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Aypi’s ghost began her revenge campaign against the village men in earnest, spurred on by regret. At night, she emerged dripping from the sea before flying to the men as they slept, then stifling their breaths. The first to be punished was Toti-Naz’s husband. Aypi followed him, appearing as a cackling devil, blowing sand on him, carrying him on the wind, and tossing him onto a trash heap. What little esteem he had in the eyes of his wife was lost, and in the end he could barely be considered a man. For the time being, he put aside roaming, and instead sat looking out his window into the darkness. The only thing the petrified fellow drank was green tea, and his recovery from alcoholism kept his wife at home.
“Do you have to scare a man to fix him?” complained Aypi.
This dubious succes
