- Did not put, m-r-solution, did not put to unmarried madam to sit near the unfamiliar man of one in the room! Did not put, m-r-r-r-r …
- And whether business when Animals say about how their hostess needs to arrive, a-a-a?! - flared up, having reddened, the Fairy. And then, having seized the Kitten by a pad, quite inconsiderately showed the door him from the room and closed a door before his nose, exactly in the same way as that made it in a bath. So, nothing remained to the Kitten how to recognize the defeat and to go to sleep. And the Fairy happy with that she managed to revenge the Kitten for his arbitrariness, returned to the young man's bed, put near it an easy chair and villages.
Night stood silent, lunar. Silvery streams of soft light got through an open window, lighting up a face of the sleeping patient. On it, keeping the eyes glued, the Fairy also looked. And no wonder - already she did not see many hundreds of years here in the district of people, and she in the house had no guests already couple of thousands of years. Really, people here almost never get, to fairies from Skies to fly to such solitude the lack of time, and it is simpler to neigbours in guards of the Limit to contact it telepathic. The fairy could count here on communication only with animals and birds, except for Animals, of course, yes the mermaids swimming in the small river near the house. But with mermaids of the fairy could never find common language. Do not feed with their bread, let's gambol in water yes to sing obscene songs, and to fairies it is absolutely uninteresting. That is why appearance here of the person moreover and young men, absolutely the baby in comparison with it, could not but cause in it hot curiosity especially as so close to the person and furthermore a male, she saw for the first time.
When Animals already fell asleep, and the house was shrouded by a silence cover, the Fairy, at last, decided to give in to a rush of such curiosity, usual for any lonely woman. First of all, she furtively felt a body of sleeping and was convinced that it differs in nothing from a body of fairies, only more rough and covered with strange indumentum. But even more it struck found on a neck at sleeping gold, quite thick and strong chain. The medallion with the small crown which is laid out entirely from the diamonds which are fancifully poured at a moonlight was attached to a chain. Over a crown the letter was engraved by silver "And". On the right hand of the young man the curious Fairy found a big signet ring, also from cast gold with the same engraving. What it meant the Fairy understood at once - on a visit it had not just a young man, but the real prince!
What pleasure filled heart of the Fairy when she learned about it! Since the childhood, still studying at School of Fairies, she liked to watch bright dreams in pools of dreams about great princesses and noble princes, about brave knights and their loved ladies. How many times she saw herself there as in reality, as the ladylove of some prince or even the queen - not to count! But, to the greatest regret, on its homeland never was and there could not be princes and knights, the Skies are a reserved place where from a century the leg of the person and furthermore - men could not go. There lived exclusively fairies - the representative of the highest race Tselestiya, eternally young powerful Keepers of the Order and Prosperity this blossoming as a world garden.
- I will call you Prinze, - by the voice shivering for nervousness the Fairy whispered, stroking the thin white handle a silky fair hair of the young man. - You and really prince! And I will make everything that you remained with me in a lodge forever that you became my Prinze! I will care for you, I will protect you, I will love you, and then to me will already not be lonely very never, and I will have small children too, and I will become the happiest fairy on light! - The girl pensively raised eyes to the sky and blinked, having imagined future happy family life. And the fairy, as we know, if imagines something, never any more will give up on it until everything comes true exactly as she imagined it. Such is these surprising people!
But during the next moment out of a pensive state she was brought by Prinze's groan. It dreamed a nightmare. Hands and his legs involuntarily twitched, the head was swept up on a pillow, on a forehead sweat acted. Then the Fairy got from a tunic pocket a small comb from soft pink material and began to comb his hair, singing in a low voice something in language, melodious, but absolutely unclear for a human ear. From these songs in Prinze's soul rest set in again, and then the fatigue overcame also the Fairy. She fell asleep directly on a chair.
7.
What is the time Prinze overslept, he did not know. Dreamed it that it sank in some deep dark sea, suddenly came up on a surface.
