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Rh "Only the fire-born understand blue," said Fire the Goat to Flim the Goose. And that night as the night before they slept on a sand flat. And again Fire the Goat took off his horns and laid them under his head while he slept and Flim the Goose took off his wings and laid them under his head while he slept.

And twice in the night. Fire the Goat whispered in his sleep, whispered to the stars, "Only the fire-born understand blue."

Rh