving life to the stones while walking that fine line
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between insanity and miracle one night he asked Zelihadeca tell the truth do you have a
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hand in this the woman was silent at first then he answered by averting his
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eyes i bought this cube from my mother and that's from his own mother it passes
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from generation to generation but this is the first time I've used what's in it for so long so he was still maintaining
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his strength osman's heart started beating fast what does this mean woman
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zeliha took a deep breath this is the cube the relic of a blessed being but he
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was not to be asked the question it just had to be used i broke the rule Osman i
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told you and now this cube will never fill up again after that moment nothing
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has ever been the same the cube began to empty the next morning at the first scoop its surface
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decreased on the second day it was hald within a week the cube was completely
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dry there are no drops left no traces it was as if all the magic in him had
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melted away in that confession poured from Zeliha's lips but the real secret
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he had not yet appeared after the earthn cube was emptied the interior of the house fell
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into silence neither Osman's saying "Health to your hand Zelha," was heard during
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breakfast in the morning nor Zelha's arrival at the table with a molasses scoop every time she stopped by that
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shabby corner in the pantry zeliha's eyes stayed stuck in the same spot the
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cube was now like an ordinary pottery there was no sparkle left no
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mystery osman sat in front of the window one morning with an empty coffee cup in
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his hand it was raining thinly outside the vines in the vineyard had turned
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yellow and spilled over the ground autumn was beginning to show its harsh face now is it possible to bring this
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cube back he asked his voice was mournful zelia spoke without raising her
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head you can't bring back the cubes not the decisions Osman this should have
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remained hidden from us i told you we talked about him and so the spell was
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broken osman sighed but why well just
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because we talked no said Zelha with her eyes far away
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this is not just a promise it's a matter of intention when you share a secret two
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people carry its burden but some secrets have to be carried alone i have shared this burden with you the cube did not
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accept this osman nodded silently he was becoming increasingly withdrawn drowning
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in his wife's silence but Zela's past had already begun to speak to her
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present at night his grandmother enters his dreams in a dark room with incense
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in her hands whispering old prayers to him one night Zeliah jumped out of her
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sleep he was in a sweat osman is at the bedside what happened when he asked the
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woman muttered with her eyes squinted he has come again grandma's here again you
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have to wake up the land he said osman didn't know what to say what does that
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mean when he said that Zeliha took a deep breath follow me the moonlight was
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faint but sufficient they both walked towards the little hill behind the house
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this was the place where the ruins of the house where Zelha's grandmother used to live were found only the stone walls
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of the house remained in the middle of it stood a black piece of stone it's
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like a tombstone zeliah took a small glass bottle out of her pocket there was a dark liquid in it
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a last drop from the cube this is the last straw left from the cube he said "Grandma told me to
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keep this drop because she knew what would happen one day if the secret of the cube is broken it should be poured
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into the ground." Osman was watching in amazement that liquid are you going to
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put it in the ground zeliha shook her head no secret that does not return to
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the earth will find peace and then he knelt down he opened the lid of the
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glass bottle he poured the drop on the ground just in front of the black stone
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at that moment the earth seemed to absorb the eye liquid he sucked so fast
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that Osman couldn't believe his eyes for a moment then there was silence even the
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wind has stopped the birds were silent just at that moment a deep humming was
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heard coming from under the stone the earth trembled slight but definite
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zeliha shuddered it started he said what started it osman shouted but Zelha had
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already started walking there is no going back now the next day strange
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things began to happen in the village first three sick cows in the village got
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up overnight no treatment no medication they only woke up healthy in the morning
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then the oldest woman of the village Hafi Nana who had not spoken for 3 months began to pray loudly at a morning
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prayer everyone was confused then the waterway from the mountain changed direction on its own
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the small dry stream bed passing under Zelha's house started to receive water
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again the villagers could not make sense of these events but the uneasiness in Zelha's silence was beginning to gnaw at
