A Tale for Tomorrow

Second episode

Blanche and Le Rai are coming up the path dancing and holding hands; a little further down one sees Zeidr‟s silhouette, a little bent forward by the basket loaded with mushrooms and roots she has fastened onto her back, followed by Sémion‟s balancing on each shoulder a strong reed from which hang tow woven sacks – that is four sacks of vegetables and berries – and it is obvious by the thrust of his chest that each expense of his body reinforces and harmonizes it more. In fact almost everyone else stands on the porch already and those are the last ones to return to the hearth, which is already decorated with streamers of sewn or woven leaves and many small clay lamps. For this is the day, or rather the evening, when they have chosen to try together and put into practice a particular movement they each have now discovered, identified and learnt – a movement supposedly internal, or inward which, although very simple, can only become possible once a minute and thorough cleansing has been effectuated in their consciousnesses. Four of them step forward to take charge of the sacks and basket and take them into the kitchen where four others are already busy at the cooking stoves and others are laying and setting the plates and cutlery: the delicious supper will be ready to be served when they all “return”.

At last the bell rings.

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