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Ginastera: Bomarzo chorus

The Nameless caused much trouble to the universe, bumping stars into one another, chewing at comets, and disturbing growing planets and many people we'll never know, who must have wondered what it was that bothered them so, and why.

Receiver hid in a great cluster of stars, so bright that the wolf's eyes hurt, but the wolf shook his hair over his eyes, and found him, though the Nameless was burnt by the stars since they were so close together, and so became even more angry at Receiver.

Then Receiver hid in a great dark cloud that even hid the stars, but the wolf pushed stars into one another, so they exploded and blew the dark cloud away, and he found him.

Then he hid in a black star, a star so great and heavy that it made a hole in space and fell into it, and Receiver hid there. But the wolf dropped his big tail, which he made electric, into the hole and swished it around the new universe that was growing there, and to the people there the wolf's tail was the Northern Lights that we know, that sometimes sweep ghostly through the night sky. His tail found him and pulled him out, but Receiver got away again.

Then Receiver came back to earth, which is unusually full of magic, and made wings again, great black wings, and flew fast over the earth, but the wolf followed him. The wolf, who didn't like daylight, and liked moonlight even less, stayed in the night and even the time of the night when there's no moon, since the moonlight had such magic it made the wolf just sit and howl until the dawn. And Nameless nearly caught him again, but Receiver ran and flew with his wings into the daylight side of the earth, where he'd be safe until night.

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