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the reddish fire.
    “From a great distance.”
    “Do you mean you didn’t like what you saw?”
    “I need to go to that village again.”
    “You cannot run the risk of going back even for a person.”
    “I need to talk to her.” Zidane says looking into the old man’s eyes.
    “You are risking your life too much and it’s all for a skirt tail.
    “I’ll go back to that place − even if that is the last thing I’ll do in my life.”
    Murad observes the boy’s countenance and he stays silent as soon as he realises that his good advice won’t change the mind of the bewitched boy.

Chapter 18
     
     
    09:20pm
     
    The village is having a feast to celebrate the birth of a child in the village.
    Women are dancing and a greater number of men are toasting and drinking with their wine mugs.
    Zidane approaches the village, hidden in his black cape and his hood over his face, impeding people from recognizing him.
    He walks directly among some people and later on he sees Norton together with some men and women.  On other side he sees Mrs. Lyra is helping the women serve up.
    However, his search continues incessantly because who he wishes to see is not there among those people.
     
    09: 54 pm
     
    Amarilis comes out of her home and she walks through the village avenue in the direction of the feast in the open air. A small gasp comes out of her mouth when she feels somebody holding her arm and pulling her with brutality in the direction of the back of a house.
    She feels herself being pressed against a hard wall, coerced by the brute strength of the individual that holds her lips, for she doesn’t shout again to attract people there.
    The young witch feels that the stranger’s hand is removed from her mouth and she has the liberty to say something.
    “It’s you!” Her hands touch the boy’s face that is hidden in a black hood.
    He also holds her face with his hands and smiles happily at her.
    “I felt you were alive,” she continues saying while her white eyes move from side to side.
    “I needed to see you.” His face comes close to hers. “You needed to know I am alive.”
    “But you cannot stay here! They think you are dead.”
    “I know.” He gazes at her with tenderness.
    “You cannot come back here, they’ll kill you!”
    “I’ll not come back here again.  I just needed to see you once more.”
    His fingers trace the contour of the blind woman’s face.
    “You cannot come to me, but I can come to you.”
    Amarilis says and Zidane is stunned at the girl’s insinuation, because she also wishes to meet with him another time.  However, he shakes his head when his common sense takes over his mind again.
    “No, that’s dangerous for you.”
    “But I want to run that risk.”
    “No, Amarilis, you cannot go after me alone.”
    “Is it only because I am blind?” she compresses her lips, sulky. “I know the forest very well.”
    “It’s not only the forest that offers risks to you.” His eyes run through her beautiful pair of breasts and go up in the direction of her neck and stop at her luscious mouth.
    “Soon I’ll be an indomitable beast.”
    “You’re not able to do me any harm, I can feel that.”
    And both of them shut up when they listen to Lyra’s voice shouting. “Amarilis!”
    “I have to go,” she says desperately.
    Zidane passes his forefinger over his own mouth and after that he passes his forefinger lightly over Amarilis’s lips saying farewell to her through his affectionate gesture.
    She remains still and he leans his nose against hers and says in a low voice,
    “I’ll be in the forest tomorrow afternoon.”  Then he separates himself from the young woman and says again, “Meet me there.”
    Another shout echoes on the other side of the house. “Amarilis!”
    The lass smiles and goes running behind the house as she keeps her body on the house wall trying to go in a hurry to her aunt.
     
     

Chapter 19
     
     
    03:00 pm
     
     
    Zidane puts his hand over the trunk of a