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You came out today?

Today.

[Indicating the crimson sea of clouds.] How long were you in there?

Thirteen years.

Officer, you went to earth with him?

Yes, sir.

Stephan Kadar, after thirteen years of purification by fire you returned to earth to give proof that your soul had been burned clean. What good deed did you perform?

When I came to the village and looked in the window of our cottage I saw my poor little orphans sleeping peacefully. But it was raining and the rain beat into the room through a hole in the roof.