...of Seth

Seth felt himself wrapped in a silence so dense it oppressed his chest. The little girl at his side was staring at Abel, her mouth twisted in a grimace of fear. Seth could not bear to look at him for long and sought in vain for something else to look at to break the spell. He stared at his own shadow, and then at a couple of deer grazing calmly in their pen, remote from the silence which had invaded the world. But his eyes returned all by themselves to Abel's body.

[The White Book, Scanziani, P.]

- submitted by Pearce, M A.