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embraces her tightly as if he was defending her from death at that moment.

Chapter 23
     
     
     
    In the afternoon, Murad returns to the cavern carrying a dead animal over his back. He throws the dead animal on the ground and walks on, glancing at everything there, however, he sees Zidane is standing, his head is bent and his hands are against the cavern wall.
    The old man senses the boy’s agony through his posture.
    “Where is the blind girl?” he asks surprised at not seeing her there.
    “She returned to her village.”
    His voice sounds unhappy.  At the same time he answers looking at the ground,
    “And you are sad because she abandoned you.”
    Murad supposes as he holds a water mug.
    Zidane moves away from the wall and walks in the direction of the old man, saying in agony, “I am sad because they’ll burn her tonight.”
    Murad opens his eyes wide and asks him, “Why will they do that to that poor blind woman?”
    “Because she is a witch .”
    Zidane pulls Murad by his mantle and implores him as he looks lost.
    “Help me do something.”
    “What can we do to save that young woman?” Murad questions quite frightened.
    “I just need you to let me be free this night.”
    “You are crazy ! It’s a full moon night.”
    “That's just it! I know what I have to do.”
    “Zidane, it’s a big risk − you can die or kill all those people and that includes that blind woman.”
    Zidane withdraws from Murad and says apprehensively,
    “I need to take that risk for Amarilis.”
    He puts his hands over his head and roughs up his own dark hair.
    “That’s not correct what they’ll do to her this night.”
    Murad stares at Zidane and  warns.“Think better of it, that woman runs a risk of being killed by the beast that exists within you.”
     

Chapter 24
     
     
    11:00 pm
     
     
    Lyra hugs her niece for the last time and Amarilis feels the tears of her aunt going down her shoulder.
    “Don’t cry aunt ! My death won’t change anything.”
    She abandons her aunt’s arms and Norton holds her and confesses with bitterness,
    “If only we could do something to prevent your death.”
    “You can’t do anything.” She thinks of Zidane at this moment. “No one can do anything.”
    Her male cousin embraces her and kisses her on her hair.
    Then someone gives three knocks on the front door.
    “They’ve arrived ,” Lyra informs them.
    Amarilis lets go of her male cousin’s arms and says to them, “I don’t want you to watch my death.”
    She turns her head from side to side
    “Please, you don’t go outside of this house  tonight.”
    Lyra and Norton stare at each other and they look startled at Amarilis’s advice; however, they look at the front door as  three loud knocks sound through it and a male voice says, “We came to take the witch!”
     
    Norton and Lyra walk Amarilis to the front door and ten men are there facing them, waiting for the young woman.
    When Amarilis steps outside the house, some men bind her arms with a cord and they walk onward, and the girl fells she is being guided by the cord.
    People in the village come out of their houses at the moment that the witch is being taken to a trunk that is situated in the center of a dry grass mount.
    Amarilis is tied up to that trunk with a cord around her body.
    She looks up at the sky, already hoping for her death.
    However, the ten men that are around the young woman are waiting for the right moment to place the fire on the grass.  They all lit  their torches on a bonfire earlier on.
     
    11:59 pm
     
    The full moon appears in the sky.
     
    00:00 pm
     
    Men stare in shock when they see an enormous shadow behind them. People in the village run inside their houses when they see a gigantic creature, that is, a black wolf.
    “THE BLACK WOLF!” One of them screams out.
    “Let’s kill it!” Another man says.
    They throw the torches’ flames at the wolf and the dark animal roars at them.  The wolf attacks them and tears violently the arm