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Prologue
The woman in white
ОглавлениеTwo girls were playing in the backyard. One had fiery red hair and was arranging toy figures on a set of scales made from a wooden fence plank. The other girl, with expressive big eyes, was playing with a small jug.
“Tell me, what do you want to be when you grow up?” said the Red-haired girl.
“I don’t know yet…”
“I want to be a shopkeeper,” said the Red-haired girl, placing a child’s sand shoe on one side of the scales.
“I don’t know yet…,” said the other girl.
“What do you have in your jugs?” asked the Red-haired girl.
“It’s water. Did you know that in the future, there will be very little water, so you have to stock up…” said the big-eyed girl.
“Impossible!” said the Red-haired girl, surprised.
“But what will happen in the future?”
“I know that people will be led by a woman in white.”
“In white?”
“How interesting…”
The girls spoke, their voices getting quieter, like in fog…