1 But there was an unbroken night ahead.
2 It happened on that night when we wrote last.
3 We brought it forth from the night of the ages.
4 Each night, for three hours, we are under the earth, alone.
5 And they are glad when the candles are blown for the night.
6 Now we sit in the tunnel for three hours each night and we study.
7 We looked too long at the stars at night, and at the trees and the earth.
8 One night, we were cutting open the body of a dead frog when we saw its leg jerking.
9 We learned that the earth is flat and that the sun revolves around it, which causes the day and the night.
10 And as we look upon the Uncharted Forest far in the night, we think of the secrets of the Unmentionable Times.
11 Yet as we stand at night in the great hall, removing our garments for sleep, we look upon our brothers and we wonder.
12 There was nothing left around us, nothing save night and a thin thread of flame in it, as a crack in the wall of a prison.
13 Each night, we run to the ravine, and we remove the stones which we have piled upon the iron grill to hide it from the men.
14 And as we all undress at night, in the dim light of the candles, our brothers are silent, for they dare not speak the thoughts of their minds.
15 We forgot, that night, to watch the sand in the glass which tells us when three hours have passed and it is time to return to the City Theatre.
16 We wished it so much that our hands trembled under the blankets in the night, and we bit our arm to stop that other pain which we could not endure.
17 This is the time each spring when all the men older than twenty and all the women older than eighteen are sent for one night to the City Palace of Mating.
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