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Air games with a flying folk did not deviate me from the main course, which always led me to the one that was destined for me. After several days, I felt that she was very close. I was drawn to this settlement of people in the middle of the forest. But I could not find my beloved among the trees surrounding the village. In the village itself there were only people, and one of the girls for some reason was especially interesting for me. This unnatural craving for a human being should be dealt with. But how? At least I could try to copy one of the small human beings running around the village, my weight allowed me to do this. The only difficulty was the clothes, but similar clothes were hanging on the ropes near the houses, and it was not difficult to get them.

So imperceptibly another child appeared in the village, running with the other kids. I passionately wanted to be next to the girl I liked, I wanted to quietly touch her. Everything turned out as I intended. Running along her I stopped and touched her hand at the moment when she turned away. It seems that lightning has slipped between us, we both startled. I immediately ran away, and she frantically turned her head in different directions, trying to understand what happened.

It was she, my betrothed! She, like me, only pretended to be a person. But it was too early to meet her. We were too different, even in size. I should have approached her as an equal, and not as a small child. I must run before she finds me. The latter is quite probable – I immediately noted her powerful mental field, which means, respectively, no less ability to search for thoughts. Drowning out all my thoughts, I took off into the air. A flock of small folk immediately surrounded me and began to twitter:

“Fly! Fly! To the South! South! Winter will come soon, it will be cold and uncomfortable here!”

And we flew.

“I want to go there where good people live and where there are a lot of trees,” I said.

“We know such a place! We know! There are nice people, funny, always dancing! And there are a lot of trees! And it’s hot there, even in winter!”

“And I don’t want any scientists studying trees!”

“Do not worry, only good people live there!”

Forests flashed beneath us, then they were replaced by solid grasses. Then blue ribbons of rivers appeared. Then was the endless blue of the sea, over which we flew during day and night. And down below, several times I saw the ships on which people sailed across the sea. Then there were gray sands and mountains, and finally, the green square of the forest where we landed.

On the shore of the lake, I released my roots. The ground was warm and tasty, and a stream of life-giving moisture rose from the depths. I completely surrendered to the ecstasy of food absorption and growth. Everything else has disappeared from my perception for many months of life in the form of a simple tree.

Bess

The autumn time has come. Everybody was busy with harvesting vegetables for the winter. Men were digging potatoes, carrying huge pumpkins, zucchini, cabbage, carrots. Women carried baskets of mushrooms from the forest. Late apples were picked. With the first frosts, it will be possible to collect viburnum and ashberry.

I worked with everyone, and at night I tried to reach out with my thoughts to those thinking ones in the nearest forests that were unknown to me. Lately, it seemed to me all the time that someone was carefully looking at me. But not with my eyes, but somehow differently, as if I see him somewhere nearby: in a flock of kids playing on the street, in the autumn wind blowing along the street, in the first drops of autumn rain… Every day this feeling became stronger, and once someone touched my hand. This touch was thunderous throughout my body. For a moment I lost myself, stopped seeing and hearing. Moment – and it’s over. I looked around. Everything was as usual, no one noticed anything. The sun was going over the edge of the forest, and only the belated kid was running around the corner to his mother. But I knew that it happened! The main event of my life has happened! But how? What? Who? I didn’t understand anything.

“Over time, you will understand! It really was a sign for you!” I heard the calm voice of Radogast in my head. “He will come to you when he is ready! In the meantime, do not get distracted, my daughter, you have a lot to do. Which thinking ones do you feel near the village?”

“You know, recently there were a lot of them in the clear sky above our heads. It seemed to me that they were twittering like birds, but about what – I just cannot understand. And now there are none.”

“Ah … little folk,” replied Radogast, “it could only be them. They are really here, and not quite here. Not everyone can see them. Only one thing I’m afraid of is that there is no use of them. This little folk is very unpredictable. And who else do you feel?”

“Yes, I feel all kinds of animals, among them there is still someone, it seems, is very large, with shaggy thoughts, I cannot say more precisely. It seems to me that his appearance is a match, I imagine him big and shaggy.”

“Forest man. He is a loner, he is unlikely to contact you.”

“Can there be thinking ones underground?”

“I feel distant and very sharp thoughts of others that come from somewhere below,” I replied. – “It’s as if someone lives deep down too.”

