What did you decide? The twin smiled wryly.
There is no prettier one, the boy sighed, I will grow up, and Ill send your matchmakers to you. I will be a noble shipbuilder, like my father, so I will sail to her on Alatyr an island with a brave squad, and even Mara and Pryakhs will not stand before me.
She sleeps, your bride, answered Ull.
Ill go run away, wake up, put the spoon top.
In the coffin she sleeps, icy sleep, in the Seven. I do not have time to find a flower, and it will remain to sleep.
Nothing, Ull, eat it up, Ill go with you, and at the Spinner the eyes flashed with forged gold.
Where are you, son? Arpad interrupted.
Debt is red in payment, the boy answered in a clear voice, I told her that I would use her, I promised, and laughed.
Let the Wolf come, let him go Arpad, Rosa intervened.
And the mother went to equip her son on the way, the way, and Arpad was collected by Ulla. They found each of them on a leather sturdy bag, put there smoked meat, bread, flasks of water. Ulle had a dagger, and his father gave Wolf a knife in a wooden sheath and then hung it on his belt.
It seems that they have taken everything, they have not forgotten anything, said Rosa, lets sit on the track, everyone sat down, everyone thought about his own. Ull hung his head. and his curls hung almost to the floor, he scratched his chin in excitement and frowned his brows, mumbled something to himself.
They left the house, and the mother gave Wolf and Ullu a strong staff, kissed her son on the road, and two pilgrims went, and Rosa waved after them with a handkerchief until they were out of sight, smoothing their path unknown.
I saw the Flower, Wolf said to the giant, just growing on the mountain, where I broke my leg. You just need to find a path. Beautiful yet we have an island, Alatyr is much stricter, and there are no trees.
Its more beautiful here, but somehow more unlucky for us, Ull cringed.
And so it went, the mosquitoes already began to appear, and so it was a lot, and here the midge began to attack.
Somewhere here, the Wolf began to push his grass with his staff, trying to see the trail, I have not been here for two years, since my leg was injured. I was quite small, but I remember everything.
I will try, now muttered Ull, bending down to the ground.
He scared the boy, Wolf saw his companion almost become a wolf, sniffed, ducked to the ground, trying to smell and feel the trail, climbed a little to one side, walked past boulders, passed a bush and dwarf birch, went down past a small lake. The boy walked behind a tall young man with a long mane of light reddish hair who was searching for the saving Flower inquisitively. He gently stepped on his feet in soft boots, afraid to even bite a small stalk, pushing the naughty shrub with his staff, expecting that he would find what he was looking for. Then Volchok joined him, crawled nearby, and a miracle happened. The boy found a rare flower. A smile of joy blossomed on Wolfs face.
Found! Found! Found! and he spun and jumped around Ulla, finally stopped.
Take it, take it to Ela, and he held out a wonderful flower with his small hand.
No, fiancé, replied Ull, laughing, you will carry it yourself, and Ill go with you.
The boy turned red, his face became crimson, even more likely to be crimson than raspberry.
Do not blush, and the young man patted his several curls, you are not afraid of her alone here. Come on, she is waiting for us.
They walked together, side by side, big and small, carrying in their hands the greatest jewel, the Fern Flower. They walked to the mountain, were already close to the sad chambers. Near the door to the mountain stood a couple of warriors, and, oddly enough, a couple of dozen people were engaged in the most important things for themselves, and just waited for Arpad with Kate. They saw a pair of Seekers, and rushed to them, unable to wait and play indifference.
Found? Only this word was in the language of both, and they pronounced it.
Yes, briefly, but how much sense there was in this word, and mad joy was on the faces of Ulla and Wolf, Volchok brought a magic flower from the mountain.
Come on, we cant wait, and Arpad glanced at Katey.
They entered, but rather ran into the mountain, quickly going through the corridors, and exhaling, Arpad knocked.
Open, we are back.
The sender opened the door, and the Seven were already crowded with impatience.
Lets go, -and only said Seven, in their eyes, too, was burning with expectation.
The knocking of the staffs resounded hollowly in the stone corridors, and the light steps slid along the granite passages, no one was able to walk, and soon the procession entered the cell lined with granite sarcophagi. Alicia was lying in a stone coffin, and was not breathing, Leah was sitting next to her. Ull kissed her on the cheek, so icy. All stood near the Virgin in a semicircle, and the Two approached the Sleeping Beauty.Give it to you, said Ull Wolf, and whispered in his ear: bride.