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Osman's insides one night towards morning Zelha came down to the kitchen
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osman also followed him the woman was mumbling something in the old language in whispers she was wrapping some herbs
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in an old cloth in front of her "zeliah what are you doing?" Osman asked the
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woman paused for a moment then he tied the mouth of the cloth and put it in a small sack "i now have to protect not
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only ourselves but also the balance of the land," he said osman gulped "it's
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not a matter of that cube anymore is it?" Zeliha shook her head "no this is
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the beginning of something much bigger than the cube now." The village was this quiet for the first time in years the
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day had dawned but the birds were not singing the old oak tree in front of the coffee
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shop in the village square looked as if it didn't want to wake up in the morning its leaves were dull its branches
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motionless this morning the village people were greeting each other with strange looks everyone feels something
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but no one could name it zaliha went out on the hill behind the house once again after the morning
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call to prayer he had an old notebook in his hand the hard cover was worn out its pages
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were yellowed his grandmother would never let him touch this notebook while he was alive he always said "When the
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time comes." The time had come now his eyes darkened as he turned the
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pages every line every drawing every sign was awakening the dormant waiting
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power within him some symbols seemed to move before his eyes this was no
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ordinary information it was a call a call that rises from the earth from your
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ancestors from an ancient place january wasn't just healing he
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said to himself sometimes it is necessary to destroy to maintain balance on
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[Music] this was gracing his sheep returned to the village in the afternoon with a
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bloody knife in his hand his eyes were empty he wasn't talking there were no
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sheep the headman received the news immediately what's the matter Haleem was
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the wolf attacked said haleem shook his head from right to
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left then only three words fell from his lips they didn't have eyes no one
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understood haleem was found hanging from a tree on the slope the next morning there was no rope no footprints only a
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symbol had been drawn on the ground in the mud symbol it was on one of the
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pages in Zela's notebook zeliah took the notebook in her hand and looked at it again the meaning of that symbol don't
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wake the sleeper a shudder covered him this was no longer just a village issue
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what was awakened was not only his power but an ancient being
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that evening Osman sat down in front of Zeliah and asked the a question he had
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been saving up for a long time this is yours is there no limit to what is
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called January zeliha well when is this going to stop where will it
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lead zeliha slowly raised her eyes to him when I was little when my mother
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left me and left my grandmother said to me "You will not just be a woman you will carry a root the tip of this root
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rests on the soil the bottom rests on darkness." I didn't understand at the
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time i understand now i agreed to what I said yes to a long time
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ago so you are are you saying there's no turning back from this said Osman
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anxiously zela nodded slightly what there is no return for is not mine there
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is no return to what we woke up that night an old man came to Zeliha's house
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walking sticks in his hands a patched jacket on his back his feet were bare no
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one remembered that he was from the village his eyes were white but he was walking as if he could see when Osman
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opened the door the man said one word is this the house with the stove zeli came
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out from inside and made eye contact with the man a shudder passed through him those eyes were the eyes he had seen
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in his dreams "yes," Zelha said "this is the quarry." The man sat on the floor in
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silence "i I came from the guard servant a crack has formed in the passage you
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should seal it." Zeliah's heart was squeezed osman did not understand either the
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passage or the crack but Zelha understood everything the last page in the notebook was blank but now something
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had to be written on that blank page because the passage was a place where
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people could not see with their eyes and once a being had been sealed there
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centuries ago by another woman who is a descendant of Zelha and now that seal
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was being unfassened the next morning Zeliha left
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Osman at home and went to the cave next to the old stone mill next to him was a notebook three separate herbs and an
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earthn seal stone left over from his grandmother the entrance to the cave was
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covered with moss the humid air coming from inside reminded him of years ago a
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ritual he did here with his grandmother then his grandmother said "One day you
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will enter here alone it will only be dark inside if you accept the darkness
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the light will come with you if you don't you can't go back." Zeliha came in his heart was
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beating faster with every step there was an old well in the middle of the cave he
