And from the sky fire flows, cruel as if attacked. At girls hair flash, they heart-rendingly shout:
- Mother! Mother rescue!
The poor faces dripping from them a teardrop, with hissing falling on a flame. And when, carnivorous red language licked the crying child in on a chubby cheek ... An inhuman cry and the opposite bursting blisters which singed gentle lines of the unfortunate girl. And this horror was shown from different hundreds of places. Here the roof falls and the running-away, barefoot, roaring for horror children get to fire. The crunch of stones is heard and the woman choking in a flame, spits out from itself the smoldering lungs. Even animals, are fried alive, the scared low of cows, the herd of horses which is desperately escaping from the fire, manes flare a torch, the horsewoman at whom the burned clothes were already scattered falls.
Jesus does not maintain and covers eyes with fists. How realistic image the Satan gives it, in one cinema of it you will not meet. Heat is felt really, and shouts, groans, began to smell fake too.
The little girl Lucifer who coolly stood see the fire, opened Christ's palms and hissed:
- Is not present, look ...
Jesus receded and a shiver in a voice asked:
- What for ad a nightmare?
Deva-Satana answered:
- It is the fire of Gomorrah. You remember, izlity to Sodom and Gomorrah of an eternal flame?
The boy receded, one and the dying girls buried to him in a knee, and whispered:
- Rescue!
On cheeks at the boy tears began to flow, the suntanned person turned pale and he moaned:
- No! I do not want, stop, it is so awful!
Deva-Satana persistently said:
- You agree that your Father, was not right, acting this way?
Jesus is overflowed with emotions, shouts, groans, crying of thousands of children dying in terrible torments, all this before eyes and dins in the ears. Insufferably, it is impossible to suffer. The crushed girl, and a blood stream because of a mouth, a look full of entreaty. The girl Lucifer suddenly is enough with a hand for the flaring roof, rejecting it. Three the semi-strangled children, with the skin singed and charred by places, jump out from there. Deva-Satana prompts to them, specifying on are light koridy:
- There will be to you a rescue and to recover your wounds!
Children go to the public, and their burns and wounds disappear. They again cheerful, healthy in elegant clothes ... Laugh ...
The Satan little girl smiles to Jesus and invites him:
- Help dying if in you though something remained human.
And the boy walks for the Deviless, without paying attention to burns. Here he tries to cast away a roof where mother with children is buried, the poor woman hysterically coughs from a caustic smoke, children shout, cry out - pain from carnivorous shchupalets of fire which is poured out from heaven, gradually makes the way to them. Jesus suddenly straightens out hands and is frightened looks at the palms. Together the callosities received on a hard work, scattered on lifelines, the whole mycelium a pimple of burns. The girl Lucifer having quickly bent blew to the boy on a palm. Zhivitelno breath cleaned a burn and took away pain, the devil little girl rejected blood and with entreaty addressed Christ:
- Help me the boy. In you there is great power of good and forgiveness!
Jesus rushed to the falling wall, but again could not hold it. Fiery strips singed a breast, a stomach and palms to the boy Messiah. Future savior with despair exclaimed:
- I am only a boy, I cannot prevent it!
The girl Lucifer insinuatingly said:
- Tell - the Father you is not right, and will find force can to the burning-down children!
Jesus with pain in a voice said:
- Well why I have to so to speak?
Devchonka-Satana surely answered:
- Because to rescue them, means to go against will, the Father who doomed them to painful death. And time to them life, means the Father not of the rights!
Jesus shook a teardrop from the burned cheek, and resolutely shook the head:
- No! I cannot tell that God is not right!
The girl Lucifer with sincere pain in a voice answered:
- Then all of them will die! I have no forces to rescue people from God's Anger!
And you can!
The flame singed the bare-legged little girl who is just fearlessly walking up and down on fire. Her golden hair began to smoke, and barefoot heels to become covered by a scattering of burns. In pupils of the beauty pain and intolerable melancholy developed.
- Help people Jesus ... Rescue innocent children! - The piece of fabric, on magnificent and strong hips of the warrior, lit up. Evil tongues jarred on golden and olive skin of fantastically beautiful woman. Already on hair sparks ran. Really, heavenly fire got into Mephistopheles's body, forcing to twitch, from intolerable anguish ...
And Jesus cried too, not to help nobody with forces. Heart ran around like a mad at the sight of terrible sufferings of the dying children, it was even a pity for the Devil. The girl Lucifer burned down in the eyes, her legendary beauty was closed by fragmentary, purulent ulcers of burns. Dynki of breasts suddenly singe, and in a trace behind them also the fried thoroughly meat from legs of the head of angelic opposition began to fall off.
