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Date: 22 February 2007 16:13:34
As the girl watched, the devil took up the thing he had made with her father's bones, and brothers' tendons. He held the rib bone and her mother's hair, and drew the hair across the stretched tendons of the girl's brothers.
Suddenly the clearing was filled with music. The fire leapt back into life, and the girl danced for the last time, to the music that the devil made. The music was full of longing, sadness and joy, and tugged at the girl's soul more than anything she had ever heard.
The music ended. The devil handed the things he had made to the girl, stepped back into the fire, and disappeared.
The clearing was cold and silent once more, but the girl knew what she had to do.
A new day was dawning as the girl crept back along the path to the empty house.