Bitten, toshiyuki ihira [most difficult books to read .txt] 📗

ball as long as I have to. He stops crying. He is bearing his pain.
I stay like this for a long time. I don't know how long. Sense of time has vanished. He hasn't wriggled free of my hold. (“Is it too painful for him to move?”) … (“What he or I feel don't matter, … and I don't care. His bleeding has to stop.”)
The sun is starting to go down. Our houses are at the base of a small mountain. We come into shadows an hour early in the evening. It's still bright out away from the base of the mountain. Everyone is getting ready for dinner.
(“I have to take him back to his house. … I have to tell them what I did to him.”)
I wrap my right hand over his bleeding paw and pick him up with my left hand clutching him against my chest. He is limp. Strength went out of him. I walk as fast as I can. I don't want to shake him, not his bleeding paw. Right around the corner of the entrance to the front walk I see grandpa. He is smoking his pipe, standing outside the front door. Men don't bother with meal preparations. They just eat. He sees me and his face makes a chuckle and then frown. Stone pebbles under my feet makes a loud noise and that's all I hear.
“Help me!” I dole out a wretched face. “I cut his claw and it's bleeding bad.”

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Publication Date: 10-30-2009

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