Rare minutes of an enlightenment he opened eyes and saw over himself a ceiling of some room, a blanket corner on the chin, someone's hands - shaggy, smooth which gave something to it or for some reason touched it. And then, having completely grown weak, Prinze's reason plunged into darkness again.
Sometimes to it it became absolutely uncomfortable. He saw some terrible toothy mouths, wild hungry and spiteful eyes, sharp-clawed paws reaching for it from darkness. But when to it became absolutely nevterpezh, suddenly from where from far away pleasant melodious sounds reached it and waves of warm rest pacified his soul, and spiteful creatures vanished somewhere. Before eyes there was a quiet warm smooth surface of some lake, for some reason pink color into which it dived. To it became there so well that he forgot everything on light and began to laugh joyfully then sank into a sleep without dreams.
So repeated many times how many - the Prince did not know. But once, after the next immersion to the pink lake, he felt so best of all that he could open eyes completely and recover finally. Having hardly risen, he sat down on beds. The head strongly began to spin, but he could look round decently around.
There was an early morning. The sun hardly seemed behind the horizon and sent the first, yet not bright, reddish beams to the room. The room in which it appeared was small, modest, but cozy. All its situation consisted of a small case from pink color, couple of shelves with different household accessories, a wash basin and a bed. Usual print curtains of also pink color hung on windows, walls - are pasted over with pink wall-paper, on a window sill the big crystal vase with eternal fresh flowers, apparently, roses flaunted.
The abundance of pink color in a situation seemed to it strange. The prince wanted to get up, but could not - the head strongly began to spin.
Then Prinze attentively examined himself. It lay on a single bed with pink bed linen and a blanket. The right hand was plastered, the right leg too, the head is tied up by bandage.
"Yes - and - and-and, - Prinze thought, - and where so managed me?" Suddenly at Prinze the neck was combed, and he stretched to it the left hand and …
"Oh! And where my chain? I precisely remember that I had a gold chain on a neck and something on it dangled. Something very much and very important …" Prinze rummaged around all bed and already intended to get up after all to look also under it too as he suddenly felt on himself someone's stare.
Prinze sharply turned towards the cracked window and saw the girl with long wet golden hair there. She with big curiosity examined Prinze, at the same time expression of her eyes was approximately such what is at the child standing at a show-window of shop of children's toys. The prince felt ill at ease, he was absolutely nude. He bashfully pulled a blanket up to the chin and reddened.
- Whether you look for it, the little man? - Crafty smiling, the girl pulled out a medallion and a ring from a dress pocket.
- It … - Prinze with astonishment answered, still shy hiding under a blanket. - From where you have them? Who are you? Where I?
- Here I will not tell! - the Fairy answered, dexterously hiding the finds for a back as it is done by small children, wishing to tease the companions. - At first you tell who you are, and then, well, and I will tell you.
But Prinze felt ill at ease from disappointment that some little girl dares to treat so him, and, without having sustained, flared up:
- And on what it to the right you do not answer me?! I am a man, I - am more main! Besides I am more senior than you! To me twenty one and I can
already carry a sword, simply … I do not want to brag, - he in a low voice a tongue twister, added any sword at him, of course, was not trace and.
At these words the girl swept with laughter and so that even leaned the elbows about a window sill not to fall. It seemed, it just about will overturn the vase with the flowers standing nearby.
- Okhkhkh … … the man … is more main than an umor … twenty one … Ha-ha-ha …
The prince at first understood nothing. Then, flushed with anger and ka-a-a-ak will give a fist on a window sill! The vase with the flowers departed directly on the earth. But it made laugh the girl even more. And Prinze, not in forces to think up how still to show the discontent, confusedly murmured:
- I do not understand what happened to little girls what they afford it? By what right they dare to talk to the man of a noble origin so?!
Otsmeyavshis there is a lot of, the Fairy got a pink nasal kerchief from a dress pocket and began to wipe eyes, wet from tears:
- Well, made laugh … Well, umor … Long ago I so did not laugh … Even the Puppy with the Kitten of such jokes do not break away …
- Answer immediately who you are?! And by what right you so treat me?!
