Unconquered Sun (94 page)

Fairies with eyes, round from surprise, it is absolutely dumbfounded looked at their Knowledge.

- … if We did not know what the only award for this person will be … - simply to return him to the beloved wife - only it is capable to inhale in him the life stolen by the Invincible Sun. I swear the Creator, - having turned facing court ladies, the Second Knowledge told with an ironical smile, - very strange couple! When We asked what award she wants for the services rendered to Community, she told - the husband's lives and when We answered that it is not an award as to execute him there is nothing, she told - I want to leave with it in the hut at the Limit again … You hear, the sister, instead of increase she asked to lower her in a rank! Amazingly! No, really they are two of a kind …

Grumble of condemnation swept on crowd of maids of honor: "As! To exchange greatness of service at Thrones of their Knowledge for some backwoods! Not slykhano!"

- We think, however, what for these odd fellows is the place … Well, and it is time for us especially as someone waits and will not wait until We leave from here, - Knowledge smiled and quietly left the room, and after Them, rustling with folds of dresses, and all its numerous snow-white and elegant suite. And after them on tiptoe there were Animals.

The prince remained one, but for a while. Two fairies with a black-silvery stretcher for a body entered and got up in indecision at a bed, they were forbidden to apply an electroshock and how still to achieve delivery of a body by Prinze?

At this moment the silent rustle of a women's dress was heard and the room entered … Beautiful Fairy.

Her face was sad and pale, but not as earlier. It was not tear-stained, grown thin, rather it the grief was light and quiet.

She quietly approached Lily's bed and sat down on an edge. Then she kissed deceased on a forehead and quietly whispered something. And then embraced Prinze and put the head to him on the left shoulder. So they silently stayed several minutes. And then she quietly and gently whispered to Prinze on an ear:

- Hey, my Kind Prinze, is time for us … You hear? Oslenok already misses, houses everything is already ready to a festive dinner, children already gave you a gift … Wait will not wait …

But Prinze was silent.

Then the Fairy turned to Lily and addressed her:

- Release it, Poured! Your destinies, on trade of the Creator, were once weaved, and now both you, and at it have different ways … Release it and go with the world in prepared to you halls. Release, my one and only real girlfriend … Lily …

Cold hands of Lily were suddenly unclenched, and Prinze, at last, took away an unwinking gaze from the dead persons Lili and for the first time as if having regained consciousness from a dream, saw the person Fei:

- Darling you here … I … I … I ….

- More quietly, more quietly, - the Fairy whispered, putting a thin finger to his lips, - do not say anything … I know everything … Let's better go, and us wait for that for a long time.

The prince silently nodded. The fairy took him by hand and, having got up, moved to an exit from the room, having on the run made hardly noticeable sign to two fairies. Those, having nodded in reply, approached a bed died to execute all that is usually done with dead women.

But neither Kind Prinze, nor the Beautiful Fairy saw it any more, going to an exit from the bewitched Gold Hall to which they, to their supreme happiness, were never fated to return any more.

1.

On a plateau at the Gold Tower of Prinze and the Fairy already waited. There was a big balloon harnessed by the six of big white eagles. And at a sphere - having been built in a rank, there were tens of fairies of the highest ranks including representatives Ordena "STING". Among them - Triune Knowledge.

Fairies were in full rigging. Long silk dresses in which they were dressed, demonstrated approach of the world. Told about it also hairdresses on their heads, and the pearl threads interwoven into hair, and the jewelry decorating them fingers, necks, wrists …

At appearance of Prinze and Fairy invisible silver fanfares played, solemn music of the whole orchestra of flutes, string and drums began to sound. And all fairies started congratulating happy reunion of lovers. Everyone wished them good luck, strove to embrace and kiss happy spouses. Also the Knowledge did not stand aside. All three Knowledge in turn kissed both Prinze, and the Fairy.

- On behalf of all sisters of Community, We express you our greatest gratitude for that contribution to a victory over the forces of evil which you brought. Who knows what would become with our world without you? And for this reason, after all event, to us it is unclear and bitter from the fact that you leave Skies … Perhaps, you after all share our pleasure, pleasure of all Community in celebrations which are outlined today?

- Oh, your Knowledge, you are very kind and generous to us, - the Fairy elegantly politely answered, - but we so were tired of all event, so yearned on the house that at all desire we cannot remain. We are waited by the house, we are waited by children …

The prince kept silent. To participate in celebrations in only several hours after Lily's death it seemed to it madness top. But also to speak about it is too there was no wish - wounds in soul are still so fresh! He wanted only one - to leave home somewhat quicker and not to see any more anybody, and especially fairies, "STING" and their Knowledge combined. Not to see anybody, except the closest, most dear friends.

