(Act 5: A little boy waking up.)

The boy woke up slowly, like children do. No important agenda of things to do.
No sudden rush to daily chores. There had been an interesting dream though. A
dream with a man and some game and some prize. And his father. No, not a
dream. It happened. Yes, it really happened - the little boy remembered. He
had been just wandering about in the nearby moat and encountered a man that
had smelled like, like a fire maybe. Or like his uncle when he returned from
his work at that volcano mine years ago. The man had had a beard and pointy
eyes. The boy remembered
he was afraid of the man at first, but when he had spoken he proved out to be
no threat.

His voice had been calm and friendly almost. Convincing. Yes that was what his
father had always said when there came some man from the city to collect
taxes. That they sounded convincing, never mind the nature of their job. And
this man at the moat had suggested the boy a simple game of dice. And the
prize should be anything the boy wanted. Anything. And they had played.

The game was about a simple throw of dice. One each. If the boy won, he would
get one wish fulfilled. One only, not three like in those fairy tales his
grandmother used to read to him. It had sounded a little complicated until the
man had showed his die, which had six sides to it. It was simple, both threw
once and they would check the score.

They had started. The smelly man got six on his throw, the best. The boy had
felt sorry because he knew six was the best score and he thought he couldn't
win. The man had noticed the grave look on the little boy's face and promised
to fill his wish if he got six also. Which he then did. It was a tie, six
against six. The man said that because tomorrow was going to be sixth day of
the sixth month, and it was so jolly a coincidence, he would count this score
in favor of the boy. The boy didn't know much about calendar. But he won. The
boy won. And he got the wish. The man said he had to be quick though, and
decide the prize without delay. The man said he had had not so merry past with
wishes that had been thoroughly determined.
Then he had winked and smiled.