knesinka at on wrists. As if brand.
Knes spoke well. Not too shortly and not too in detail, all
moderately. He knew where to joke, where to force to be proud. Galiradskiye
aged men and Saint magicians listened to it, sitting in wooden chairs under
motley leather bed curtains - a gift of the street usmary. The wolfhound listened in
a third of an ear and did not look back at a knesinka. What could he make for it?.
Only more and more time to rummage around crowd sharp-sightedly squinted, almost not
the blinking eyes...
Simuranami calls the surprising beings similar to enormous dogs,
but allocated with wings for flight. God Grozy gave these wings to them, gave for
the fact that once their ancestors managed to soften his anger. Highly in mountains
they nest and anybody has over them no power. They obey only
country houses - fragile, big-eyed Sovereigns of Clouds. "Do not shout: a grief, -
the Vienna wisdom edifies. - Wait a moment, while you will see the dead
simurana..."
While you live, necessarily you believe in immortality.
And life will break - and the world will not notice, losses.
The moon will not shudder, stars from heaven do not osypitsya...
The uniform leaf will fall, but there will be a wood.
In infancy you seem to yourself a Universe navel,
Wreath and zertsaly, top of human generations,
The only thing "I" for which the world is created:
It happens to disappear - also it immediately will disappear.
But here the last doors will ahead be opened,
Consciousness will go out - and the world will not notice loss.
You jealousy rave, you whisper a treasured name,
At a wedding others you have fun with guests others,
You are busy with affairs, you dream of something desired,
About tomorrow you argue as though about this,
As though all eternity lies at you ahead...
And heart suddenly - time! - also stumbled in a breast.
To someone behind stars, there, beyond the last limit,
Bothered to estimate moments of your life,
And everything, under a leg emptiness, running start is also ended,
Also there is no person, - and whether precisely there was a person?
Also there is neither dream, nor hopes, nor love nonsense,
One Defeat erased former victories.
You thought: just about I will treat, only operit wings!
And wings broke - and the world did not notice loss.
9. 9. GREY WOOL
The dog woke up in the wood. In the nice, pine wood for which are well-known
there were radical Vienna lands. Brown trunks, gray-haired near the earth,
solemnly rose under the dome of heaven, and there, on not representable
to height, magnificent bluish kroner were moved slightly by wind. And below, under
shaggy junipers stood a shade of giants, green candles,
berry low shrubs kudryavitsya, carpets forest herbs and mosses lay, in
which from summer to late fall were not to the translation to mushrooms...
The dog rose: long gray paws, mighty lean body and fluffy,
slightly curved tail. The most dense bristle on a neck was divided in two by leather
belt. On a collar something sparkled, precisely the dew drop which caught
ray of sunlight. Out of the corner of the eye the dog saw iridescent iridescent gloss, but
to izvernut the head and to consider that there, it did not manage it.
The dog pricked up sharp ears, smelled air, shuddered and understood that
it was necessary to hurry.
He moved a little and ran, conducted to one to it by distinct smells.
At first a large lynx, and then when at the left the lowland opened and loomed
impenetrable shadow of frequent fir groves, - in all skok. He did not look for a game and
did not hide from the enemy, but strong paws on an old habit carried him
forward absolutely silently.
The girl took out a pink coral milky cap from a grass nest, smiled,
kissed a round shaggy hat and removed a fungus in a basket. Basket
since dawn managed to become heavy rather. Having found the next family
mushrooms, the girl put a basket down to the ground and gathered mushrooms in hands or in
hem, and then came back and poured out everything at once.
She asked to weave her zaplechny birch bark kuzovka like those long ago,
with what went to the wood children are more senior, but did not listen to a request. Mother
considered her not only the plain woman, but also the puny creature: to such baby
only give kuzovka, now the navel will tear. And a basket, it is a basket and
is, excessively you will not put in it.
The girl straightened a back and stretched, then sat down on the stone overgrown
with one side spotty yellow-black lichen. Mother did not allow it
to sit on stones, claiming that so not for long and to catch a cold. A boulder in
the business was cold, but the girl, to spite of the ban, continued to sit.
All the same the kuzovka this year not to be interrogated by it. Thanks and that
though took in the wood on mushrooms. Did not send guilty, as usual, a mouth
geese yes did not hand with themselves a distaff with a fair tow: напрясть, while
you graze, linen threads for the future...
The girl scratched a nail a pole between clavicles where earlier light hung
the bead, also sighed. Because of this bead to it then poured so in the spring that
it was sick to sit. And then long inspired what bitter shame caused
it, ungrateful, to the sort. Purposely you will not invent it. To give a sign
the future feminity to the passer - cross, in the first and the last
time to what was seen... Yes without maternal permission. Yes forward seniors
sisters! Yes to whom kind, and far off on an ugly face to see that - to the villain
to thorough...
