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He opened his eyes to see a shaft of light.
From one, the last in line, came a thin shaft of light.
And he saw other bodies in the shaft of light.
He felt something unexpected then, like a shaft of light through everything else that day.
The shaft of light from the front window caught him now.
The shaft of light dropped and did not rise again.
A shaft of light fell on the snow outside the kitchen.
The small room was dark, but for the shaft of light from the hallway.
A very thin shaft of light came into the cell.
Suddenly far above her head she saw a little shaft of light.
