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Another gray trip to a small town.
At the bus stop:
an abandoned bicycle,
trembling in the rain,
waiting for someone,
who never came.

The coughing crowd,
getting on and off,
headed for the unknown.
Actors carrying
heavy bags of ugly food.

Out of the corner
of an invisible eye
snatches of words
drifting into a wrinkled worldโ€”
not the first, vivid green,
but the tired lettuce,
expired bananasโ€”
a symbol of unreachable luxury.

Casual dialogues about angels and demons,
atheists and spiritual needs.
Random people battered by reality
rolling out a red carpet for their thoughts,
spoken aloud in the indifferent air,
small talk about kicking lifeโ€”
an existential fight to survive.

The game downloaded
by an unfair fate.
Something put him, her, them
on this wrong level,
an extreme mode
the deepest discomfort.

Unfair purpose of pain.
For many,
not being loved is an aching way,
for others,
the lack of bread.

The multiple truths
closed in one small drop
of a rainy day without a name.
๐™’๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™๐™–๐™™ ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™Ÿ๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™—๐™š๐™œ๐™ช๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™๐™ช๐™ข ๐™–๐™œ๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ.

๐™‰๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™œ, ๐™š๐™ญ๐™–๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™ก๐™ฎ. ๐™…๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™—๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™ง๐™š๐™ฉ๐™ช๐™ง๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™–๐™›๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™—๐™ช๐™ง๐™™๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ง๐™š๐™˜๐™ค๐™ก๐™ก๐™š๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ. ๐˜ผ ๐™—๐™ช๐™ง๐™™๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ฌ๐™š ๐™—๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™จ๐™๐™–๐™ง๐™š๐™™. ๐˜ผ ๐™๐™ช๐™จ๐™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ช๐™˜๐™๐™š๐™จ ๐™–๐™ก๐™ก ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ช๐™จ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฌ.

๐™๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™ ๐™ฎ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™˜๐™–๐™จ๐™ฉ, ๐™—๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™˜๐™–๐™ก๐™ข. ๐˜พ๐™š๐™ฎ๐™ญ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™๐™จ ๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™˜๐™–๐™ง๐™ซ๐™š๐™™ ๐™ง๐™–๐™ž๐™ก ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™—๐™ง๐™ž๐™™๐™œ๐™š, ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ž๐™ก ๐™ฉ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™˜๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™– ๐™จ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฌ, ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ง๐™˜๐™ช๐™จ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ซ๐™š ๐™—๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ. ๐˜ผ๐™ก๐™˜๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™˜๐™ž๐™ง๐™˜๐™ก๐™š๐™จ ๐™–๐™—๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ช๐™จ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™—๐™ง๐™ค๐™–๐™™, ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ก๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™จ, ๐™จ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ค๐™˜๐™š๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™–๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ค๐™ช๐™œ๐™ ๐™œ๐™ช๐™–๐™ง๐™™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™๐™š๐™ง ๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™จ๐™ฉ.

๐™‰๐™ค ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™–๐™ ๐™จ. ๐˜ฝ๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก๐™ฃ๐™š๐™จ๐™จ ๐™›๐™š๐™š๐™ก๐™จ ๐™š๐™ญ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฉโ€ฆ ๐™–๐™จ ๐™ž๐™› ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™™๐™š๐™ง๐™ฃ๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™๐™ค๐™ก๐™™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™จ ๐™—๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ๐™.





๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐ท๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘š๐‘’. ๐ป๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘š ๐‘“๐‘™๐‘–๐‘๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ โ€”๐‘™๐‘–๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘™, โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘“-๐‘™๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž๐‘’.

๐ท๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘š, ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘‘, ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘’.

๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ.

๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘’๐‘’๐‘™๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›.
๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘˜๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜.
๐ด๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘–๐‘ก, ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘œ.


๐ด๐‘™๐‘๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘’.
โ€œ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿโ€” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ฆโ€™๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘™.โ€

๐ท๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘ก. ๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘š, ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘’.
โ€œ๐‘†๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”โ€™๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”.โ€

๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘ข๐‘‘๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘ข๐‘ .

โ€œ๐ด๐‘™๐‘๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’โ€”โ€

๐ต๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘’โ€™๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘›.
๐ผ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ก๐‘œ The ๐‘Š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘โ€™๐‘  ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ.
โ€œ๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘กโ€™๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”?โ€

๐น๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’, ๐ด๐‘™๐‘๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก,
โ€œ๐ฟ๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜! ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿโ€”๐‘–๐‘กโ€™๐‘  ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”. ๐ผ๐‘กโ€™๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘ !โ€

๐‘†โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘  ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘’-๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”.
โ€œ๐ผ๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘ก โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ?โ€

๐ท๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ง๐‘œ๐‘›. ๐ป๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ .
โ€œ๐ท๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘ก.โ€

๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”. ๐ต๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘–๐‘› โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘š ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก.


๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘†๐‘’๐‘Ž ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘ข๐‘.

๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘Ž ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’.

๐ด ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™.

๐ด ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘“๐‘“๐‘ , ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘.


๐ด ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™,
๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ โ„Ž๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’๐‘Ÿ.




๐˜š๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ.

๐˜–๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ.

๐˜‰๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฌ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ. ๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ง๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ.

๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ.

๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ข ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ. ๐˜๐˜ตโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜ฃ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ.

๐˜š๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ค๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ.


๐˜š๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฃ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ.


โ€œ๐˜ˆ๐˜ญ๐˜ค๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ. ๐˜Š๐˜ฆ๐˜บ๐˜น. ๐˜›๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ฌ๐˜บ.โ€

๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ, ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ต ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด.

โ€œ๐˜ž๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ. ๐˜Œ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ. ๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ.โ€

๐˜ˆ๐˜ญ๐˜ค๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ.

๐˜Š๐˜ฆ๐˜บ๐˜น ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ด, ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜บ ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ.

๐˜ ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜–๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ.

โ€œ๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏโ€™๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ.
๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ. ๐˜‰๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ.
๐˜‰๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ.โ€

๐˜–๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ๐˜ฆ๐˜ดโ€” ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ด๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ.

โ€œ๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถโ€™๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏโ€™๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ.โ€

โ€œ๐˜โ€™๐˜ฎ ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜บ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜โ€™๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ.โ€

โ€œ๐˜๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ?โ€

โ€œ๐˜•๐˜ฐ.โ€

๐˜ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ.

โ€œ๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜โ€™๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜บ. ๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ.โ€

๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด.

๐˜ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ. ๐˜š๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ. ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ.

๐˜š๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ.

๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜โ€™๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜บ.

๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ.

๐˜ ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ.





๐™ƒ๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ฃโ€™๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™–๐™ ๐™š ๐™ž๐™ฉ.
๐™Ž๐™๐™šโ€™๐™จ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™š๐™ง ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฌ.
๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™๐™šโ€ฆ ๐™๐™š ๐™™๐™ž๐™™๐™ฃโ€™๐™ฉ ๐™๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ข๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ง๐™š๐™˜๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง.
๐™Ž๐™๐™š ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™™ ๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ.

๐™„ ๐™™๐™ค๐™ฃโ€™๐™ฉ ๐™ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฌ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™™๐™ค ๐™ฎ๐™š๐™ฉ. ๐™‰๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ช๐™ก๐™ฎ. ๐˜ผ๐™ก๐™ก ๐™„ ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™™๐™ค ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™˜๐™–๐™ง๐™ง๐™ฎ ๐™–๐™จ ๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฎ ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ก๐™จ ๐™–๐™จ ๐™„ ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃ, ๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ก ๐™„ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™  ๐™ค๐™› ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™—๐™š๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง.

๐˜ฝ๐™š๐™›๐™ค๐™ง๐™š ๐™จ๐™๐™š ๐™—๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ ๐™จ ๐™๐™ž๐™ข.


๐™„ ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™จ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ง๐™ค๐™ช๐™œ๐™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ. ๐™๐™๐™ง๐™ค๐™ช๐™œ๐™ ๐™–๐™ก๐™ก๐™š๐™ฎ๐™จ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™˜๐™š ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™—๐™š๐™ฉ๐™ฌ๐™š๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™–๐™ก๐™ก ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™จ. ๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™„ ๐™ง๐™–๐™˜๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™š๐™™๐™œ๐™š ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™ฃ, ๐™™๐™š๐™š๐™ฅ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™˜๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฎ.
๐™„ ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™จ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™—๐™ž๐™ง๐™™๐™จ. ๐™๐™๐™š๐™ฎ ๐™œ๐™ก๐™ž๐™™๐™š. ๐™„ ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™–๐™ง.


๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ก๐™กโ€ฆ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ฎ ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ก๐™ . ๐™๐™๐™š๐™จ๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™š. ๐™Ž๐™ค ๐™˜๐™–๐™ก๐™ข. ๐™๐™๐™š๐™ฎ ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™–๐™™๐™š ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™จ. ๐™Ž๐™˜๐™ง๐™ช๐™— ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™™๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™จ. ๐™‡๐™–๐™ช๐™œ๐™.


