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of one man.
    Amarilis feels the wolf’s presence and she shouts, “Take care!”
    A man notices Amarilis is trying to alert the wolf against danger and that same man sets fire to the dry grass and exclaims,  “DIE! CURSED WITCH!”
    The black wolf leaps up to the man that put fire on the grass and he maims him with his enormous teeth.
    In the meantime there are still eight men around and some of them take up their flames and move them against the wolf’s body.
    The wolf jumps from side to side, but even so he is reached by the fire arrows several times.
    His bellows torment and frighten the people in their houses and those that are also out of them.
    “The wolf!” Lyra shouts as she is embraced by her son in her house.
    The violent animal gives several leaps in the direction of the men and throws them to the ground. A good many of them are bleeding, others are lacking their inferior limbs or posterior limbs, or lacking their heads.
    That is, there is a massacre in the village.
    Then the wolf sees that everybody has fallen on the ground and there is no life before his yellow eyes except for the life of a young woman that is tied up to a trunk.
    The wolf approaches the trunk slowly where the girl is.  The fire is raging next to her growing more and more.
    Amarilis feels that the wolf is before her at the same time as he roars at her.
    “It’s you!” The witch exclaims as she looks up at the sky and her white eyes roll from side to side.
    The gigantic black wolf sees the young woman tied up to the trunk through his yellow eyes. Then he gazes at the full moon and roars loudly at it and makes a long leap in the direction of the sightless witch.

Chapter 25
     
     
     
    Early in the morning, Zidane is asleep in the middle of the forest. He is lying down with his belly on the ground which is very full of dry leaves.
    He is badly wounded; there are burns over his whole body and also stab wounds on his face.
    The young boy awakens and looks at the forest round him. The trees look bigger than they normally look and it seems Zidane is looking for something or someone, even though he is feeling a little giddy and powerless.
     
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    Murad sees the boy is quite wounded as he passes over the cavern door.  For this reason he looks quite serious.
    “Thank God very much! You’re alive!” The old man exclaims relieved.
     
    “Where is the blind girl? Didn’t you get to save her?”
    His expression gives margin to martyrdom.
    Zidane doesn’t answer him, and at this moment someone walks slowly into the cavern, a woman with her long black hair, in a long black dress, comes after Zidane’s steps.
    “You got to save her!”
    Murad shouts as he looks at the witch that is moving her hands on the cavern walls. Then he runs in the direction of Zidane and hugs him, shaking the boy’s body.
    “You got to save her!” the old man exclaims and breaks into a fit of laughter.
    “Calm down!” Zidane tells him, “I’m badly wounded.”
    “Now you have someone to take care of your wounds.”
    The gray haired man jokes as he looks at the blind witch.
     

Chapter 26
     
     
    Even though Amarilis is blind, she perfectly takes care of the wounds on Zidane’s body.
    While he lies down on his bed, completely nude, she makes use of a cloth that is wet with some herbs to cicatrize the terrible burns on the young boy’s body.
    He holds her hand and makes her stop washing his wounds. She stops what she is doing.
    Zidane gazes at her, sits down at her side and he says to her as he is squeezing up the delicate fingers of the young woman, “ The black wolf’s curse served some good in my life.”
    He touches her face lightly and continues saying to her, “IT SAVED YOUR LIFE.”

Chapter 27
     
    Some weeks later...
    Zidane intensely embraces Amarilis’s body while they are standing at the top of a mountain. She is with her back to him and both of them are gazing at the orange skyline.
    A wind comes in their direction and Amarilis’s long