Max was too weak to stay awake and Liesel let him sleep for the rest of the day while she sat close to him reading. It was a book called "The secrets of dawn".
She came to the final paragraph:
...Together they whitnessed the first light of the day. And although the stars were fainting, they knew they would always remain there, unmoved and disregarding all glory of terror what might stirr the world beneath them...
Moved by those words, she lifted herself and very quietly brought a few paint cans into the room. She chose the wall in front of the beds and applied a coat light blue.
Papa had taught her very well how to create more colours. She mixed it to get a darker blue and painted the top of the wall dark blue and gradually lighter until the bottom, where it was a very pale blue.
She only had white paint left and that was a good thing indeed, she thought, for yellow stars might not be very appropriate. Yellow stars, she sadly realized, would never again be just stars.
So she painted many white stars on the top half of the wall. Some big and others small. And with a very thin brush she wrote names below some of the stars. They were called Hans and Rosa, Rudy and Werner, and Paula and Rachel, like their mothers...