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drew a circle with herbs around the well he opened the notebook and closing his
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eyes he began to recite a prayer aloud at that moment the inside of the cave
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trembled small pieces of stone spilled from the ceiling a hum rose from within
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the well and then a sound zeliha the
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woman opened her eyes the voice that came from the well belonged to his grandmother but her grandmother had been
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dead for years zeliha the gate is opening every day that's late they get a
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little closer zela threw the seal stone in her hands into the well the sound of
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the stone falling echoed for a long time then there was silence a deep silence
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but as he left the cave a new symbol appeared on the wall behind him it was
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as if that moment had been etched into the stone the symbol was the same one that appeared on the blank last page of
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the notebook when Zeliha returned from the cave that morning Osman was waiting for her at the
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door his eyes had been sleepless since morning his beard had grown out and his
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hands were covered in dirt he had not eaten anything that night nor had he
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slept a wink the moment Zelha entered her voice became
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bifurcated what is happening to us Zelha what are we going to call these things
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zeliah quietly took off her scarf which she had covered over an expression had
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settled on his face acceptance but also fear we have come to the place of no
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return Osman he said but I have sealed the gate just the surface there is
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something else in the depth he's on the move osman took his decapitated head
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between his two hands i I wasn't ready for this much i used to till the ground
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i'd fill up on molasses even the molasses that you scoop out of that cube every morning I no longer watch with joy
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but with fear zela turned her eyes to him don't be afraid Osman that molasses
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is still ours but the source may have woken up now a second strange thing happened in
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the village that day mosque Imam Mephendi disappeared after morning
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prayers his shoes were at the entrance of the mosque but he did not have them not in your house not in the coffee not
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on the mountain one of the elderly women who saw her last said her face was very pale
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it was as if he had seen someone but he wasn't telling he said the headman
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gathered the elders of the village now everyone was admitting that the situation was not normal osman was there
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too at the end of the conversations someone said "This is a job that Miss
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Zelha will know isn't she a cooker?" When he said "The atmosphere became
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quiet." Osman stood up bowed his head forward
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zeliha is a good person he hasn't hurt anyone so far he healed the sick he
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treated animals but it's true he's not an ordinary person now we need to
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discuss some things with him zela was sitting at the bottom of the fig tree at the back of the house at that time
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notebook in hand eyes on the horizon he shuffled the pages again the blank page
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was filled in in the morning it said this on it he who calls the fire awakens
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the ashes as well just at that moment smoke rose from the distance to the hill where the old mill
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of the village was located osman ran in that direction with the crowd the mill
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it was burning but there was no wind there was no heat there was a fire but
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there was no flame just a black smoke silently engulfing the mill the headman
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shouted in surprise "Bring water run run!"
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But no water was of any use no shovel the mill burned down turned to ashes
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only the foundation remains in the middle of the foundation there was a circle etched into the ground and in the
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middle of the apartment MTendi skull cap when Zelha got there everyone was silent
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the woman knelt down next to the ashes he brushed the ashes with his hand a
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stone appeared under it there was a familiar motif on that stone the oldest of the symbols in the
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notebook the eye of fire zeliha's voice trembled this This seal has been broken
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before the headman approached what are you saying Mrs zeliha the woman raised
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her eyes to him a descendant of mine trapped fire in this village centuries ago he sealed it to the foundation of
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the mill but now that seal has been broken and a soul he was released a
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woman from the villagers shouted "Is this all because of you?" Zeliha bowed
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her head in front of him "my intention was to heal but every improvement may
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have bled an old wound." Osman did not speak at home that night he didn't go to
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bed he asked Zaleha a single question molasses why doesn't the cube fill up
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anymore zeliah paused she is molasses it was renewed only when balance was
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achieved i used to take a scoop out of it every morning but the day I told you the truth it didn't belong to me anymore
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when the secret is revealed the mystery loses its power osman remained silent for a long
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time then he said "So that molasses it's not just food it was a kind of scale."
