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Saturday night I was sound asleep when my father switched on the lamp. Looking at him in the bright light, I mumbled, "What's up?"
"Come with me," he smiled.
I followed him outside. Looking up, I saw greenish lights shimmering in the sky. They looked like giant curtains waving in the breeze,
"It's the aurora borealis, or northern lights," said my father. He explained what causes the aurora borealis, but I didn't hear what he
was saying. All I could do was watch with wonder as the eerie lights silently flickered.
Which word best replaces the underlined word in the second sentence?

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.