Go, you found, do not hesitate.
It was evident that the boy was terribly worried, he blushed, but he gathered his strength and put a flower in her hands, folding her fingers so that the stem was in the girls palms. Then he bent, and kissed her hands, those that healed him, and so remained standing. Seven began to read hymns and lit incense, and Ull pulled out the double tune of Elicia and began to extract the most bellicose rhythms from the instrument.
It was getting warmer in the room, and Ull seemed, it only seemed that light flashed around Elis head and immediately went out, and he noticed that her lips were twitching, and she tried to remove her palms from the Wolf bowed toward them. The boy noticed this too, and let her hands out of hers, Elis eyes shook and she opened them. Leah cried out delightedly, immediately covering her mouth with her palms. Ull was right there next, kissing her sister on the cold cheek.
Hello Brother. Ive slept for a long time. Where am i She looked anxiously around the walls of the cave, across the wide-open coffins, she got up, and her brother picked her up and gently put her on the floor of the cave.
Hello, Wolf, she turned to the boy, the leg does not hurt anymore?
More, no, it doesnt hurt, the boy answered worriedly, looking at her with adoring eyes.
He found a flower, Ale, the young man remarked, now he, as your savior, has the right to ask you to be his wife at the appointed time.
Well, its good that I got a fiancé, its not for nothing that I hit the Buyan-iceland, Elisia laughed, and her laughter echoed, and everyone immediately became cold here.
Dont, sister, said Ull, bending down in a whisper, then you moisten.
Yes, I am not joking, brother, they all fear for six years before the tremor, at least one brave man was found, Ela reached for the belt purse and pulled out a gold ring with the image of the left swastika.
Come, my faithful rescuer, she turned to Wolf, and put a ring on his right hand, my word honestly was not scared now, and after four years, as you grow up, send your matchmakers. If you dont change your mind, Ella laughed.
But here the startled Seven intervened in matchmaking.
Hello to you, twice born, Flower generated, Flower resurrected. We are glad to see you on Buyan Island, even though you can be here one more day and one night.
They said everything to the girl, and the old men bowed to her in a belt as an equal. We looked strictly at Gemini, and there was no blood on their lips, and their fists clenched on their staffs so that their fingers turned white.
You see, Ulle, she said, grinning bitterly, and wiping away a tear with her left hand from her cheek, her lips curled as she prepared to cry, they are already driving me, but I havent done anything bad to them.
So think Wolf, do you need me like that? She turned to the boy.
Better you are not and never happen, the boy replied smoothly, who refuses his own?
He looked at all this and darkened his face to Ull, bowed to the ataman in his belt, and said:
Forgive me, Arpad, I will leave with my sister, I will settle on Alatyr, since she is expelled from Buyan Island. There is no place for us here, we will live on the Hidden Island. If you need me, look for me there, I will bow to earthly Mare to accept.
And you do not hold onto us evil, Gemini, be happy on Alatyr, said Arpad, bowing for all.
Seven were talking to each other in such a way that no one heard: Everything happened as it should, the Twins will return to Gods island, as it should be, and then trouble will come with them.
The Twins began to gather, and with them, and Leah, Arpad prepared a boat with four oarsmen, folded into it and gifts from youngsters. Send off few people, among them Arpad and family. The warriors dragged the boat into the open water, everyone began to say goodbye, the Twins waved their hands to them, and they wished good luck in return.
In four years I will come after you, Wolf cried.
How it will be, Al replied to him, laughing.
And he sailed, but earlier than promised.
Phlegrian fields
Gun woke up in his home, his mother and father slept in the next room, and here two of his brothers slept, in the other room his sisters rested. He got used to sleeping on a belt bed, on Buyan-island slept on a wooden couch covered with skins. Yesterday, only came the lodges with the grown-up sons of the leaders, and by the evening they dispersed to their villages. And before that there was a notable feast in honor of the new soldiers who had passed the teachings of the Seven, whose mentors in the military business were themselves thirty chosen soldiers, and Arpad, chieftain of the forces of Buyan Island.
All settled on the banks of the Ob, covered food, so that representatives of the Seven Tribes would strengthen their Union. Gun sat with his friends, Arius and Tal. Three girls, about fifteen years old, Sisters Aria and Tala and Gunas sister, Rada, came up here.
