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You people never watch your words and emotions. As
for people’s words, they are so powerful that they can save,
or kill ,or even bear a monster. Especially when it comes to
a Mother’s word. Oh, it’s powerful indeed. I’d recommend
every mother to utter only kind words to avoid trouble.
In a forest clearing a group of sun splinters were
playing. Nice creatures, they play with the rays of the
the sun, spreading joy to whoever sees them. Sun splin-
ters live in houses made of warm transparent shade
where, being invisible, they can rest or work their se-
cret splinter things out. But when they go out to play in
the sun, they shine, absorbing solar energy. It was the
clearing the Boa headed to – he read the sun splinters
at a distance. On his way the Boa sucked up more and
more snowflakes, with that growing larger and larger.
And when he finally landed on a bough over the clear-
ing with the sun splinters playing, he was gigantic. Boas,
you know, have magic chilling stares, so the Boa stared
at the darting gleaming merry creatures. The splinter
Yul was the first to spot the Boa. He cried and stood still;
Kay, Aula and the rest followed him. The Boa stretched,
made himself comfortable and told the sun splinters to
come closer. The splinters flew close to the snow mon-
ster’s muzzle; the mouth opened and all the jolly family
of sun splinters disappeared inside. The Boa was lying
on the bough, big, white and stuffed, sucking out the
poor splinters’ jolly solar energy. Fortunately, the sun
turned out to be powerful enough that day and didn’t
leave its little friends helpless. The sun got to the bough
where the Boa was sitting and sent its ray to the prison-

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