08/03/2026 18:16

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It's impossible. ’             'Try me,' I said. And this someone, this human, knew that I was here as well. ut they weren't important to me, those strangers who had gone North and only came home now and then for funerals.

'But she was down too deep and her injuries were too great. ' It had to be Mount Vesuvius, this mountain, and the city had to be the fabled city of Pompeii.             Yes, I said. No, I did not have a flashlight or lantern.