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The winter passed, then spring came. If you saw the blooming flowers on the dunes, they would lift your spirits. Spring’s beauty faded in this area as quickly as a flower petal. The season came and carpeted the desert with red, but before your eyes could take it in, it was gone. See? At high noon, the sun is already sending people to look for their shadows. As far as Araz was concerned though, it had at least gotten rid of the winter fogs.
No one spoke more than necessary with him, nor did he say much to them. Though they shared a village, they were on different continents, between which a crack in the earth had opened, and which continued to widen so that crossing from one side to the other was no longer a simple thing, and if you risked the first step, there was no guarantee of safet
