Opio

>>There was a prophecy of twin angels. It spoke of a harbinger of death, the imminent disaster incarnate […] - along with a holy healer who can perform miracles with her hands and deliver us from evil. […] Tell me, are you yourself aware of your calling?<<

(closeups under cut)

ᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ◡ ᖘꍏ꓄ꃅꂦ꒒ꂦꁅꀤꉓ ꎇꍟꌗ꓄ ◡ ᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠDay 30: Backstage. ᅠᅠᅠLights off. Actors get a deserved rest.

A moment of respite

ᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ◡ ᖘꍏ꓄ꃅꂦ꒒ꂦꁅꀤꉓ ꎇꍟꌗ꓄ ◡ ᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠDay 26: The fourth path. ᅠᅠᅠIf you arrive at the right time and look down the rails leading into the Steppe, you'll see the famous so-called Apple Basket Gang reassembling here on the fourth track. The bonfire will be restored; its smoke rising into the clear, dark sky, and fragments of their conversations will slowly dissolve in the silence of the approaching dawn...

Day 25 -Tender Hands

ᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ◡ ᖘꍏ꓄ꃅꂦ꒒ꂦꁅꀤꉓ ꎇꍟꌗ꓄ ◡ ᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠDay 23: Deity. ᅠᅠᅠ«Close your eyes, yargachin. Do you hear that? This is the song of Boddho, our Great Mother; she cries and humbles, she murmurs with her thousand voices and words, «come, my children, come here and rest». She is our Goddess that created us out of clay, bones and dirt… And as long as she needs us, we stand with our feet on her skin-earth. And when the time comes… she'll swallow our bodies up again…»