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Wordcount: 1,051

Synopsis: Late one night, the breakthrough finally comes.

For the next few days, the house was very quiet.

  They rarely saw the mute during that time. Occasionally, Falke would glance out the window and see him for a moment in the back garden. But the moment he looked away, he would vanish like a ghost. One night, vary late, he found him in the kitchen, staring into the glowing flames of the stove, perfectly still and unresponsive to anyt...