“We were not afraid or concerned.”
“We walked up to their fire and stared at it.”
“We had never seen such a thing before. I don’t remember any fire before that one,” he continued in the same monotone, shaking his head slowly.
“The men stared at us until one of them, seated opposite where we stood, stepped forward and spoke to us.”
“He was a tall man. A giant in our eyes.”
“I found out much later that he was not so big. Not so awe-inspiring.”
“But I was a child.”
“I didn’t recall having ever seen another person other than the one my size, beside me, holding my hand.”
“We gazed up at him, our necks bent all the way back.”
“He squatted down, and his eyes were black.”
“Dax giggled,” he said with a half-smile, his eyes clouding over as he relived the memory while sharing it.
“And tou
