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something is breathing in the soil Gafar
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i'm sure of it Mahmud said jumping back
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from where he was digging with his
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shovel gafar narrowed his eyes and
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looked into the hole it was only half a
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meter deep but the ominous smell coming
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from it was unheard of even in a
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cemetery "treasures don't come out that
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easily brother," Gafar said "but this
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this is something else."
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Two hours had passed since they started
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digging the darkness of night had fallen
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like a ghost over this abandoned farm at
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the foot of the Taurus mountains the
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wind had stopped the trees were still
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only that sound that thin wheezing voice
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coming from deep in the
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earth the map showed this exact spot
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mammoot said under the big pine three
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steps to the right of the old waterway
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just like your grandfather told us gafar
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knelt slowly and touched the earth
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sometimes a curse is buried with the
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treasure Mahmoot he said remember that
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mahmoot laughed no way we are interested
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in gold not Anatolian legends and look
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something seems to glow over there gafar
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saw that reflection too it was like a
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metal in the mud a shapeless but old
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coin or a piece of amulet just as they
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were about to reach out another growl
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came from the pit this time it was more
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distinct more human could someone could
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someone be down there whispered Mammoot
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no Gafar said but sometimes what you
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pull out was there before you waiting
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they looked at each other for a
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moment silence fell between them like a
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unknown gafar loosened the soil around
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the edges with his ax then together they
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continued digging in the muddy ground 20
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minutes later they hit a stone the stone
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was uneven but seemed to have been
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fashion this is a hatch Gafar said this
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mammud's hand trembled di never told me
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anything like this what if he didn't
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what if this place was not meant to be
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forgotten when they moved the stone lid
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an intense smell of dampness and
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decrepitude rose there was a hollow
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underneath like a narrow tunnel gafar
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leaned forward "get a flashlight," he
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said mahmood took the flashlight out of
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his bag and shone it into the hole there
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was a wall of stones and an ancient
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symbol in the center of the wall an eye
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a snake and a key this what is this said
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Mammoot it could be a warning said Gafar
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invitation mammud shown the flashlight a
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little lower at the bottom of the wall
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were the words "What is hidden in the
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blood." At that moment the air grew cold
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the light of the lantern flickered and
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the voice from beneath the earth echoed
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like a clear word this time gaffar
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the darkness intensified as soon as the
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sounds of the shovel stopped
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gafar shuddered at the sound of metal
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scraping against the stone floor the
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coolness from beneath the hatch to the
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cellar stabbed his skin like a knife in
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night this This is something else
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Mahmoot said staring into the
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darkness gafar shone his flashlight into
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the gap the musty smell filled his
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nostrils mixing with the rotten wood no
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stairs were visible but a stone path
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leading down was clear he touched
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Mahammut's arm before stepping onto the
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slippery steps "get out of here if you
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want," he said "this might not end."
