Zacharias Papantoniou

“ Costakis is afraid of ghosts. He remembers old Charmaine's words as if he were hearing them now. He remembers the old man near the mill, who made the sign of the cross because of the Moor's rock.
And while he was walking, he's thinking: “What are we looking for here? It seems haunted! The water gap all around, the unexplored hills, the huge stones which guard the Moor. The Moor must be up there, on the point; he must be sleeping... he's going to hear us as we're coming up... he'll spring up. He'll catch us, throw us to the bottom of I don't know which dark cave. For years and years...” ”

“ The Moor's Rock That day was the best of them all. They had never loved Phanis as much as today when they found him.
They are inseparable today. They all went together to see the water gush up from the rock; they went down to the plane trees altogether. Each one would have given his life for the others. ”

“ You're remembering old Charmaine's talk and you're afraid, said Andreas. But tell me, has Phanis been to the Moor's rock? And yet he is here with us. Nothing happened to him. We're not going to let ourselves be intimidated like the old people. ”