Sawsan went on reading the book to herself, and her mother went to the kitchen and came back with some bread and some apricot jam.
Then we heard the sound of gunfire. The woman blew out the lantern flame, and I dashed outside, where I saw five opposition fighters chasing a pilot. They seemed to have shot down his helicopter and found their way to where he had landed by parachute. The pilot had only a pistol; the others had Kalashnikovs and were chasing him in a pickup. I went back inside. The pilot ran into a house, and the fighters surrounded it and called on him to surrender.
He had no choice: he had run out of ammunition. He came out with his hands on his head. The men surrounded him and kicked him till he fell to the ground. Then they told him to get up. One of the men stabbed him with a knife, and then the others joined in the stabbing.
The pilot collapsed into a pool of his own blood. They stepped down from the truck and sprayed the dogs with a hail of bullets. When the last dog was dead, silence reigned. The men drove their pickup out of the village. Inside the house the mother was on her knees, holding the pistol with both hands.
The woman stayed where she was until the break of dawn. I spent some of the time looking at the dead dogs. One dog was still breathing feebly. I imagined its soul escaping and joining me in my wait. She had the pistol in her hand and walked forward aimlessly. She went into a cotton field and kept walking, in a daze. I wanted to follow her and find out if she was going to shoot herself, but she went beyond the confines of the village and toward the rising sun. Many things happened in the village after that.
The regime forces stormed the village, then the opposition forces regained control after fierce battles. International humanitarian organizations came looking for evidence, collecting data on crimes committed by both sides, like referees counting goals scored.
I had been fighting with the Sons of God mujahideen. I was a sniper. For a year and a half I had picked off regime soldiers. In the end they dropped a bomb on my hiding place from a plane. They dragged out my mangled body and kicked it and pissed on it. I was delighted to have died in battle. I would meet the Lord with a clear conscience. As soon as I was free of my body, some former colleagues arrived with the authority to arrange the crossing-over process.
They brought me to this village. It had been a long time. And I was still waiting. I wandered around the deserted village. The cotton fields had died, too. I used to feel bored, but then boredom showed me what powers I really had. I began to move around with the birds on the branches and on the roofs of the houses.
I tumbled with the leaves when they fell from the trees. I played with the wind, crawled with the worms, and gave the insects a hard time. Abandoned mineshafts can also generate on the surface in badlands biomes , which generate Gold Ore far more often and at higher altitudes than other biomes. There are minecarts with chests throughout the abandoned mineshafts that contain resources, such as gold and iron ingots , rails , golden apples, or seeds.
Rails can also be found during the excavation in the shaft. On occasion, abandoned mineshafts can connect to strongholds or dungeons. Exploring a mineshaft can be quite dangerous but otherwise beneficial. Be sure to bring the following:. AssultTank posted More topics from this board Why are my villagers disappearing? General 5 Answers Why does minecraft keep restarting my computer? Tech Support 5 Answers What folder do I put a downloaded map in to use it? Tech Support 3 Answers Stopping enemies spawning in my house?
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