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प्रश्न
How did the children react when the sun came out after seven years?
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उत्तर
It was the color of flaming bronze and it was very large. And the sky around it was blazing in blue tile color. The jungle burned with sunlight and the children released from the spell, ran out, yelling into the springtime.
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