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"Well," Mahmoot shook his head from side
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to side "i've dug every hole with you
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all these years and this time I'll see
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it through." The two descended into the
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cellar with heavy steps the stone walls
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seemed to glisten with moisture along
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the narrow corridor ancient symbols were
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faintly visible among the moss gafar
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traced an engraving with his fingers his
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eye caught a flickering light ahead
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"look there is that a lantern?" Mahmud
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said "But when they got closer they saw
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that the light had no source an icon
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seemingly embedded in the wall was
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blinking by itself emitting a pale blue
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light someone was here before us," Kafar
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said in a whisper mahmud shuddered what
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here at the end of the corridor was a
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heavy black iron door it had fine
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engravings on it and a hollow in the
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center that resembled the eye of a snake
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gafar took the excavation map out of his
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eyelock was written in this exact spot
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on the map his hand involuntarily went
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to his pocket he took out the medallion
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from the inside pocket of his shirt it
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had the same symbol in the center "if
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you are ready this is a place of no
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return," he said mahmoot bowed his head
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in silence the door swung open with a
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sound like a sigh as the locket replaced
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the key there was no money inside no
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gold only a past that even time tends to
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forget and now the first whispers
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began the first thing they noticed when
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they entered was silence not a bird
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singing not a drop of water just their
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own breath echoing like a muffled
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swallow this was not just a room it was
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a space that seemed to have absorbed
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time oversized mirrors lined the walls
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some broken some cracked but all shiny
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as if they had just been wiped clean
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mahm approached one and looked at it
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carefully why are these here what are
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mirrors doing in such a deep cellar he
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asked gafar quietly approached one of
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the mirrors he saw himself but something
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was strange the lines on his face were
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more pronounced his eyes were sunken in
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for a moment he thought the reflection
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gafar this mirror moved," Mahmud said
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"did you see it too?" One of the mirrors
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suddenly cracked a thin line snaked
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upward and then with a crack the surface
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split in two another room appeared
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behind the mirror dim foggy and filled
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with a familiar smell gafar stepped
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forward in the center of the dark room
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was an old table and on the table was an
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object he recognized from years ago his
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"how how can this be?" he said barely
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suppressing his voice mammoot turned
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around one by one the mirrors had begun
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to crack behind each one another scene
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appeared his childhood bedroom his
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mother's tombstone the hill where they
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this is not just the past it's a
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passageway full of our consciences Gafar
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said at that moment one of the mirrors
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reflected the figure of a child inside
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he looked like a small version of Gafar
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the boy beckoned him with his finger
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through the mirror then a dark scream
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shattered all the mirrors gafar grabbed
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Mahmood's arm "we have to get out of
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here now," he said "but getting out
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would no longer be so easy."
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A deep silence greeted them as they
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emerged from the mirror-filled part of
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the cellar there was only the sound of
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moisture seeping through the stone walls
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the earth beneath their feet grew softer
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with each step as if it was not the
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ground they were trampling but memories
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gafar took the excavation map out of his
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pocket the map had come from a source he
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had received years ago a source few
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people knew about but now a red line
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appeared on the map that had not been
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there before a thick bloodcoled trace it
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had appeared after passing through the
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mirrors this line didn't exist until
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here Mahmoot said studying the map
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carefully someone is playing with us
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Gafar said but the game is real this
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line wants to lead us somewhere the
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trail led to the north wall of the
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cellar at first glance that wall was
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flat but on closer inspection one stone
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stuck out farther than the key others
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when Gafar pushed the stone it dislodged
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and fell to the ground then a small gap
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appeared a curved staircase led down
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void it's like the heart of the earth
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Mammud said gafar shook his head the
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here something is pulling us somewhere
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test when they went downstairs they came
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upon a semic-ircular room in the center
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was a three-legged coffee table with an
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old leather notebook on it gafar
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approached it carefully and saw his name
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on the cover gafar Aligose this is
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impossible he said i didn't leave
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anything like this when he opened the
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notebook the following sentence was
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written in his own handwriting on the
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first page time stops when the
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excavation begins everything changes in
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the blink of an eye only regret remains
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pald i never wrote this sentence but
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this is my writing mammoot bent down
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when something in the corner of the room
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caught his attention on the stone floor
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was an old knife rusty but sharp
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engraved on the handle were three
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letters g A M what could this mean he
