I saw a school on the left side of the road. The signboard read ‘Once Upon A Time Beslan School’. When I got closer, I saw through the door a group of kids in the courtyard digging a large pit. I asked them why they were digging a hole. They said that one day in the future, the school was going to be raided and hundreds of their friends were going to perish that day, therefore they were digging this bottomless ditch to prevent those who were coming to raid from getting through. As I walked away, they all kept digging and joking with each other. — ahmet ogut, exploded city