″I mean, wait like a seed that must slumber in the earth before it can sprout.
That's how long the words will take to grow up inside you. Is that what you want?″
″Yes,″ she whispered. ″Then sleep,″ said Professor Hora, gently passing his hand across her eyes. ″Sleep!″
And Momo heaved a deep, contented sigh and fell asleep.
PART THREE - THE HOUR-LILIES: A YEAR AND A DAY
Momo awoke and opened her eyes. It was a while before she gathered where she was.
To her bewilderment, she found herself back on the grass-grown steps of the amphitheater.
If she'd been with Professor Hora in Nowhere House only moments before, how had she made her way back here so quickly?
It was cold and dark, with the first light of dawn just showing above the eastern skyline.
Momo shivered and burrowed deeper into her baggy jacket.
She had a vivid recollection of all that had happened: of trudging through the city behind the tortoise,
of the district with the strange glow and the dazzling white houses,
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