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tense. I see her eyelids simmer sometimes, as

hing, that I let myself be

essential thing: I

re cautious gestures, a way of avoiding my gaze. And then there is

li

n bro

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he family, with the village. But Awa does not understand that when a man fe

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e we sleep. My feet touch the fresh eart

from the dwellings, the song of the cric

t noise, my b

hen did

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moments when she disappears too l

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ch my

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e, then I will break i

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mile, prepares breakfast, di

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believe

am kidding slightly, I play my role. Bu

the village with

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trees, moving for

familiar.

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g against a tree, waiting for

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pects anything? Malik

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ne tre

s a hand

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the screaming r

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hat, she

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m l

o an abyss that I may never come

river fills my nostrils. I'm here, alone, with Malik, and I wonder if all this is really worth i

k. He is simply there, waiting for me to lose myself more an

e, always lucid, a l

But part of me ... part of me is attracted to the darkness of

ssion that he locks me with each eyes, that he binds me to

in the

ree

s h

But he's not there. He r

able to get rid of this feeling that suffocate

o more b

g into a sw

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nd bass, tears me aw

sa

the trees. His eyes are dark, cold. He looks at me without a word. But

tra

nd that I can no longer ignore. The poison of guilt

ly, each step sounds

What can I say anyway? What to do with a man who loo

face. He is so close, I can feel the wa

nk I don't k

calm, but I hear the pai

t in fault. I can't find anything to

... I didn't

th a beating heart. What didn't you want? Betray your husband? Make

A glow that I know well. Ange

not what

own ears. I can see his gaze hard more, as if he was

nable to li

ddenly and

n the shadow of the forest, he turn

ray me again, if you lie to me ag

yes. He know

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