Was not able to store, mother strictly kept saying, well it is so not necessary to you,
to the shameless person, new. So far in a poneva you will not jump...
Here if to ask it, the girl thought. It to me at once kuzovka
weaved.
Foreign person appeared from fir groves. The girl noticed
the stranger and scaredly grabbed edges of a stone on which sat.
Black fir groves lay in the middle of light pine forest as if an island
alien, bessolnechny, hostile world. There no berries were found,
mushrooms. Only killing toadstools somehow got through
beddings of packed needles also stood in dead silence, pale gray,
hardly considerably shining...
Both Badgers, and Dappled Deers of fir groves avoided. Girl never
there did not go, did not come nearer and now. Searches of mushrooms finished it only
to a glade from where the limit of blackness was visible. But also it, seemingly,
was enough to adjoin to the evil. Because foreign person went
directly to it.
The fear dried up a throat and made wadded the fingers clinging to a stone.
Probably, it was necessary to run. The man went a wide, confident step.
Broad-shouldered, average years temnoborody man. You will not painfully escape from
it. Or perhaps it not with thin intention? Perhaps got lost in a thicket, the road
wants to ask?.
But at the person was not either a kuzovka, or swags behind the back. He smiled,
and from it it was even more terrible.
It was already in ten st
eps when the girl at last broke from a stone and
ran, having thrown a basket. And at once heard as the heather behind cracked
under boots of the persecutor. The girl rushed as a leveret, unmistakably
understanding that here now it will be overtaken. The heather cracked closer and closer,
the person on the run muffledly swore through clenched teeth. Probably, it any more not
smiled. If it alarms adults, and veins will understand that someone
tried to raise a hand against their child...
The girl almost reached undersized junipers, for some reason
seeming to it saving. But did not manage to dive into dense thickets.
Towards, having drenched with a smell of a dog, shaggy rose in a silent jump
gray body. The experienced animal from dispersal flew over bushes and rose between it and
her persecutor. Half-civilized, incredibly furious dog of well-known
Vienna breed. From those that will not move back also from the whole pack of wolves. It
most it was from a distance possible to take for very large wolf. And on a neck at a dog
there was a leather collar, and on it as gemstone, it was poured
crystal bead,
The girl whom it nearly brought down from legs, from surprise and new
fright stretched on the earth, but at once jumped and began to recede away,
did not rest a back against a tree yet. She never saw it earlier
the dog, was also not time to deliberate, whose he who sent it to it on
revenue.
The dog did not bark. Also did not growl. He was motionless, having reared wool on
nape and ощерив in a terrible grin dvukhvershkovy teeth. When person
stepped aside, he stepped too.
People were not a coward.
- You are whose, a doggie? - he asked quietly and it is even tender, having solved for
began to try to calm a dog. The dog did not believe it and canines not
hid. The girl looked at them round eyes, nestling on a tree
so, as if it could part and hide it in the depth. It
saw that the man's hand slowly approached a zone knife.
The person was meanwhile convinced that he after a dog did not hurry it not less
furious owner-venn. He quickly, very quickly bent down, grabbed from under
legs the rotten bough which acquired a moss also started them in a dog, hoping to anger
and to cause it on an unreasonable jump. In other hand of the stranger as if
itself arose long, in one and a half spans, a hunting knife.
The dog really jumped. Only slightly earlier. And much more bystry, than
the person assumed. The man was going to hit it on a muzzle,
turning aside from canines and to stab a knife in heart, instead pes
jaws were closed as if a trap, on his armed hand. Person
howled from pain: both bones below an elbow crackled as soon as crackled
heather at him under legs. The dog overturned it down to the ground as if
rag doll, released the hand which became harmless and came paws on
breast.
The person was a big hunter prior to dangerous fights and long ago lost count
to fights in which found the winner even worst way out. It not
tested special fear, even when over the throat clanked sharp as
daggers, canines. He was frightened to spasms, having only seen EYES.
Gray-green what he at dogs never met. And still LOOK.
Look what is not at an animal.
The man instantly was dripping with sticky sweat and cried for horror, having been in time
to understand that ran into the werewolf.
Also died.
For fear.
The dog did not begin to tear the dead. Just sniffed and departed, having left it
to lie with madly warped person and a shameful wet spot on
colored linen trousers. The girl still stared, not in
forces to come unstuck from the tree. The dog slowly approached it, looked
in a face also sighed, and then hung the head and nestled a shoulder on her hip.
