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Hennie didn't stand. He just pointed to the dirt at the boy's feet. "You’ve forgotten how to walk on this earth, Pieter. You’re stepping too light. The wind will blow you away."

Elias sat on an upturned crate outside the general dealer, his fingers dancing over a piece of scrap wood. He was whittling a bird—a swallow that would never fly. Beside him, Hennie, a man whose skin was a map of seventy years of South African sun, watched the horizon. athol fugard

"I’m here to help you, Oupa. To move you to the city. There’s nothing left here but the heat." Hennie didn't stand

"It doesn't come off easily," Elias remarked, handing him the wooden swallow. "I know," Pieter whispered. You’re stepping too light

On the final night, sitting around a small fire of thornwood, the silence became a character. It sat between them, heavy and demanding.