Читать книгу Star Angels. The New World - Viktor Khorunzhy - Страница 5

Having got cozy on their comfy beds, the sisters were not going to sleep so far.

Although they both knew they would have to get on their feet early the next day, the slumber hadn’t even come close to the young travellers. Alice tucked her headset into her ears; she was listening to local music.

Katy was rummaging in her backpack, getting ready for tomorrow guided tour. Once again the girl laid her hands on the Book with hieroglyphs. The rare folio was magnetizing Katy. Having opened it, the girl started examining the swan-necks of unknown symbols, seeming so mysterious.

“Are you awake?” Michael peeped into their room.

“Yeah,” the girls chorused. Alice had taken her headset out.

“Is that the Book you’ve been talking about?” father came up to Katy, having noticed the folio lying open on her knees. “Are you trying to read it?”

“Are you mocking me?” Katy grumbled. “There’s nothing but hieroglyphs. With absolutely no translation, would you believe? I’ve tried searching some of the symbols and had even succeeded in translating some, but what’s the point? There are thousands of them… I’d need a hundred years to decrypt it…”

“Well why ever?” Michael retorted, taking the Book. “It’s quite readable. When you know the language.”

Both girls broke into a laugh: the very thought seemed amusing to them. But Michael was taking his time with the Book, turning page by page.

“We could ask the hotel interpreter,” Katy suggested. “Perhaps he could help us find some Ancient Egyptian expert.”

“The very man is standing right in front of you,” Michael uttered suddenly, beaming.

The girls glared him in disbelief.

“Dad, are you kidding?”

“When in the world have you had a chance to learn it?”

Michael sat down on Katy’s bed.

“Well, I haven’t always been a cop,” he told cagily. “I used to do military service… at a certain organization where Ancient Egyptian language was… so to say, in particular favour.”

“Is that so?!” Katy was wide-eyed. “Could you read it to us? Like right now?”

“Why wait?” Michael sniggered. “I’ve promised to help you…”

The girls moved up closer to their father. They couldn’t still believe Michael would read Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs just like that.

“I wouldn’t read you the whole Book. I hope one day you’ll do it yourself… It tells about three worlds, arisen at the same time. The Star-God created the Human World, the Dark World and the Angel World, having bound them together for eternity. He left a Crystal in each of them. The Earth is inhabited by humans, the Dark World is deserted and uninhabited, and the third World is inhabited by what we’re used to call angels.”