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Heaven on Earth - Sibongengani Siphesihle Luthuli (South Africa)

A malevolent blackness eerily wraps itself around Auba as he dredges through a haunted forest under a moonless sky. Scattered tree stumps are buried like charcoal tombstones, when a foureyed owl with jade green feathers swoops down to dig into the ground and pulls out a luminous twin-tailed rat. Before the glowing squirming rodent can be eaten by the owl, Auba appears next to the owl just as it is about to fly away and sweeps his left arm across the air. He has on a thick furry pelt-like cloak. He cuts the head off the owl and reaches for an outlandish blade on his right hip with his left hand. He slices the owl up cleanly, with the feathers still floating in the air by the time he’s caught the skinned meat. He grabs it all with his left hand as the rat digs away to hide, and reveals the rest of the right side of his inner pelt, where there is space under his right shoulder for him to hang the meat. His entire right arm is missing, and it seems that that part of his pelt also has a strange cosmic like rectangular metallic box, which he stares at then turns away after securing his meat. Auba holds his cloak tightly with his left arm and looks towards a colossal mountain bathed in a heavenly glow that lights up the surroundings.
“Ehgo...” he whispers to himself solemnly.

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