The Little Prince 15

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That night I didn't see  ①【 ****  】. He got away without making a sound. When I  ②【  ****  】to catch up with him, he was walking fast with determination.

"Ah, you are here. You were wrong to come. You'll suffer. I'll look as if I dead; and that'll not be true..."

I said nothing. 

"You understand... It's too far. I can't take this body with me, it's too heavy."I said nothing. "But it will be like an old abandoned shell. There is nothing sad about an old shell..."

I said nothing.

 "I'll be looking at the stars too, all the stars will be well with a rusty pully, all the stars will pour out water for me to drink..."

I said nothing. And he too said nothing, because he was weeping. 

"Here the place, let me go on along. You know my flower? I am responsible for her. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world."

He hesitated a little longer, then he stopped up. He took a step, I couldn't move. There was nothing but a yellow flash close to his ankle. He didn't cry out. He fell gently as a tree falls. There was not even a sound, because of the sand.