- … Well, we will not disturb you, my dear, - softly and gently the Second said. - The best medicine for the occurred storms is a rest of the family center and mutual matrimonial love. You deserved it and We release you. We hope, however, that you, my dear, nevertheless appear at our yard when wounds in your soul drag on finally. Our yard will lose a lot of things without your society! For now - go and have a rest. You, my dear, can start in your obligations for Service when you consider it necessary - you so, one may say, in the advance payment, for all life fulfilled the duty to Tselestiya. Go, and yes the Creator will be with you!

The triune Knowledge once again kissed both and gave a sign hands. Fairies parted, and the road to the balloon was open. And Animals already opened a door and displayed a ladder.

The sphere was quite spacious: a wattled basket of the size of the small room, with soft seats, the cylinder from red silk filled with the air which is artificially warmed up by spells a team from six big white-headed eagles ready to soar up just about up and to incur for itself a sphere.

The prince and the Fairy, holding hands, climbed a ladder and sat down in chairs. And Animals already lifted a ladder and unhooked an anchor. Eagles waved wide wings and the sphere directed in air space. Reins were held by the Puppy, and the Kitten got up at height regulator. The prince and the Fairy finally waved with hands to fairies. The gold Mountain together with an ominous Gold Tower in several moments forever disappeared from a look.

2.

Having remained one, the Fairy and Prinze did not utter words. Animals did not intrude upon their leisure and at them was full of affairs - it was hard to operate a sphere. All the time it was necessary to watch that eagles flew to the necessary party to warm up the cooling-down air when it was necessary to gain height, or, on the contrary, to cool it when it was necessary to fly lower.

Cool wind pleasantly refreshed persons Fei and Prinze, played them hair. The fairy kept Prinze's hands in the and, without coming off, looked at him. The prince it is thoughtful and pensive as it happened to him earlier, looked somewhere afar, at the line of the horizon, at the white clouds curling in the distance. It seemed, it again not here, it somewhere in other world … But it also filled heart of the Fairy with pleasure. Means, Prinze gradually recovers, gradually becomes former. The fairy was not upset by his detachment. No, she most of all also loved it in Prinze, maybe, just because itself was not such.

By them floated clouds, birds welcomed them the shouts, and they did not notice anything.

- What you so thought of, road? - at last, without having sustained, the Fairy asked.

- About what strange at us with you left history - it still does not go in at me at all, - Prinze answered with an echo. - We with you did one and wanted one, and there was something absolutely, absolutely another … Without thinking of it at all, I and you suddenly were forever entered in Tselestiya's History and even if we will strongly want, we will not be able to be former any more - provincial eccentric lovers. We are forever connected now with those events which we generated, and with those forces which we awakened to life …

For an instant the person Fei was saddened by an alarm shadow - Kind Prinze never delivered such speeches earlier and it frightened her. But she mastered itself and, having softly smiled, stroked Prinze's hair disheveled from wind.

- And, in my opinion, everything is good … - the Fairy forcedly cheerfully answered. - I believe that everything will be still, once we come back home, to our children and our small river and a lawn. You will go on the wood again and to talk to trees, animals and birds, to be on friendly terms with mermaids, and I … I you will like and to care for children, about the house and I will be how before to wait for you by a lunch and a dinner, and, probably, I will become angry again for the fact that you come all dirty and absolutely at the wrong time, and you will tell me new fairy tales which composed while you walked, and I will set them then to music and to sing them to kids for the night …

The prince, at last, tore off the look from clouds and the horizon and looked at the Fairy. As she was beautiful! The gentle kind smile, eyes radiating love, fluttering from wind golden hair …

- I trust in it too, my Beautiful Fairy, - Prinze whispered and embraced her.

Soon the sphere began to descend. Eagles reached the necessary point, and the Puppy unhooked reins, having released the birds who fairly worked for them. Eagles, having taken a detour before a sphere, at parting published loud klekot, and then departed back - to the native Rocky Mountains.

3.

And at this time Oslenok, having finished preparations for a dinner, walked children. They just made the homework - wrote the small composition "As I love mother and the father", learned the new unpretentious spell causing a fragrance of roses and also studied execution of one children's song on a lute.

However, practically all task was made by Milena - she, though the younger brother for the whole two years, all went to mother - same clever, vigorous and capable. The brother at it wrote off all in the end, all day only and doing that furtively ran from occupations to bathe in the small river, to catch on a backyard of butterflies, to gather full pockets of pine cones.

"For some reason at all fairies always was so how many I remember, - Oslenok from whom was not to hide the boy's tricks noticed about himself. - Girls were always born vigorous and capable and any more remarkable abilities, but boys nearly from the cradle showed - always remained such idlers and rakes absolutely not capable to study and was born them always less, than girls, usually - at one-two fairies on ten. Probably, with genes here something not so", - Oslenok drew about himself a conclusion, the next time observing from a window escape of the boy from the room for occupations.