๐™๐™๐™š๐™ฎ ๐™™๐™ค๐™ฃโ€™๐™ฉ ๐™ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฌ.





๐ˆ ๐๐จ๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž.
โ€œ๐†๐จ ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ญ๐œ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง. ๐ˆโ€™๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ญ๐ฌ.โ€

โ€œ๐˜๐ž๐ฌ, ๐๐ž๐š๐ซ.โ€
๐‚๐ž๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ง๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ.

๐Ž๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฉ๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐๐žโ€” ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ž ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ.

๐ˆ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ž.





โ€œErika, look at that bird!โ€

It shoots toward the squareโ€” an arrow cut from fire, feathers bright against the greyed-out sky.

โ€œWhat kind of bird is that? Is it hunting?โ€

โ€œIt's a tern. I donโ€™t know what it's doing here.
Just grab the laundry.
The forecast said sun, but I donโ€™t trust that sky.โ€

A voice breaks the air.
The bird screechesโ€” piercing rooftops, snapping flags from lines.
It strikes a banner.
Crashes through a fruit standโ€” apples spill across the stone.
And the people can't help but gossip.

โ€œThat birdโ€™s acting strange.โ€
โ€œEven the birds are mad now. Like the wind, remember?โ€
โ€œItโ€™s her again! Alcyoneโ€™s curse!โ€
โ€œSheโ€™s back! The sky is mad againโ€”it's Alcyone!โ€
โ€œItโ€™s her, isnโ€™t it? This time itโ€™s birds instead of wind?โ€
โ€œSheโ€™s possessed them!โ€
โ€œLook how the skyโ€™s gone grey! Sheโ€™s calling the storm again!โ€


โ€œOh, enough with the ghost stories! Worry less about the dead and more about the living! Shops closed, kids inside. Itโ€™s just a weather shift, nothing more.โ€

Yeah. Just the weather.
I pick up the laundry basket and head for the door with Erika.





๐–๐ก๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐จ๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ง?
๐–๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐›๐ข๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ค๐ฒ. ๐„๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ž๐.
๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ค๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ. ๐“๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ž. ๐“๐ก๐š๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ .
๐–๐ก๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐จ๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ ๐ ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ž๐ž๐ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐?





๐‘Š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ . ๐ต๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘’๐‘ . ๐‘†โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘™๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘›.
๐ผ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘”๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ . ๐‘ƒ๐‘’๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ . ๐ต๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ž ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿโ€™๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’โ€”๐‘“๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก.

โ€œ๐ผโ€™๐‘š ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ,โ€ ๐ผ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ. โ€œ๐ต๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘›. ๐น๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”.โ€

๐‘†โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘”๐‘”๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ .

โ€œ๐ต๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘‡๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘Ž, ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜โ€”๐‘–๐‘กโ€™๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘š ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘™! ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ฆ'๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’. ๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘Ž ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก! ๐ป๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข!โ€

๐‘๐‘œ. ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’.

โ€œ๐ถ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘ฆ, ๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›! ๐ด ๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘ ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘›! ๐ฟ๐‘’๐‘กโ€™๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘ก โ„Ž๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘“.โ€

๐ป๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘š.

๐ผ ๐‘“๐‘™๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ. ๐ต๐‘’๐‘๐‘˜๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”.

๐‘†โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘ก.

โ€œ๐ต๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’, ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘.โ€

๐‘‚๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’, ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘  ๐‘ข๐‘. ๐ป๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘’.

โ€œ๐พ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘ . ๐‘Š๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’. ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ค.โ€

๐‘†โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘ก๐‘ .

โ€œ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข, ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘!โ€ ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘š๐‘’.

๐ผ ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘› ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜.


๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค.
๐‘…๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”. ๐ป๐‘œ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”. ๐น๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”.

๐ด๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™โ€” ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘ , ๐‘–๐‘กโ€™๐‘  ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’.
๐ด ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘†๐‘’๐‘Ž, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘›๐‘œ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘ โ€” ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ .

๐ผ ๐‘“๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ. ๐‘Š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค. ๐‘‡๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘š ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘ .
๐ต๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ . ๐‘†๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”.

๐‘Œ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘ .
๐‘Œ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”.
๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘ .





โ€œItโ€™s Alcyoneโ€™s curse!โ€
โ€œNoโ€”itโ€™s because we sold her house!โ€
โ€œSheโ€™s here to drown us like she drowned that poet!โ€
โ€œShe warned us! We didnโ€™t listen!โ€
โ€œRun! RUN! THE FLOOD!โ€

The crowd breaks.