“Wow, what did you feel!” answered Radogast. “I don’t even know whether we should contact them. These are our enemies, the enemies of all mankind, but they are also enemies to aliens. Yes, perhaps, in the fight against aliens, they can help with their voices. But then … do not expect mercy from them! They don’t need us either!”

“Who are they?”

“The ancient masters of the Earth, gone underground during the disaster. Then the forests burned, and the earth melted and flowed in lava flows. And then solid ice covered the Earth for millennia. Now they would like to come to the surface, but they are afraid of us – people. And not without a reason! Human has an inborn aversion even to the appearance of these creatures. I see that their thoughts prick you like needles. Alas, people are incompatible with them. They can help, but only for their own benefit. Try, contact them – it won’t be any worse! Do not even think about asking them for something! If they need anything, they will ask themselves!”

After a couple of days, I still managed to contact them. The sizzling guest crawled right into my thoughts – slippery, rummaging around … I accepted him and showed him all our plans. He returned a week later and hissed:

“We agree.”

“How many of you?”

“They know! And you don’t need to know that!”

I was glad when he disappeared from my thoughts.

Meanwhile, real winter has come. Time to sour cabbage and play snowballs. Terra and I first saw skiing and ice skating. We had nothing like this on a farm in childhood. Soon I mastered both of these devices. But Terra didn’t want to. In general, lately she has somehow become sad, and her character deteriorated right at once. Every now and then her demanding voice was heard:

“Fedka – there! Fedka – here! Bring that! I want this!”

Fedka ran like crazy. And I looked and was surprised. I never knew that my sister has such habits. And no one stopped her, neither the lathered Fedka, nor Rin. And granddad – so he also smiled!

This winter, I became very close with Rin. He was the one who taught me to ski and skate. He and I took a long ski trip to that shaggy one. I warned Rin in advance where we were going so that he would not be scared. And not in vain! The view of the forest monster was really creepy! But the thoughts were calm. I heard them like this:

“Well, why are you coming to me?”

I tried to explain our problems to him, but he closed his thoughts and quietly disappeared behind the trees. As Radogast warned, I did not succeed with him.

A couple of months passed, and finally something wonderful happened – a quiet, gentle voice found me:

“Good business, girl! We are all with you!”

“Who are you and how many are you?”

“There are three hundred and seventy-seven of us, not counting the children.” We are near you, but not quite here. And our village is called Kitezh grad. And there are seventy-seven of such secret settlements on the Earth. We will let everyone know the news, and all of them will support you on the day of voting!”

Rin

All the same, what scoffers are girls in our village! While we were children, it was so good to play together. And then as if something had happened to them – and you won’t go outside without hearing teasers from your former friends. You can’t just approach them, everyone has become just impregnable. When Bess has come to us, my life changed for the better. Together with her, I went to Mute and listened to the amazing stories through her. And once, going out into the street, I heard another teaser, sung in a sweet girlish voice:

Rinchik walked with Bess,

Rinchik kissed with Bess!

And then I thought – why not, because I like Bess. And she treats me completely differently from the rest of the guys in the village, and by age we are about the same. And the girls will stop teasing me if Bess and I have everything for real. One evening I went to Bess and laid out to her all my boyish thoughts. She laughed.

“Nothing will come of it! Do you even know how to check whether a girl suits you or not?”

“No, I don’t know, and how?”

“Very simple. Take my hand and say what you feel.”

I took Bess’s hand. It was very cold.

“Are you cold?”

“No,” said Bess, “I just don’t want to work as a stove.”

“I cannot do that. My hands are always warm.”

“Don’t get distracted,” Bess reminded, “tell me what you feel now?”

“Nothing special … I feel your chilling hands … And what should I feel?”

“If I were your girlfriend, you would definitely feel something.”

“My girlfriends are not here, they all laugh at me! They say that I’m still small.”

“If you just need to prove something to your friends, you can stay here for the night. I usually don’t sleep in bed. From childhood, I got used to go out of the house for a night and sleep somewhere in the thicket of the forest. No matter how much they scolded me, they never taught me to sleep humanly.

“Bess, you are different,” I said.

