15052 - After the night

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Vicky Baklessi

After the night the white fighters came. They had wounds but they all were smiling at him. They were all waiting for something but he didn’t know what they wanted exactly. Then the first dialogue began. They had to teach him the moves. So they got on the chessboard each one in turn. The very little giant learned every detail and focused on each of their words so that he doesn’t forget anything. When suddenly, each one took his position and he discovered the army of the wooden dwarfs. They all stood still on the first two rows. They remain like this for a long time so that he analyzes the facts, the relationships, the structure. Then he placed a mirror horizontally on the chessboard, so that he sees how his own looked like from the opposite side. He bent over without kneeling and understood when he reached their height that they were intimidating and immense.