Part 1: The Death, the Retrieval - Chapter 2

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Nikos, on returning from the fishing boats all tired and rugged, found his wife once more on the verge of serious illness, sobbing on the balcony; a very calm, moonless night, we have to say, when the pine trees scented the air and the crickets chirped candidly. 

Nikos was worried that his wife's seclusion would finally lead to her own death, as after all, she refused to eat, go to the village and talk to her friends, even leave the balcony. Indeed, it had been a month now since her daughter's death. Panagiota refused to share the same bed with her husband and had transferred a small ragged mat out on the balcony. "We need to get her back! Only then will I return back to the house!" she protested.

"You must be crazy," yelled her husband to which she replied again, shouting even louder, nearly at the top of her voice this time:

"WE NEED TO GET HER BACK TO OUR BED!"

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