Too many legs. Too few exits.

Horses rear. Carts overturn.
Mothers lose grip. Fathers lose reason.
A man drops his wifeโ€™s hand.
She falls, swallowed by feet. No one stops.

A girl cries outโ€”โ€œMy rabbit!โ€
But the muffled crunch under my heel answers for her.
She stumbles.
Another child turns to followโ€”
โ€œLila, no!โ€

They trip. They fall.
And ten more go down with them.
Including me.
And Cindy.
And mother and the baby.

Mother screamsโ€”โ€œKids, get up!โ€
But people step over.
Step through.
Theyโ€™re just trying to live.
Thereโ€™s no room for decency now.

A thousand footsteps on top of me.
โ€œStop, stop STOP!โ€
But they donโ€™t stop.ย ย 
I canโ€™t see, they keep stepping on me.
All I can see are the bodies on the ground.
Oh gods, that girl,ย ย 
And Cindy,
And the baby,
And
โ€œMOTHER! MO-โ€œ





๐™„ ๐™ง๐™ช๐™ฃ.

๐™๐™๐™ง๐™ค๐™ช๐™œ๐™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™˜๐™ง๐™–๐™˜๐™ ๐™š๐™™ ๐™—๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š๐™จ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™จ ๐™˜๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฎ.

๐™Ž๐™ค๐™ข๐™š ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ก๐™จ ๐™š๐™ข๐™—๐™ง๐™–๐™˜๐™š ๐™ข๐™š ๐™š๐™–๐™จ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ฎ. ๐™Š๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™จ ๐™˜๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œโ€ฆ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก ๐™—๐™š๐™œ๐™œ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ, ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฏ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ฎโ€™๐™ง๐™š ๐™–๐™ก๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™™๐™ฎ ๐™™๐™š๐™–๐™™. ๐™Ž๐™ค๐™ช๐™ก ๐™ก๐™š๐™–๐™ซ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™—๐™ค๐™™๐™ฎ. ๐™๐™๐™š๐™ฎ ๐™™๐™ž๐™š ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ข๐™ฅ๐™š๐™™๐™š๐™จ, ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™–๐™ก๐™ก๐™š๐™ฎ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™จ, ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™–๐™ง๐™ข๐™จ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก ๐™˜๐™ก๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™˜๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ค๐™ก๐™™ ๐™๐™š๐™ž๐™ง๐™ก๐™ค๐™ค๐™ข๐™จ.

๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™š ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฃ๐™ค ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ข๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™˜๐™ง๐™–๐™™๐™ก๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ข. ๐™‰๐™ค ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ข๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™š๐™–๐™จ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ข ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ก๐™š๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š. ๐™„ ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ก๐™ก๐™š๐™˜๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ขโ€”๐™›๐™–๐™จ๐™ฉ, ๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š๐™ง๐™š๐™ข๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ช๐™จ, ๐™™๐™š๐™ก๐™ž๐™—๐™š๐™ง๐™–๐™ฉ๐™šโ€” ๐™—๐™š๐™›๐™ค๐™ง๐™š ๐™จ๐™๐™š ๐™™๐™š๐™จ๐™˜๐™š๐™ฃ๐™™๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™จ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ก๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ข ๐™ฌ๐™๐™ค๐™ก๐™š.

๐™ƒ๐™šโ€™๐™จ ๐™๐™š๐™ก๐™™ ๐™๐™š๐™ง ๐™—๐™–๐™˜๐™  ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™œ, ๐™—๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™„ ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™›๐™š๐™š๐™ก ๐™๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ. ๐™ƒ๐™šโ€™๐™จ ๐™ง๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™š๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™ฉ๐™.

๐™„ ๐™๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™™๐™ค ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™—๐™š๐™›๐™ค๐™ง๐™š ๐™๐™š ๐™—๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ ๐™จ.





๐˜š๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด.

๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฆ.

๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ต๐˜ฉโ€” ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ.

๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฏโ€™๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ.

๐˜๐˜ตโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜บ.

๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฌ.

๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ.

๐˜๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ.

๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜โ€” ๐˜โ€™๐˜ฎ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ.

๐˜•๐˜ฐ. ๐˜•๐˜ฐ. ๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜บ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต.

๐˜—๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฆโ€” ๐˜ ๐˜ง๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ.

๐˜‰๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜š๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ.

๐˜Œ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ.