Hello brother, for six years you have matured. And is Ull with you? And she turned to Guna, looked around at all the feasts, as they tell about him, I dont see him.
I went to Alatyr Island, with my sister.
They say more about her than about her brother, added Malina, sister Aria, you do not know what to say about her. We are the same age, and the witch, they say, is cleaner than Pryakhs. She rushed, they say, to cure her brothers enormous deer, put a nettle shirt on him, and healed his icy heart she said so, and it was visible, and flushed with excitement.
Ice?? threw up her hands Rada.
Well, icy, icy. What are you so excited, glad? With a smile, looked at her, looked around with a sly look and elbow hit in the side of sister Tala, Zana.
Gun looked at Raspberry, and she liked him, the girl liked him, her hair was blond, the braid was long, beautiful, and her face was different on Ella her nose was crooked, her face was stretched, her lips were full, like all temporal rings on her head, and beads of multicolored stones on the neck. Malina also looked at Gun, smiled.
Well, brave knight, you take away your eyes from a maiden? Isnt that pretty? Or, too, to Elysia going to get married? So they say, is she married? Malina laughed, and Zana picked up the laughter.
The wolf is small and distant, Gung remarked, and Ullu helped to find the magic flower.
Yes, Ull, I suppose I found the flower myself, turned around with a wolf, found it, Rada said blushing, you are all brave heroes, were afraid to approach Ella, and the Wolf was not afraid, Arpadov was a son.
What you didnt want, exactly, said Gun, youd see Rada see how orcas would sail to her, say hello, how to the sea maiden, talk to her. Witch she is a witch.
Witch she might be, so how many of you have healed? Is she angry? You still say. That she is Ice Tsarevna. And brave, through the bull jumped. And it was you who brought her from the shelter Prykhs, Ull to save, and not she was cramming with you. After all, Ulla could have been brought to her brother.
Your truth, sister. And we are to blame. Seven were ordered to be brought, and we were brought, and Seven were kicked out without honor, answered Gun, with his head drooping.
Do not be sad, warrior. And the hair is already growing on the head, and not just the childrens strands. Will you send wreaths with me into the Ob River? Asked Malina, looking boldly into his eyes.
So then send your matchmakers to you? Gun smiled, getting up.
Really, I was frightened, a girl stood before him, and a girl laughed and laughed, I am a business girl, now, she pointed at Aria, ask your brother not to lie about it.
Maybe Arius has long wanted to marry you, he said with a smile and turned to his friend. Dreaming, Arius?
Long ago, the young warrior glanced at his sister, can you get married? The father gives a good dowry, and he raised the thumb of his right hand, and then stretching his arms to the side showed the size of wealth, In what!
Then its decided, said Gong, looking attentively at the girl, who blushed, when to send the matchmakers, Arius?
Sister Tala, Zana looked at these courtship with her hand over her mouth, so as not to laugh out loud.
It is necessary now to marry Aria, said Malina, after thinking, Why pull, or else everyone will disperse to the camp, cows graze. Arius, look, think. Zana is a beautiful girl from a good family. Right after all, Tal?
Of course, accepting the rules of the game, the young man agreed, you think Arius. And besides being beautiful, she also bakes good pies.
Now we will bow to the fathers mothers, and the matter is harmonious.
And I thought on Bojan, that the most difficult thing to jump over the bull, added Tal, and I will go to my father and mother, and yours, Gun, and your parents, Arius, will call. We need to solve everything today. Tomorrow is also a difficult day, a bear wedding.
Tal ran very well, only Ull overtook him, unless of course the young men ran seriously, so the young men and women who had played started not catching the quickest friend, sat down in a row and thought. The fact that parents will say approve or angry.
Malina, Im seriously ready to marry, Gun said quietly.
Who, the girl didnt understand.
On you, Light Malina Silovna, and ready to ask your hand from your fathers Strength and your mother Ora.
I will be a good wife, Gun, the girl said seriously this time.
Adults approached, not just adults, but the leaders of the tribes, walked sedately, slowly, waved mosquitoes away from the branches. Behind them, modestly smiling all over his face, went Tal, a prankster who was terribly pleased with his joke. The leaders with their wives, these were their parents, the parents of soldiers who had passed the tests of Buyan Island, and their sisters who had already become adults.