Читать книгу The Ghosts of Mandrake. Fantasy - Svetlana Mirrai - Страница 2

Bright, sunny light filled a small room in which, as usual, I was sitting at my desk and drinking a cappuccino recently brewed in a coffee machine.

A routine for today was slowly emerging in my head. The main point was my negotiations with the book publishing house «Eksmo» and for this I prepared questions, of course, in advance.

My son ran into the room out of breath, he was already ten years old this year, he was becoming an adult faster than I thought and was no longer a toddler with a child’s toy in his hands.

– Mom, are you a good writer?

– I write my son correctly, – I replied, not understanding at all what our conversation was tending to.

– And write some very interesting and unusual story about a palace with servants and some fairy-tale characters.

– You don’t like fairy tales, and you once told me that you grew out of them.

– That’s how I grew up. But I just wanted something unusual. So that the characters are fabulous. Such as no one has yet come up with. And you, Mom, take it and come up with it! And yet! Let there be evil and good in the fairy tale. Some evil forces. Maybe even a sorcerer. Ok?

– All right, son.

– And also love and kindness, so that at the very end of the book it wins.

– You’ve given me a difficult task. So that the characters are new and unknown to anyone…

– Promise, Mommy? Volodya asked hopefully.

«Okay, son, I’ll try,» I said, puzzled.

– Well, then I’m waiting for your new book, Mommy, – said the son with a satisfied smile on his face.

– Agreed. You will be the first to read it!