The touch of a strong shaggy body oddly calmed her. It
indecisively gave a hand, touched sharp ears and saw how it is avaricious
the long tail shook to and fro. Having grown bolder, the girl began to iron gray
animal to whom most of adults simply would not venture to approach
close, then embraced him for a neck.
- Bead! Just as washing, - she was surprised, having considered crystal
the pea firmly sewed in thick skin of a collar. For some time it
forgot even about the dead person lying in ten steps from it.
The dog was carefully released from her hands, ran off, aside and returned,
bearing in teeth a basket with mushrooms. The girl took it for a collar, and an animal
led it a circle of juniper thickets, away from a glade, away from
ominous fir grove, - directly there, where as she well knew, wandered on
to the wood two of her sisters, mother and elder brother. Soon ahead indeed
the having something in common voices were heard.
Mother stood on the glade which grew with a fern and with anxiety
looked around, щуря and deliberating short-sighted eyes whether it is time to go to look for
the got lost child. Not that the daughter of Dappled Deers could
to get lost in the wood. Just it is always better when dithat in the eyes. Especially
such disobedient,
The girl released a collar of a dog and at full speed ran to mother,
at last having burst into tears for the experienced fear. When she turned back,
to show to mother of the defender, her basket stood in soft
to forest grass, and the gray dog was not visible anywhere. Only on the basket handle
found then traces of strashenny teeth. Yes in a poluversta from that place, near
fir groves, muzhchiny-Oleni saw and in the same place buried foreign person,
died of fear.
In several days after arrival кнес Sense Nesmeyanovich at presence
velimorets and the senior team made a ceremony of covering of the person over the daughter.
The wolfhound did not like this ceremony, as well as in general all solvennsky
the ceremonies concerning a wedding. At venn the guy groom, becoming
the husband, passed into a family of the wife, and it was correct and reasonable. People
marry to raise children and to what else sort can belong
the baby, if not to maternal?. And then, to change something in itself
stuck to the man, and not the woman at all. And even the veriest fool is capable
to comprehend it, having just seen at first on Mother Earth, and then on the Father
Sky. In the sky bystry clouds scurry about and violent winds, in it that bubble
the dawn dies away, morning inflames. For changes, which with the sky
occur per day, the earth needs year. If the terrestrial face begins
to morshchinitsya, losing or finding the new rivers and mountains, - it means that
with Mother Earth at all trouble...
At the solvenn which forgot establishments of ancestors, and with them and conscience,
the woman was transferred from a parental family to a family of the husband. And that not
were indignant with an indecency of soul of the esteemed ancestors, were let on
cunning: diligent mourned the bride, as if dying for former
make related, ryaditsya in mournful clothes and even covered a girl's face heavy
dense veil which she did not take off till the most wedding night. Because
"died" should not seem with live, talk to them and the more so
to taste the general fo
od...
Such treatment of the woman was opposite to a wolfhound to nausea, only
here his opinions were not painfully asked here.
The ceremony took place in good sunny day in Krom yard. And that good,
what though was not forgotten about the fair Sun, under sentence of Gods
looking behind the Truth human. Even at that disgrace, in which
solvenna stayed, they had enough mind not to make covering of the person under
earth rooftop. In the middle of the yard spread big monomatanskiya
carpet, and knesinka of Elen stepped into it after the father: imaginary died
it will be from now on forbidden not only prove to be to a sun, but also
to set foot on land on which live go. Knesinka smiled, nodded
the head to the gathered members of household. What there became at it at heart,
nobody should not see true feelings of the daughter of a knes. Weakness instant, when
she in horror grabbed hand of the Wolfhound, happened and passed.
As there was actually a ceremony, the bodyguard did not see. It
stood out of a carpet, near one of corners, having settled so that the sun not
stuck together eyes. At two other corners as two identical sculptures, stood
brothers Dashing. The wolfhound did not need to look back, he already knew:
twins, that was forces adopted both its bearing, and turn of the head, and
look, and dead-pan. Boys, the Wolfhound thought. What from them you will take.
Another was much more surprising: near the fourth corner rose in
vseoruzhiya the boyar Krut.
Veins heard how Sense Nesmeyanovich pronounced solemn words,
which solvenna considered in such cases necessary. Then with hardly
by audible rustling it was developed, heavy abusive silk of ancient began to flow
the dark red cover transferred in a family of a knes the second century.
Here the human meeting responded a conjoint sigh, and seigniorial daughters on
porch raised the sad, tugging at heartstrings song about parting with native
house. This song was intended to butter up too
patrons ancestors, telling them, - itself supposedly I go to other sort,
by force conduct.
Knes raised a voice again and, without touching skin, took the daughter by hand through
cover. The Velimorsky ambassador low bowed to him and respectfully accepted
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