Crystal train was picking up the speed without slowing down on timbered forks and flanks of cities coming into view were widely stretched up across the field. The nature breathed through mouth half the time to show its similarity to man. He thought that tragedy too often went ahead of any portents and authority came from the language like a thistle sprouts and lives straight from the Central Russian night; that fever’d touched the forehead once before and left his knees in cold. He understood the sweat arising on the surface of the ground, but homeland was unknown and obscured.