- Rescue children Jesus ... For God's sake! - The little girl Satan last time croaked.
On the place of the fantastic maiden goddess there was only a charred skeleton which however, too later was scattered a moment in ashes.
Gradually groans and shouts in Gomorrah calmed down ... The image of execution of the impious city was gone. Jesus was kneeling and loudly sobbed. Left the Satan reddening withered in the eyes, strange, worthy a paradise garden of a plant were scattered in ashes. The boy continued to cry, the body shuddered from grief, and human heart, was slowed down, accelerated. And so passed, hour after an hour until at last and the Sun was behind the horizon.
Then the boy at last rose from knees and is silent, thoughtful - said:
- It is difficult to be God ... But without God in soul it is even more difficult!
Vision, tremendous realness disappeared. They again on Patriarchal ponds, in the light of pink beams of the dying Sun. Still very warmly and, it seemed did not pass time at all, and any of shadows not even became one inch longer.
Apparently, "cinema" made tremendous impression on all. To the first the question was asked by cheeful Korovyev:
- So means, the Gospel did not lie?
The boy prince and he answered Lucifer with arrangement:
- There is no direct lie in them. There are only half-words!
Voland looked at the prince and with grief in a voice said:
- Two devils, on one universe it already too ...
Prinze-Lucifer with a smile explained:
- In this world the Satan one - you ... I only reproduced this light ...
And Mephistopheles pointed to Bulgakov's girl. - And it is your real Father Creator, can consider him the creator!
- Charm! - Provizzhal Begemot. - I thought that I am a great and unique personality who serves the mightiest Boss in the Universe ... And it appeared, I no more, than the literary character.
Voland severely looked at a cat, that in feigned fear shrank. Then messir and the master darkness judiciously said:
- Yes, you opened the severe truth for me, very severe!
Prinze-Lucifer seriously and already without smile, noticed:
- And the truth always severe ... - And here again smiled and already joyfully noticed. - But nobody cancelled the right for sacred lie ... We will erase our emergence from your memory, and you will be able to enjoy and revel in the power, without thinking who created you and what insignificant little man had the nerve to think up to himself!
Here already and Berlioz gave a vote. His question was the most natural:
- And me the head by tram will not be cut off?
The fresh youthful face of the prince got sad expression:
- Alas, Voland predicted it, and it is impossible to undermine the authority Messira! - The Lucifer replaced looks with more joyful. - But if you do not want to disappear in a non-existence, then in hell to you there will be a town, you are a personality very interesting and extraordinary!
Kot blonde in boots agreed:
- Of course, against stupid scoops is directly Vladimir Ilyich from MASSALITA!
Korovyev, winking at light, through broken a penny sang:
- Scoops, scoops, we will not give you the country! Scoops, scoops - we declare to you war!
Prinze-Lucifer winked at the demon in the broken surroundings and at parting took off a hat with a feather, having gallantly taken leave. Voland repeated this sign of friendly parting, then Patriarshikh Prudov Avenue disappeared. Prinze-Lucifer, a Puss in Boots and the girl Bulgakov appeared in the comic ship with transparent walls. Around sparkled, delightful stars and extraordinary planet forms. Very beautiful landscape.
The Lucifer, seeing as Bulgakov was surprised, watching the planet in the form of the gold samovar topped with a cock crest and wings of a butterfly with the image of mobile drawing indulgently explained:
- It is hell ... In it I like to create beautiful the planet in surrealism, but when here Picasso and Salvador Dalí come, it will be even better!
Bulgakov was unexpectedly wrinkled and blurted out:
- Picasso? Yes my daughter better it draws!
The prince changed in reply the shape. This time there was already, something from creations of avant-gardism too. A six-sided prism with feelers of a squid, only instead of suckers butonchik of flowers. And on it several eye is represented. fancifully turned out and sparkling. And still pictures which delirious will not come in dream to the person also all in the bright, blinking a light show light.
The Lucifer, in new shape, asked Bulgakov:
- Unless it is not tremendous? Refusal of the ordinary, and bothered human body?
Bulgakov politely answered:
- On the it is fine, but ... My weak human mind is simply shocked!
The Lucifer accepted shape of the young man, only this time in a garrison cap in an asterisk and a spotty undershirt again. Plus with a red tie and holding a horn in hand. Now it did not look search any more. The ringing voice said:
- You want to become the hero?