![]() ![]() How can I go on without them? But how can I not go on? They would want me to survive. His brothers and sisters, whom he had laughed with and played with and looked after. His mother, always ready with food and milk and a soft hand to stroke Salva’s head. ![]() His father, who had sent Salva to school. “He felt as though he were standing on the edge of a giant hole – a hole filled with the black despair of nothingness. There I was, close enough to touch one, with a bad leg as well - and here I still am today.” 'I have come to believe that foxes could not possibly be as clever as we think them. "Crane-man picked up the last morsel of rice with his chopsticks and popped it into his mouth. "'Enough!' Tree-Ear's eyes were wide with horror. It stopped there, right in the middle of the path, grinning with all its teeth shining white, licking its lips, its eyes glowing, its broad tail swishing back and forth slowly, back and forth-' "'So it was dusk, and I was still a good distance away. "Even to say the word made a trickle of fear run down Tree-Ear's spine. It was said that a fox could lure a man to his doom, tricking him into coming to its den, where somehow he would be fed to its offspring. some people even believed that foxes possessed evil magic. They were not large or fierce, like the bears and tigers that roamed the mountains, but they were known to be fiendishly clever. ![]()
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