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Trip to the barn

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Klara wants to talk to the sun where „he“ goes to rest; as far as she can tell from Josie’s room, that is in a barn across the fields. The first time Klara goes alone into unchartered territory, and she gets into difficulties in the high grass and the uneven ground. Her visual field is divided into boxes (stress symptom?), she is about to lose her way, or rather, „fall into the ground“, when Rick (who has observed her from home) appears and offers help. – Arriving at the barn, Klara realizes that the barn is not the sun’s resting place, she sees „him“ setting on the horizon. But the rays fill the barn with light, and she decides this is still a good place to ask for help. She starts to formulate words in her mind. The scene of course is that of a worshipper praying in a church, the sun being god. Klara may be slightly disappointed that the sun does not really live in the barn, she even realizes that the sun maybe can’t deal with problems of an individual easily, given that he oversees a vast territory and many beings (including AFs), but she still invests her hope and belief in the sun: Could he heal Josie or at least help her to get stronger? She offers a sacrifice as well: to destroy a machine (she had seen from the shop) polluting the air and blocking the sun. With that offer, the surroundings in the barn change, becoming more gentle and friendly: the Sun seems to accept the deal. – Dreamlike quality of this pilgrimage, including Klara hallucinating (or, more in the religious vein, having visions of)  fragments of her earlier shop-home, and her AF companion Rosa with a hurt leg, all in the sun-lit barn with hay pieces floating in the air.

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