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The Vigil He Did Not Mean to Keep

He fasted, kept the four watches, offered bilva and bathed the stone in his own tears, without knowing any of it was happening.

He was up the tree because of the tiger, and everything else that happened that night happened by accident.

The hunter had gone out in the morning with nothing and had killed nothing, which meant his family would not eat. He had stayed out too long looking, and the light had gone, and he was a long way into the forest.

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