It was the last lesson, Labyrinth. Lets go there, their mentor replied.
Well done, Ull, friends shouted to him, we have passed!
Arpad quietly whispered in Kateys ear: This is the purpose of the tests and teachings, what would they feel all together, that it was WE who passed, and not I passed. Katey imperceptibly nodded to the ataman, lightened up.
And then, after the passage of Ulm the Labyrinth, something bitter happened. Ull completely lost his mind, spoke to everyone only in an imperative tone, did not recognize anyone, and when they tried to attack him in order to instruct Katey and Pal, trained fighters, the guy scattered both of them. Four tried to approach him, he was able to incapacitate even four. Ulla, like a bear, lured Gong into an ambush, the guys threw a fishing net at him, his hands fell into mesh cells, and his left leg too, and they pulled the earth out from under the enchanted bogatyr, and he poked his face into the ground, rolling his curls in the mud, he roared, straining his arms and legs, but the rescuers had come to a halt and had already pulled off the ropes and leather straps, so they pulled them to the guys torso.
What is the matter with you, boy, Arpad stumbled along the cheek of a madman, Remember, our friend, our hope, repeated the voivode, crouching next to the fallen man, what can we do with you?
About sister, witch, we forgot, mentor. We will send her a message if she does not help, and I dont know what to do, let Seven decide then.
Gun, carry the bark and wrote, Knut, Tal, Arius and Sirac will sail for Elicia, gifts, carry all that we, the mammoths have a tooth, jade bowls, all for Pryakhs and for Mara. And you Gong drive, youre his friend, and youre the most talkative of us. But be careful, take care of Mary, and if the tales of Ella are at least half true, then keep your mouth shut and pity for pity, because her brother fell ill. But who knows what Pryhahs did to her, and Arpad I grabbed my head with my hands, I will sail out to send the youngsters, and he jumped off the stone, but Katey and Tal kept him.
Ataman, it is impossible, you made a vow, The island will not leave without the order of the Seven.
The pressure of the mentor weakened, and he no longer burst from the hands of his warriors, only took a breath, and everything looked and looked intently at Ulla, and straightened the belt with a dagger, then laid his thumbs over the belt.
Okay, Gun, he sighed again, although this sigh was more like a whales exhalation, you can handle it. Lets bark here.
Arpad began to write:
Mare from Arpad bow and hello.
Please send Ella to us on Buyan Island,
With Ulls bad, he himself is not his own, became obsessed,
will not recognize anyone. On her one hope that his
cure
Here, take the message, and he took the ring, smeared with soot, and put a seal on the bottom of the inscription. Gun took this message, put the letter in a leather bag on its side, and the detachment followed the boat, which stood on the shore near the pier. When the gang came to shore, Arpad went to the boys, and hugged everyone on the road.
One hope for you, and he smiled faintly, Ilios is a witness, there has never been such a thing here. Do not try to drown on the way, we are waiting for you from the Virgin Island here. Take a couple of jails just in case, and Pal put two long spears in a boat. In the meantime, the young men dragged the raid out by boat.
Wait for us in four days! Gung shouted, jumping into the boat to be friends.
Come on, and stood up at the steering oar.
The oars struck to the beat, ripping up the water surface of the Frozen Sea. It was calm, as if the weather had conjured up, and the rowers tirelessly quickly worked with oars, and the mountain and the eternal mists of Alatyr Island seemed to appear. The pitching was small, and Gung noticed that Sirac was tired, replaced him on the bank, and began to row together with Tal. It did not remain long, the pibrya line appeared, and slow waves crashed against coastal stones, raising heaps of spray. There was another paddle, and the boat passed over the pebbles, and the youths jumped out of the boat, kneeling in the water, but their leather pants did not allow water to penetrate and wet the heated bodies, but they felt the cold of the sea right away, and grabbed the boat by the edges. The feet of the youngsters in their boots slid over the stones under water, the pupils breathed loudly, and at the cry: And once! with a jerk, they dragged her to the shore, and carried her about a dozen more steps, so that the waves would not damage the ship.
Whats next, Gun, he asked, like a senior, Sirak, a forbidden island, men cannot go to their abode. Visit Alatyr? No one would believe.
Well, the mountain can be seen from here, now we will connect two forts, and we tie our jacket to them, then they will notice.