"It is interesting that at the majority of insects - bees, wasps, bumblebees, ants - absolutely the same history - only female individuals are rather strong in everything".

Oslenok unexpectedly for himself understood that that without knowing made a big discovery and thought that it would be quite good to conduct the real research on this subject and to write the book.

"And to call it - "The treatise about some features of development of posterity of race of fairies" and to sign - the master of pedagogics Oslenok executed".

From this thought Oslenok became cheerful, and he pensively closed the glass eyes, having presented as this book what at it will be cover, a cover will look and as on the title page gold letters will write a name of the author on tasty smelling back.

"I will surely be engaged in this research as the hostess will return, then I will have more time" - he solved.

Now Oslenok, having put on, as usual, the old straw hat with wide obgryzanny fields and round starushach points a nose, walked kids by hands.

The sun already drooped, but was still hot. The gentle breeze from the river informed of a pleasant cool. Kids joyfully started running on a meadow, to play dogonyashka and a hide-and-seek. And Oslenok lay on a grass and read the book of fairy tales which he wrote down according to stories of the Prince, resembling estimating what of them can be peredelozhit poetically that then the Fairy wrote to them music. At the same time he for a second did not lose sight of children.

To it was evident again that in all games the six-year-old boy the four-year-old little sister won. In dogonyashka it without effort caught up with the brother, always found him in a hide-and-seek that to speak about more difficult games!

At the same time she did not hesitate to use unpretentious spells of search, run acceleration, and sometimes just straightened the small wings which the brother did not have, and it gave her additional benefits.

"After all in it something is, in it something is …" - Oslenok muttered and sighed. "It is necessary to get to the bottom of the reasons of this secret, to most that is called roots …"

At last, to children bothered to run and they approached Oslenk.

- Oslenok, well tell us the fairy tale, tell, well pozha - and - and - and - and - luysta! - also began to pull it a tail and a hat.

- And what fairy tale to tell you, precious mine? - tenderly Oslenok smiled - he was a big fan to tell fairy tales.

- Tell the fairy tale about mother and the father, pozha - and - and - and - luysta!!! - children unanimously began to squeak.

- I so on them skucha - and - and - and - yu-yu-yu-yu, - and the boy began to cry, smearing tears on pink cheeks.

And the girl with irritation slapped the brother in the head:

- Foo-at-at, the crybaby, always you cry, and I here miss not less you - and I do not pay! And mother always praises me for it! - also put out the tongue at the boy.

And the boy burst into tears even more and buried in a kind plush stomach of Oslenk. Oslenok tenderly patted him on the back and made "big eyes" to the girl:

- Well as it is not a shame to you to offend the brother! And well quickly regret it, you are future fairy! And what first precept of the fairy? We passed it only last week …

The girl right there got up on a rack "quietly" as at a lesson, and quickly answered:

- "The first precept of any fairy consists in creating good, to protect weak, to do the world finer, happier and more safe".

- The good fellow, "five", - Oslenok praised. - And why you do not carry out a precept in the life? For what we teach it that "five" to receive and forget?

The girl reddened. She approached the brother, patted him on the back. The brother nestled on the little sister and ceased to cry, and the little sister told:

- Be not afraid, the brother, I will protect you, I will care for you, nobody will offend you any more, I am the real fairy as mother …

At this time because of a cloud the small red sphere which began to decrease and increase quickly in volume seemed. It was possible to distinguish a wattled basket under it, and also the big-eared heads of the Kitten and Puppy over it.

- Children, look! - Oslenok at the top of the voice cried.

- Urr-r-r-ra!!! Mother with the father fly on sharike-e-e-e!!! - both kids began to squeak, jumping up for pleasure.

- And Animals with them! - Oslenok cried at the top of the voice, also jumping up for pleasure and throwing a hat up.

And the sphere meanwhile fell below and below still finally did not land.

Door of a basket opened, and from there were Prinze and the Fairy shining with happiness. Children with joyful squeal threw the arms round them a neck. The prince at once caught both and set up them on the shoulders. Children kissed it in both cheeks, and then it, having roamed them in air, returned them on the earth and they embraced mother's legs as they rostiky hardly reached to mother a stomach.

And Animals with tears in the eyes started embracing Oslenk at whom from their embraces even the hat flew from the head and points which inadvertently nearly crushed fell.

The pleasure was not a limit …

And then all together went home, to a hut. There, on a summer verandah the table with an entertainment was already laid. And all happy family took seat to feast.

Children did not want to leave parents, especially the folder in any way. He had to seat both of them to himself on legs, but they so span and fidgeted that was not allowed it to eat at all. And when they overturned a glass with pink juice to it on trousers … - here the Fairy did not sustain.