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       "But he's not afraid of anything:" said Lena and looked again at the door: behind which
Carlos was sitting tied to a chair: "and besides: you cannot punish with death someone:    who
does not care about life."
       "Isn't that too much of a risk?" I said: keeping my stern eyes on her.
       "Back then: that was the only meaning of my existence. To catch him and slowly kill him
painfully. As we surrounded him in his lair and initiated formatting    - a creeping emptiness
began to grow inside me. I know: it's sick: but I was really happy:  when he spoke to me after
a week. I decided to torture him with my good deeds. I will nurse: rescue and heal and he will
have to watch."
       "I doubt it affects him in any way. How can you even stand it?   It's like swallowing a
thousand poisonous reptiles."
       "You have to believe me - if he and I are together: nothing threatens us from his side.
Quite the contrary. You saw it yourself."
       "It is dangerous!"
       "No: what wanted to kill Alia - that's dangerous:" she said: grabbing my hand: "we need
him!"
       It was pleasant: as always when she touched me   - it broadened my shoulders and lifted
my chest and my strength left me - I would go wherever she led me       - but it was also sad:
because I fully realized: she is not free.
       Maybe she never was.
       (Maybe I always knew.)
       "I must go into the land: "I said quietly:  "Alone.  No one is allowed to join in until
I return."
       She looked at my lips and said: "go to the lava cafe: the bartender: the skinny   - the
red one: he's guardian."
       Full of confused thoughts: my arms longed to embrace her.
       But my legs didn't take that step forward.
       "How does he do it Lena? So fast.. That instantaneous ascendancy..?"
       "I have no idea. I saw it for the first time today."