The person Fei accepted crafty playful expression again:
- And on it! By the right of the conqueror! I took you prisoner and you are my captive, and the captive is obliged to answer when he is interrogated, isn't it?
And here the Fairy buzzed wings and - hop! - instantly it appeared directly in the middle of a room.
The prince, just like the scared child, whisked with the head under a blanket.
"Fairy! - in horror he thought. - Oh, Creator, real fairy! With wings! I houses at the fairy! I was gone!" On a forehead at Prinze cold sweat acted, and in eyes darkened, each inhabitant Tselestiya from the cradle knows that that man who at least once met in a dense forest the fairy never comes back home any more!
The fairy ceased to laugh. She was very puzzled with such turn of business.
- Hey, you, and well get out! - she began to stick into Prinze with some stick. - And well get out, I speak, and I will pull out that by force! Unless you do not know that with fairies mortal do not act this way, a-a-a? They have to answer when they are asked!
From stick touches on all body of Prinze some unpleasant itch crept away. At last, it did not sustain and put out the head from under a blanket:
- And you will not turn me into a rabbit or into a partridge? - stared Prinze at the Fairy big, childly naive eyes, and that swept with laughter again.
- And from what …. from what … suddenly … to me … … to turn you?
- Well-at-at-at … In fairy tales read about it. And all speak in the district - fairies, they, … - and Prinze turned that a finger at a temple.
- Okhkhkh … well … long ago … I … so … not … laughed … long ago … Everything, is solved! - otsmeyavshis, the Fairy loudly clapped, - you remain with me to live! You will entertain me at a leisure, and that Animals already rather bothered me: at them already what one thousand years the same numbers! - and then it playfully slapped Prinze a stick directly in the head. From pain Prinze turned white and grabbed a healthy hand the hurt place, wounds its sense did not heal yet. The fairy understood that here she obviously overdid and scaredly embraced Prinze.
- What is with you? To you it is bad? And well, wait … - it got the magic pink comb again: couple of touches to Prinze's hair - and pain right there ceased.
- Forgive me, Prinze, I absolutely forgot that you at me the wounded, you cannot be touched … Just I so could not wait to take a fun with you, I so seldom have guests! - and the Fairy sadly looked down.
- How … as … as you called me? - puzzly Prinze asked.
- How? - also with astonishment the Fairy answered. - "Prince"! And unless you are not a prince?
- I do not know … I do not remember … Some blackness in the head …
- And how call you, too you do not remember?
- Too … - Prinze uncertainly answered, having scratched the top.
- And where you live? Where your parents?
- N are N - N do not, any failure … I do not remember …
- Everything is clear! - having clapped, the Fairy exclaimed. - Probably, when you hit the head against that fir-tree root, and struck your memory!
- Well and it is remarkable! - suddenly unexpectedly she burst out laughing. - Means if you do not know from where you and who you are, then, therefore, and are no place to go to you, and therefore you will live at me - and a point!
- About what such root? And why I am "Prince"? Tell me for the sake of the Creator, oh, the Beautiful Fairy!
It was necessary to sit down to the Fairy on a chair at a headboard of a bed of Prinze and to tell all story of the first meeting with it about which we already know, and also about what is meant by his medallion and a signet ring which mere mortals cannot have.
- … There now, - the Fairy summed up, playfully smiling. - So judge: you - "time" - bending fingers, she told, - was taken prisoner to me (it is my wood and to people not the place here!), and - "two" - I to you saved life, and therefore you - "time" - are obliged to obey me and - "two" - to entertain me and to make laugh, and …
- Madam, madam, well leave you alone the patient, I beg, mya-at-at! I as the master of medicine insist on it! - the big-eared gray head of the Kitten seemed in a doorway. - The patient has an amnesia, a severe craniocereberal trauma, two fractures, and you slight him here! You will play with it when recovers, I beg, to a mya-u! And in general, long ago it is time to feed him and it is time for you to have breakfast.