Not bad, Arius praised, take a spare belt from me, and handed it to his companion.
Gong leaned over to the boat, took out his spears, put them on the stones, leveled, his friends supported the boiscels while he tied them with a belt, slipped the belt in the buckle and tightened it, and then wrapped the spears tightly, and got a five-meter yarn, and tied his jacket with a rope, and the sleeves of his jacket, too, and hoisted his improvised banner over himself, Arius stood next to him, supporting the flag on the left, Tal stood on the other side, and did not believe his eyes, the wind arched the fur so that Guna turned out of the sleeves, fur collar and wide floor of Gunas garb GRIFONA.
Griffin is coming
The younger pupil emerged from the cave, opening the door and the canopy, it was colder and more uncomfortable outside than the warm hearth, but she had to go to the spring and get some water. The girl straightened the hood on her head, removed the braid under her fur coat, and took the leather buckets and went to the stream. She looked around, it seemed to her that in the distance, on the shore, someone was there, and looked closely, and saw on the pole next to the figures of people, a banner of signs. Griffins banner, the girls hands opened up by themselves, and the buckets hit the stones deafly, and she promptly opened the door of the aisle, and ran along the corridor, but did not make a sound Marys lessons affected, and ran into the upper room, gave a bow to her elder, touching the palm the right hand of the floor finally said softly:
The griffin is here. -What are you, Uta, spoke quietly, but threateningly Mara, Did Uryok Pryakh hear a lot for the night? Tomorrow again you will go around the island traps, and yet she got up from the seat.
Come on, show.
And the two of them passed through the corridor of the monastery, and went outside, toward the bright sun from the dim light of the upper room. Uta showed her hand where she saw the banner, Mara turned there, and saw what was expected.
They went girl, lets see who Lada brought here.
And they went over stones, somewhere covered with low grass, and small tongues of the earth, where the grass grew thicker. Mara, in her excitement, took off her hood, her legs buckled in her lap, she was afraid not to hold out and scream, but Uta distracted her, and she didnt want to show her horror, and was afraid to see what she had to do. They approached five young boys, one of whom was holding an improvised banner in his hands, while he himself was without a jacket in the wind.
Hello to you, young sailors, -He looked at clothes and daggers, and said differently:
Will you be healthy, the youths of the chosen army, that you will seek on a hidden island?
We came from Arpad, and Guns name is us, the young man pointed to himself, and put the flag on the ground, and put on his jacket, This is Arius, he pointed to the boy on the right, this is Sirac, showed one more, but it is Knut and Tal, and he pointed to the latter, and they also bowed to the waist belt.
My name is Mara, and the witch noticed how the youngsters started, and Uta, said the younger one who blushed under the looks of the guys.
What are you trying to do for the cause, or are you from the business, good fellows, she began to say in High syllable.
And you let go with us the Maiden the light of the glorious Elisha, so that she healed her brother Ulla, the brave warrior, and the whole squad of mighty Alatyr is asked for the islands island is wonderful. And this, and he pointed to the gifts, and to the wonderful tooth indrik gifts to you from the Seven and Arpad and our entire squad glorious. And a letter from Arpad, and I gave a letter from a leather bag.
What are you saying? Mara was at once taken aback and switched to ordinary speech.
Not recognizes anyone, our daredevil, as if Geese-swans had already taken him to the Kingdom of Heaven.
It is clear that you will transfer the boat to the hut, and wait there, and she indicated where to go, the good is that the dwelling was not far, in fifty steps.
The youths bowed, and putting the prison in the boat, taking the boat on its shoulders carried it to the hut. We got there, put the ship upside down to dry out of the sea water, and went into the house to warm up. The windows, covered with fish-tanned leather, let in a little light, but more than oil lamps, but Gong took one out, lit it, and put a bronze mirror behind the stove, so the house became light. Gun and Arius put bags of food on the benches, and began to get a cheb, dried fish, and Sirac set up blackened glossy bowls, Tal poured kvass from a flask on wooden buckets. When everything was ready, the five brave men sat around the table, removing the hoods of their jackets. Everyone finally ate, bread and fish after hard work good food. Gong stood up and proclaimed:
Ghans and Manns gathered here to save Ull, who helped us more than once, and saved someone from death. Good luck! For our luck!
