Cheers erupt at the wall.

The wall that had separated the two worlds for decades had just been broken through.

Representatives from this side and the other side walk through the opening, greet each other with smiles and firm handshakes and embrace.

The cheers grew louder and people.. mostly members of the younger generation gather in circles here and there expressing the joy.

Yuguno glares down at his own shadow and ask Argonar

''So, what should i do now? All i've ever done is hate. All i've ever known how to do is hate them.''

Argonar gave Yuguno a pat on the shoulder and says :

''It's not to late to change. You can start now.''

''Can i?''

''you can. I'm sure of it.''

Argonar is sure because he knew what it was like when both sides were a single country. It was a kindly nation. By no means rich, it was yet a happy country of compassionate people.

I'm telling you, Yuguno. People can change.''

''If you say so..''

''Look over there. Look at this people enjoying themselves.''

Hesitantly, Yuguno raises his head. Around the wall a celebration is beginning. Young people are dancing, singing, toasting each other, engaging in conversation and all of them used to be companions of Yuguno's who received the same education he did. No doubt the young people on the other side were similarly educated to hate.

''What do you see over there? Demons? Devil?''

Yuguno shakes his head and lets the tightness go out of his shoulders.

''I'm beginning to wonder, Argonar, why until now i've been so..''

Arganor pats him on the shoulder again to signal that he understands.

''People can changed'' he says.

''They can change from hating to loving and from loving to hating.''

Yes, Argonar knew about that as well. He saw how such a wonderfully unified country was divided in two at the end of a violent civil war.

''Don't change anymore.'' Argonar says. Not just to Yuguno but to all the smiling young as well.

A young girl hesitantly approaches Yuguno. She from the other side. She holds a plate full of cookies.

''Have some if you'd like. I baked them this morning.'' she says.

The cookies are heart-shaped.

Urged on by the smiling Argonar. Yuguno reaches out for the cookie, his face turned red.

Th.. thanks.'' he says shyly and takes a bite of his cookie.

Good? she asks.

Yuguno turns a cleeper shade o red and says Delicious!

White birds cut across the blue sky from the other side to this side. From this side to the other. The white birds sail through the sky almost joyfully as if to tell the people below..

''In the beginning there were no borders''

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