The Dark Valley (2013)
“The cliffs of Orangia heat in the spring sun and lizards with yellow belly skins lie on warm rocks flicking out their tongues.
In the days when Manas’s home was inhabited, there were no rosehip bushes in the dale of Orangia and shy lizards did not fleet about on the walls. Instead of wild roses, there were cucumbers in the vegetable garden.
Only one narrow path joined the dale of Orangia with the village. That path no longer exists today.
“Manas, why did you build your house in Orangia? Didn’t ...you know that Davoys’ Arakel also had his eye on the dale where snow melts faster and the grass under it grows quicker?” Davoys’ Arakel, wearing his ox leather moccasins, looked out of the corner of his eye one morning at the dale of Orangia, where two calves that had straggled from the herd were grazing, and decided to build a palace for himself there.
However, two weeks later, it was Manas who was pouring cement in Orangia with his trousers rolled up, standing in mud up to his knees while a carpenter stacked cut stones.MoreLess
In the days when Manas’s home was inhabited, there were no rosehip bushes in the dale of Orangia and shy lizards did not fleet about on the walls. Instead of wild roses, there were cucumbers in the vegetable garden.
Only one narrow path joined the dale of Orangia with the village. That path no longer exists today.
“Manas, why did you build your house in Orangia? Didn’t ...you know that Davoys’ Arakel also had his eye on the dale where snow melts faster and the grass under it grows quicker?” Davoys’ Arakel, wearing his ox leather moccasins, looked out of the corner of his eye one morning at the dale of Orangia, where two calves that had straggled from the herd were grazing, and decided to build a palace for himself there.
However, two weeks later, it was Manas who was pouring cement in Orangia with his trousers rolled up, standing in mud up to his knees while a carpenter stacked cut stones.MoreLess
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