“Of course,” Bess answered me, “the same thing Mute says, he also says that my beloved will be different either, and that he will come soon.” With these words, Bess stood up and quietly slipped into the darkness. I was left alone in her room. Woke up in the morning, Bess, humming, changed clothes. Then we left the room together, frightening Fedka. Now the whole village will know that I was with Bess. Fedka – he doesn’t know how to keep secrets.

After breakfast, we walked with linked arms to the house of the Mute. The girls looked at us from all windows, flattened noses behind the glasses were visible everywhere, but there was not a single child on the street. I was proud of myself! Then no one dared to say that I was still too young!

That time we asked the Mute to tell us what interesting have happened on Earth over the past thousand years and how it turned out that all power was in the hands of aliens.

“Call him Radogast,” Bess corrected me and began retelling the history of our planet.

“As you know, for the first 300 years after the end of the world the Emperors of Khem country ruled on Earth, which is far to the East of us. And the Emperor had a wise adviser from aliens – Gilk the Wise. He was not only wise, but also almost immortal. And until now, he would probably be alive; still everything is done according to his advice. But people of the country on the far Western continent did not like this adviser; they did not want to admit the results of the universal vote and decided to overthrow the rule of aliens. Moreover, they had an undeniable force in the form of a rocket with a neutron bomb that could wipe out an entire continent. So they would have canceled the alien rule, because aliens are not allowed to kill the original inhabitants of Earth, but there happened a terrible eruption of a volcano on that Western continent. And this eruption was so powerful that the whole mainland became deserted. Well, we have had difficult years too. The first year was of heat and fires, then three years of frigid weather. Then the aliens took care and fed everyone with concentrates, warmed us up with their eternal generators, so that they deserved great gratitude from the entire surviving population of Earth!

Since then people started talking that aliens are arguably able to do everything, aliens are the main thing for us … And aliens have started their unknown activities. Under the pretext of teaching “illiterate” earthlings alien schools appeared … Those who managed to graduate and successfully pass the exams are called sapiens since then and those who failed are called homos. And the rest, uneducated are simply savages. By the way, these sapiens, even though they have abilities, knowledge, and telepathy have lost a lot. They are pathetically obedient; they can neither fight nor swear. So when the aliens decided to shoot emovideofilms about life on the “wild planet Earth”, they had to organize fighting units from the homos. Well, they didn’t have to persuade our people, they would only be excited to fight. But sapiens are also necessary: for work in factories, for space flights … So every month they fly around the Earth on their saucers and listen to thoughts. If anyone “thinks out loud”, they would grab him right away and send to the sapiens school or into the “house of brilliant children” for breeding.”

Gilk the Wise

Everything was fine, but something tormented me on the verge of my understanding. I was always wary of my superpowers, because they were denied by orthodox science. I didn’t want anyone to know that I put faith in my dreams. They were disturbing. For some reason, I had mares of those muffs who recently lost their daughter on an unknown planet … What would it mean? I requested a detailed report of this incident. What was bothering me here?! Rereading the report for the tenth time, I finally drew my attention to the description of a sprout of the unknown fauna from the alien planet. The report said that it was given to scientists for research, but then not a word of its outcomes. I had to call these scientists and shout at them to make them confess. They are sapiens, in fact, should have immediately informed that the sample had disappeared.

“How could it disappear?”

“It couldn’t dig itself out! Probably somebody has done that, and now it’s gone…”

The last thread to pull was those two simps, I wondered if they knew something. I found out that they are in the camp for war actors. I had to go myself, since I no longer relied on sapiens. I revealed that both were placed in a medical isolator. As expected, these simps just attracted trouble. She tried to commit suicide when a local guy held her. He rushed at this guy with his fists and of course got a concussion. I will have to give an order to guard these losers for a while, I still may need them. Meanwhile I took care of the man, Peter. I easily got myself into his consciousness, and then even deeper. What I discovered alarmed me in earnest. The creature that they brought from Dark turned out to be rational one, and not just rational, yet very sensible, even able to control the actions of people. From the subconscious of Peter I pulled everything! It narrated how he carried the sprout to the ship, as if of his own free will. And how they were saved in space, when they both tried to die, and how at night in a dream Peter brought the sprout from the laboratory and hid it in a bag, and how he and his wife planted a sprout near the house and lost it the next day. Most importantly, I received from Peter the imprint of the thoughts of this unknown creature. The imprint is clearly inhuman, completely in a different range, where the trees think.