"I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the living room was open just a crack.... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months. There was no anger or reproach.
It was Papa who spoke.
"How did it look?"
Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were starts," he said. "They burned my eyes."
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