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Zeliah shook her head exactly so that cube was the symbol of balance it's
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empty now because the cover of the scale is broken later that night Osman woke up
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a voice had come into the garden he opened the door but there was no one there the moonlight illuminated the
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entire garden but at that moment he looked at the cube out of the corner of his eye cube it was full there was
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molasses in it again but its color had changed from dark purple almost to black
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and a note was left next to it it was written on greaseroof paper only three
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words on it the regeneration has begun when Osman showed the note to
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Zelah the woman's face went white this post grandma's post at the same time a
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baby was born in the village the mother had a normal birth but the baby he spoke
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as soon as he was born she didn't cry i have come he said just one word
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i'm here they sat at the cube until morning zeliha and Osman they never
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spoke the dark almost pitch blackened molasses inside was just standing there
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but the area around the cube was moistened the soil was cracked as if small roots had reached up to the toes
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zalha spoke against the morning this it's not healing anymore this is
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something else cube not to me it belongs to the one before that now osman had
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squinted who are you talking about the woman's voice was shaky name to the
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Bible sister many years ago when Zeliah was just a child her grandmother Bible
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sister used to keep this cube in the room at the bottom of the house no one could touch him bring him closer little
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Zela once sneaked into the room at night the cube was not in place there was only
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a circle above the ground the next morning the cube was there again but
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after that night all the animals that Zeliha had come into contact with with
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her hands had started to recover my grandmother didn't think the cube was
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just an item zeliha said he used to address her by name verdda he used to
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say this was an asset osman an entity that distributes healing but wants its
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reward he seems to give of himself every time but in the end he took more osman
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straightened up angrily "then you too and you've repaid him for everyone you've healed so far." Zeliha shook her
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head with tears "i didn't know when I said heal I healed but with each scoop
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with each healing the cube filled with a little more darkness and now it's full
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to overflowing." The talking baby born in the morning in the village still could
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not be silenced the women were bewildered the baby was repeating the
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same sentence every hour every hour Verda is back mktar had already stopped
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looking for the imam at the place of the mill black colored vines came out this
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time three villagers goats were found dead from night to morning their pupils
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turned white in front of Zeliha's house every night the cube was refilling
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itself but it's not healing inside anymore maybe it was poison one afternoon Zeli decided to go
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to the cave again osman tried to prevent it but the woman had made up her mind i
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have to go there i didn't leave the notebook that Grandma burned there the real notebook it was
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under the stone in the cave i just bought a copy when the villagers saw Zeliah set
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off they chased after her there were also those who feared among them and those who prayed
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decently but they all stopped in front of the cave no one dared to enter only
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Osman entered the cave after Zeliha they found the notebook under the
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stone the volume was old the writings had faded but it was still being read on
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the last page it said "The cube is not infinite it takes as much as it heals
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verda wakes up when she's full if it is not saturated the cube will crack but if
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a landlord reveals the secret the curse will not be his but the
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villages while Zelha was reading the notebook a buzzing was heard from inside
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the cave the walls cracked black dust began to pour from the ceilings osman
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pulled Zeliah by the arm we have to get out this place is collapsing they came
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running out behind them the cave was buried in piles of stones as the dust
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smoke dispersed a shadow appeared at the door of the cave "he's not human but it
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looked like something." Zela turned back slowly looking at the shadow "it's you
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isn't it?" he whispered "vera you're not just in the cube anymore." The shadow
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did not approach but standing still in his place he whispered something not
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earrings i was born into the heart that night Zela saw her grandmother in a
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dream the Bible sister was sitting under the fig tree at the back of the house in
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the same state of youth my daughter the woman said you started with a good heart but you opened
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the secret early healing is not everyone's expense now you must bear the
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curse zela knelt down crying i want to save the village Grandma closing the
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cube back is it possible sister Bible shook her head yes but in one way you
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should use the molasses one last time by giving the greatest pain in your heart
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when morning came Zelia took the cube again he turned to
