Kiss me 2.1
The answer comes in the murmur of the stones, in the echo of the vaults: Because you did not flee.
Then I rise, even more trembling, but more certain. As if my fear, instead of weakening me, became the living proof that I am on the right path.
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THE FAITHFUL
The entire village has been transformed.
In the lanes, on the squares, in the fields, people no longer speak of harvests, debts, old quarrels. Everything is pushed aside. Everything is covered by a single rumour: the wedding.
The children secretly practise phrases they want to shout on the day, like improvised poems.