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She smiled. Her lips moved. No sound came, but Davit understood: Papillon qartulad. I never left. I just became the language.

And as he wrote each letter, it trembled. Then it lifted. Then it flew out the window, joining the other butterflies under the fig tree. papillon qartulad

Davit believed he was that man.

She raised her hand. In her palm rested all the letters of the Georgian alphabet, each one a tiny, breathing butterfly. Ani , Bani , Gani ... They rose as one, a swirling cloud of script and wings, and wrapped around Davit like a cloak. She smiled

The painted wing shivered. It lifted from the ash. It fluttered once, twice, and flew out the open window into the Tbilisi night, trailing a thread of gold. I never left

That evening, Davit sat down with a fresh sheet of vellum and a quail-feather quill. He began to copy, from memory, the Papillon Qartulad . But this time, he wrote not with ink, but with the ashes of the old cover mixed with the water from Nino’s grave.