The fairy has a snack a sponge from disappointment:
- "Still Animals did not order me! Who here hostess?", - she thought. But arguments of the Kitten seemed to it convincing, and the Fairy unwillingly went to a door. There she once again turned to Prinze and, cunning smiling, winked at him:
- You here especially do not relax! You will recover - you will expiate the debt to me to the last droplet! - and, having playfully threatened it with a finger, left.
And the Kitten with the Puppy, meanwhile, opened a door more widely and imported into the room a little table on castors with food and drinks. A kitten, as if apologizing, quietly made a purring sound, tying a napkin on Prinze's neck:
- You do not take offense at our hostess, m-r-r-r-myau. It is kind. Just we here, in a solitude, seldom have guests … For the last years five hundred, in my opinion, in general was nobody! A puppy, and you what you cost? Give, impose so long!
And Prinze from surprise could not utter words: "Well, dela-a-a-a! In one day miracles such - the fairy with wings, plush toys talk to me as live … To tell whom - will not believe!"
And the Kitten, meanwhile, suddenly lowered a voice and conspiratorial tone whispered to it on an ear:
- She at your bed spent three days, all conjured, treated you - could not drag with the Puppy! Keep in mind, she is a girl good, kind, house …
8.
In a week it became better for Prinze. He could already pace the room slowly. The beautiful Fairy, using it, began to discharge gradually the Kitten and the Puppy of treatment, and then and began to feed the patient independently, generally with cotton candy from magic pink clouds which fairies eat. Still she forced it to drink curative broth from bitter korenyev. The prince, of course, screwed up the face, but the Fairy so strictly and imperiously watched at him that he submitted and drank - as we know, in general better not to contact fairies.
Soon the Kitten allowed Prinze is behind a dining table and even to walk on vicinities, and now for communication of the Fairy and Prinze there is no obstacle left at all - to it, it is necessary to tell, to great happiness. And Prinze understood more and more that his affection for the Fairy grows. Earlier he was afraid of it - you never know, still will turn into an animal what! - and now began to notice that derzkovaty imperious tone of the Fairy - no more than a mask. In soul it at all not such …
- … Hey, Prinze, and
well we will go for a walk with me on the river! The kitten resolved!
Though hours struck already eleven o'clock in the evening, it was necessary to go to Prinze for a walk.
The lodge of the Fairy settled down on round as a saucer to the green lawn which grew with camomiles, dandelions, cornflowers and other forest flowers why from outside she reminded a flower bed. Slightly farther, on rise, the cozy pine coppice with an arbor for rest settled down. There was a marvelous smell of pine needles, "useful to lungs", - the practical Kitten noticed as always. Behind a coppice - the sloping river bank which grew with willows which so surprisingly rustled with leaves on wind that there was a feeling as if they exchanged words with each other about something mysterious in language, clear only for them. And further, on other side of the river, there was a thrown water-mill which empty was shaking up water blades: mermaids liked to ride them with happy squeal at night.
Across these places also there passed walk which, of course, was necessary in order that Prinze restored the health somewhat quicker.
- Tell, the Fairy and what you do here, in this solitude? Why you cannot leave this place? - at last, did not stand Prinze and asked a question which was at it at the tip of the tongue for a long time.
- "Curiosity killed the cat", so, apparently, at you speak? - as always the Fairy maliciously answered.
The prince some time kept silent, and then again with some children's ingenuous spontaneity inattentively blurted out:
- Tell, the Fairy, and you in general marry somebody? Or you breed not as people and animals?
The fairy got up as driven and is attentive, seriously looked at it. At the same time it seemed to the prince that he at all desire cannot look away from her eyes, which as if saw him through so did not remain hidden any his secret thought or desire. This feeling was very unpleasant and Prinze felt a great relief when the Fairy, at last, released his eyes. Her face accepted the same playful and derisive tone again, as earlier:
- And what it so interests you? Unless you do not know that it is dangerous to fairies to ask such questions?
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