:02:51
In a low voice he begged me--
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But what was he saying?
:02:55
I could only make out
pieces of his story.
:02:59
He claimed he heard
a frightening scream...
:03:02
that shattered
the silence of the night.
:03:04
He told of a family reunion...
:03:07
and of how he went searching
in the direction of the scream.
:03:11
Then the tone of his voice...
:03:14
grew almost inaudible...
:03:17
as he told the tale
of a desecrated tomb...
:03:22
and a shroud-wrapped corpse,
bearing the head of death itself.
:03:26
Yet it was still breathing...
:03:28
as if quickened by the heartbeat
of a living being.
:03:32
Its garments were in shreds...
:03:35
and I observed that the body
was smeared with blood.