A Tale for Tomorrow

sustenance with their first common meal; this was accomplished in silence. It is thus once named that they sat in one circle, each one at the foot of one‟s bed facing the flame.

It was like a beginning.

Calmly each ate one‟s fil l; the soup was good and nutritious.

Once they had put everything away, Gomat pulled out of his bag a small tambourine, Tohar a harmonica and L‟Etoile a bamboo flute and, while they tuned them up, Svanil began humming, Dia joining her: the harmony of their first evening.

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