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Date: 20 February 2007 17:18:18
The girl ran back to the house. She ran into the chamber where her mother slept, alone now, and held out her hands. Her mother stirred, and took her hands. She led her, unseeing, back to the clearing in the wood.
The devil stood once again in the clearing, holding the knife from the kitchen.
The girl danced once again and as she danced, she saw the devil take a rib bone from her mother, and then take her mother's hair. He stretched the hair between the ends of the rib bone.
The fire died; the clearing was cold, and silent.