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Osman be ready today will be the end osman could not understand what was
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going to happen but the determination in his eyes told me that the end was near zeliha carried the cube to the
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village square everyone was gathered he opened the lid of the cube the dark
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black molasses was stirring inside as if it were alive "today I will heal you for the last
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time," he said "but I will give my life in return." Osman shouted "No Zeliha
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don't do this." Zeliha smiled only I can do that and with the ladle he poured the
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black molasses into his own heart zeliha collapsed on the floor but
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just at that moment the cube cracked a black smoke rose from it he turned off
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the sun but after a few seconds the smoke began to dissipate the sun has
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appeared again and the cube it became salt and ice with the white light
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gushing out of it zelha was lying on the floor his eyes were closed but there was
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a piece on his face osman ran to him he took the woman's hand zela whispered for
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the last time verda he's had enough the
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cube has not been found again since that day the oddities in the village are over
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the baby was crying like a normal baby now the goats have started to give milk
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again and where the mill was only green herbs appeared there are no vines left
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no symbols but every spring a fig sapling was growing by the side of the road leading to Zeliha's grave and there
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was a small cracked stone under the sapling one word was written on it verda
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osman seemed to have isolated himself from time in the years following Zeliah's death the bond distortions no
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longer had any meaning for him the molasses boilers were left empty and no one touched the grape bunches on the
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vine in front of the house until they turned yellow and dried up with Zeliah's
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absence the sounds in the house had also disappeared whereas even the walls seemed to speak to her while she was
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alive now only the wind was moaning in the gutters in the corner of the roof
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softly whispering memories from old times one autumn day while Osman was
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cleaning the small warehouse behind the house he found one of Zelia's old notebooks its pages were yellowed the
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edges were surrounded by burn marks the handwriting was still alive in the notes
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that Zela had obviously written recently the cube was mentioned but this time he
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was saying it is not a blessing for him it is a burden between the sentences it
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was obvious that Zela had fallen into a fear
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deceassis is not running low because it has a price every sweet spoon leaves a trace of a shadow on the walls of this
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house osman found it difficult to make sense of what was written but soon the
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news spread that a strange man was wandering around the village he was dressed in black his face was pale and
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his eyes had the look of someone who had scanned old notebooks no one knew where he came from
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only it was said that he often appeared on the old vineyard road above the village one morning while Osman was
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sitting on the doorstep watching the sun this strange man visited the house he saluted quietly examining the house with
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his eyes it was like he smelled something then without a word he headed
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for the backyard osman did not follow him now he felt that things had to find
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their own way the stranger was bent down at the foot of the old fig tree at the back of
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the house he dug up the soil and from under the ground he pulled out this
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little cube of earth the color of which has darkened over time the cube was
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still intact despite the cracks on it there was a smell of molasses coming out of
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it but that smell was no longer sweet it carried something bitter and dark the
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man did not take the cube and enter the house he walked with her into the interior of
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the vineyards to the abandoned cottage behind the old stone path he stayed
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there for days every night the lights were on old books were burned prayers
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screams and strange sounds that sometimes resembled laughter rose from inside the villagers were first curious
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then afraid osman on the other hand just waited
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one morning the bai smoke coming out of the hut stopped the man did not appear
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again that day the hut was empty there was only a cube inside but this time the
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cube was not filled to the brim there were only a few drops of dark black molasses left in it osman reopened the
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notebook that night zeliha's last sentence was scrolled at the bottom of the page as the cube filled up we
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decreased the earth raised him he must return to the earth the next day Osman took the cube and
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walked to the old cemetery on the mountain side with the first light of the morning he waited for a while by
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Zeliha's grave then he carefully placed the cube under the ground he wrapped his
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hands around the ore he buried the cube softly he felt himself lightening with
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every stroke of the ore after throwing a last shovel of soil he knelt down and
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closed his eyes as the sun rose a thin mist rose from the top of the soil there
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is no smell left no taste just silence but this time the silence was covered
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