The Star Riders and the Mystery of the Fairy Circles. Peter Kerry

so trusting that he built them a shelter against the strong sun, which they could enter and leave as they pleased. Mostly they grazed near his hut or trotted to quench their thirst only a few steps away from the watercourse of an almost dried up river, which at this point formed several pools in which

      the water caught before it dropped a few meters into a valley where it formed another larger pool with a small cave behind a waterfall.

      So there was plenty of wonderfully clear fresh water. Only when heavy rain fell in the highlands could this trickle briefly turn into a mighty torrential river.

      Today he was too tired to calculate the stars, he just let his thoughts drift away from the beautiful night sky.

      He was snapped out of his dreams with a bang. For a second the vast landscape was lit up by a huge ball of fire, followed immediately by a deafening roar of thunder.