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Mara, meanwhile, with Uta returned to the monastery, and sat in a chair in extreme excitement. In total, the seven witches were sitting next to each other, and one of them was Mara, and they were twirling woolen threads. They looked at each other, and were afraid to start a conversation first, only the majority of threads began to turn out uneven. Shana sat next to the eldest and sighed loudly, and Irma suddenly began to cough, sometimes giving Mara expressive glances, and finally she said:
I gotta go. And then look, now Pieces will send a novice, Elya could feel something.
She saw Ella very rarely, several times a year. Strains were not allowed to see ordinary people. You still have to go, even though you sit all day.
Then a novice, Lyubava, came running from Pryakhs, and screamed from the doorway:
Elicia is angry, Mara, demands you to her. I have never seen her like this, she is always smiling, but she smiles beautifully, and then her lips are in a string, she holds her braid, speaks deafly, unfamiliarly.
All the Seven looked at each other, Irma grinned, but did not say a word.
As you said, said Shana.
We have to go, just call, the witch sneered, and you stay here, warm up, Lyubava.
She passed through the upper room, walked to the secret door, opened it, went out and walked through a tunnel in the mountain, rising higher. In her hand she had a torch that illuminated the path in the pitch darkness of the cave, and the reflections of stalactites hanging from above reflected the light of the torch, making the path beautiful and unique. The mountain crystals glowed with colored lights. Despite the summer, the mountain kept the winter cold, so she walked in a fur coat. So she approached the door, covered with bronze, the door hidden between the stalactites glittering in the light of fire, so that reflections from them flashed the eyes of the seeker, white, red and golden lights, and he simply would never have seen this secret door. She passed between them, and knocked three times, and she was opened. Near the door stood a novice, and in chairs with high backs sat three and one, Pryha and Elicia. All were dressed in strict knitted linen dark gray dresses, the elderly wore kerchiefs covering their hair, and only the temporal rings on the temples were visible, Ale was bare-headed, on her forehead was gold tick, on the temples four gold temporal rings with each glittered On the side, on the neck of the necklace, and on the shoulder over the dress a gold bracelet in the form of a double helix, she also wore earrings. Her longest blond hair did not darken at all from the age, and were tied into one braid with complex weaving. She looked with strict eyes at Mara.
Hello to you, Dyes and Elisha to you, and she bowed to them in a belt.
I came to you with a request from Arpad ataman Buyan the island. The trouble with Ull, Elysias brother, fell ill, he does not recognize anyone. So he asks the chieftain to come to the island of Ella to cure his brother, the embassy sent, five youths. Here is a letter from Arpad, and the witch gave Ella a letter.
Mara looked at Elicia and did not recognize that she was the face of an angry girl, but then jumped up, eyebrows with a house, her face turned pale, approached her, but rather ran up and took the letter without reading. She looked into the letter, her face turned gray, even the freckles were gone, her mouth twisted, she was about to cry, but she restrained herself, breathed out only:
After two days on the third I will be ready, let him wait for the squad. Thank you for coming right away, Mara. How I felt that everything was amiss. And I have to get ready.
Wait, one of Straight said to her, I have to ask, I will guess.
Marys face tightened, now the sorceress will take the bones, with special, sacred letters on the faces, and there will be a Snake, or a Snake- Inquiries, because the future and the past are none other than him, for he himself and Time is. The sorceress withdrew, took out a carved oak casket, and took out of it plates of bone with signs carved on them, put the bones in a tall vessel, and began to shake it, addressing the gods, Ilios and Leto, as well as Kronos the Serpent, or Scarapea, that would reveal the secret.
Come on, Spinne turned to Ale, you will become a guess, its time. Shake the bones, turn the mind to the gods, ask what you think, and ask for the answer, and thinking take out the three bones with your right hand, not looking into the jar. Get down, Pryha finished dumbly.
Ella paled a little, thought about something, so that her eyes also became lifeless. Then she took a wooden vessel, shook it several times, stood for a while, pondering thoughtfully went through a second concentrating and finally, took out three bones with signs, and in spite of them, gave Pryam. Those surrounding the message of the deity, watched for a long time, muttered something, finally, spoke the word:
Brother mind lost
And the heart became icy
What would become the same again
The heart needs to be near only the native
You must not go to the maiden, but you need to, have finished Unnamed.