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asked gafar's eyes widened gafar aligos
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Mahmud just then the room shook a voice
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echoed through the walls at first it was
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a whisper then it exploded like a scream
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the price of treasure is your own past
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the floor began to tremble the stones
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were falling gafar grabbed the notebook
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pulled Mahmoot by the arm and they ran
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up the stairs but when they thought they
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were running they turned and realized
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that they had reached the beginning of
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the mirrored room mahmood asked
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breathlessly "did this place put us in a
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loop?" Gafar narrowed his eyes "no it
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brought us back to ourselves." Returning
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to the point where the mirrored room had
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begun had frustrated them both gafar
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held the notebook tightly in his hand as
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he flipped through the pages he saw a
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fragment of his own past in each line a
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forgotten letter a love he had abandoned
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years ago a lie he had hidden as a child
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this notebook is my life," he said in a
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whisper mahmoot was looking in one of
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the mirrors reflections were no longer
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visible in the broken glass faces
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appeared in the darkness people they
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didn't recognize some frightened some
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angry "who are they?" Mahmud said
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startled gafar approached "they could be
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the ones who got lost looking for this
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treasure." Just then a stone pillar rose
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in the center of the room on top of it
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was a goldplated chest on the side of
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the chest was written "He who seeks will
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find himself he who sees will lose
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gafar approached softly "don't open it,"
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Mahmud said but Gafar put his hands on
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the lid of the chest it was cold like
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touching the skin of a dead body slowly
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he lifted it inside there was no gold no
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jewelry no maps there was only one thing
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his own face a mask carved in stone gray
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and expressionless a note underneath the
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treasure is you whatever you are looking
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for it is not there mahmood bowed his
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head so all these years we dug for
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nothing gafar's voice was slow but firm
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no Mahmood what we were looking for was
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not about money this was the grave of
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our conscience and now we will either be
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buried or we will dig up what is buried
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suddenly just before the walls collapsed
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one of the mirrors shown in a tunnel
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appeared gafar closed the chest tucked
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the notebook under his arm and turned to
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Mahmood "this is our last chance," he
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said they ran through the mirror the
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tunnel narrowed the stones spilled over
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them finally they reached the outside
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above the first hole they had dug it was
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morning the birds were singing gafar
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leaned on the pickaxe handle whatever
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the earth has kept for us one day it
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will want it all back Mahmoot mahmoot
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nodded silently but there was something
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Gafar didn't realize on the last page of
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the notebook another handwriting had
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been added in the morning gafar dug
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gafar found it but Gafar is still
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looking when they returned to the
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excavation site Gafar realized that
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nothing was the same anymore even the
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earth was silent the sun did not fall
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into the pits shadows swallowed
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everything mahmoot sat on a stone and
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put his head in his hands "do you still
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have his notebook?" he asked gafar
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nodded his head "yes but that notebook
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is no longer written." Mahmoot swallowed
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"maybe there is nothing left to write."
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Just then a child's voice came from deep
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in the forest like a whisper
14:50
gafar they were both startled the voice
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came again this time it was closer gafar
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you have taken my place a boy emerged
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from the trees he was covered in dirt
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his face was familiar very familiar he
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was almost an exact copy of Gafar when
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he was young his eyes were the same but
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there was an emptiness inside gafar took
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a step you who are you the boy smiled i
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am you but you left me in the ground
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mahmood jumped to his feet gafar what
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the hell is this the boy stretched out
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his hands remember the day you buried me
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at the edge of that quarry coming back
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from digging pushing someone gafar's
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face froze he slowly put down the
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notebook on his back only this sentence
15:46
came out of his lips i I thought it was
15:50
an accident the boy shook his head from
15:52
side to side maybe it was an accident
15:56
but my grave was conscious gafar sank to
15:59
the ground one by one the memories came
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back an argument during an excavation
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years ago a missing child a secret that
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was not recorded in the police records a
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secret that was covered up and a
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conscience suppressed by the earth the
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pages of the notebook began to turn in
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the wind the last page opened by itself
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a new line was written gafar found your
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burial but the hole he dug was his own
16:29
grave at that moment the edge of the e
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pit collapsed gafar lost his balance
16:36
mahmood reached out shouting but he was
16:38
too late gafar stared at the boy as he
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fell into the darkness there was no fear
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in his last gaze no regret only
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acceptance the boy was standing there
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then he looked up at the sky and
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disappeared mahmoot wanted to go down
16:55
with a pickaxe and shovel but the hole
16:58
seemed to close itself the earth was
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getting heavier the stones were rolling
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away only the notebook remained there
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open with a single sentence on the last
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page every treasure is dug at a price
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the most precious is forgiveness the
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earth hides everything but most of all
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