The explosion rocked Morzik. For a brief moment he thought that Curioso had mistimed his leap, but then he caught sight of his misshapen figure limping off across the other side of the tracks where the mighty freight train lay in a distorted heap of metal and steam. Soon the area would be teeming with police and troops, and Morzik knew that he would have to get away fast. He raced back to the woods.Quickly scribbling a note with the pencil he always kept behind his one remaining ear, he stuffed it into the tiny cylinder and attached it to the bird's leg. "Bolnolyka strabar, kapotna dratona, bolnolyka strabar com il as tronopa vrednar!"*, he cried as he launched the bird into the air.
*subtitle "Fly away!"