๐˜ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏโ€™๐˜ตโ€ฆ ๐˜ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏโ€™๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ.





๐™ƒ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™–๐™œ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ฎโ€ฆ ๐™‰๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™๐™š๐™–๐™ง๐™™.

๐™๐™š๐™ก๐™ฉ.

๐™„๐™ฉ ๐™ก๐™–๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ง๐™ค๐™ช๐™œ๐™ ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™ฎ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™™ ๐™ฌ๐™šโ€™๐™ซ๐™š ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง ๐™จ๐™๐™–๐™ง๐™š๐™™โ€” ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™—๐™ช๐™ž๐™ก๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™š ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ง๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ก๐™š๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š. ๐™ƒ๐™šโ€™๐™จ ๐™จ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฅ๐™ฅ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ. ๐™ƒ๐™šโ€™๐™จ ๐™ก๐™ค๐™จ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™จ๐™๐™–๐™ฅ๐™š.

๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™„ ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™›๐™š๐™š๐™ก ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ข ๐™™๐™ฎ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ. ๐™‰๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™›๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ฎ๐™š๐™ฉโ€” ๐™๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ง๐™ช๐™ฃ. ๐™๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข ๐™š๐™–๐™˜๐™ ๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ง. ๐˜พ๐™๐™ž๐™ก๐™™๐™ง๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™˜๐™ง๐™ช๐™จ๐™๐™š๐™™ ๐™—๐™š๐™ฃ๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™˜๐™š๐™ง๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ฎ. ๐™ˆ๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™จ ๐™ก๐™š๐™›๐™ฉ ๐™—๐™š๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™™. ๐™Ž๐™ค๐™ช๐™ก๐™จ ๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฅ๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ช๐™ฅ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ง๐™™ ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ ๐™š ๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™ง๐™ ๐™จ ๐™›๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข ๐™ฌ๐™š๐™ฉ ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™™๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ.

๐™๐™๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ก๐™™, ๐™ž๐™ฉโ€™๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ค ๐™ข๐™ช๐™˜๐™. ๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ๐™šโ€™๐™จ ๐™ง๐™–๐™œ๐™šโ€ฆ ๐™จ๐™๐™šโ€™๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ค ๐™ข๐™ช๐™˜๐™.

โ€œ๐™‰๐™ค. ๐™’๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™™โ€”๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ฅ. ๐™”๐™ค๐™ช ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃโ€™๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ ๐™š ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฎ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ง๐™š!โ€

๐˜ฝ๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™๐™š ๐™ ๐™š๐™š๐™ฅ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ฎ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ. ๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™๐™ก๐™ค๐™ค๐™™ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ง๐™ฉ๐™จ ๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ง๐™ค๐™ช๐™œ๐™ ๐™– ๐™๐™ค๐™ก๐™š ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™ ๐™ฎ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™š ๐™๐™š ๐™—๐™š๐™œ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™›๐™–๐™ก๐™ก ๐™–๐™ฅ๐™–๐™ง๐™ฉ. ๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š ๐™—๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ ๐™จ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™›๐™ž๐™ง๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฌ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™จ.

๐™„ ๐™ง๐™ช๐™ฃ.

๐˜ฝ๐™–๐™˜๐™  ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ง๐™ค๐™ช๐™œ๐™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ. ๐˜ฝ๐™–๐™˜๐™  ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง๐™˜๐™š. ๐™’๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™š ๐™๐™š ๐™๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ ๐™–๐™—๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š.

๐˜ฝ๐™–๐™ง๐™š๐™ก๐™ฎ.





โ€œDarling, this way.โ€

โ€œWhat do you mean, this way!? The bridgeโ€”โ€

โ€œThe waterโ€™s gone.
All of it. Lookโ€”behind us, at that inlet on the other side. "
I cup my ear. A low, ******* groan ripples through the air.
"Itโ€™s pulling everything in. You don't want that to be us, do you?โ€

โ€œBut the riverโ€”โ€

โ€œWe can cross it. Justโ€”follow me.โ€

Others scramble after us, sliding down banks slick with disbelief.
Some already tried.
One man lost his shoe, turned to grab itโ€” and disappeared to the waist when I looked back.
The mud clutched him like it had been waiting.
He reached for another. They went down together.

โ€œMOVE! MOVE NOW!โ€ someone screams.

Still, the bodies press forward.

Roots snap under foot. Rocks cut like teeth. The mud is thick as grief. Cold as guilt.

A woman ahead lifts her child.

โ€œDonโ€™t let go. Pleaseโ€”โ€

The earth made a wet kiss. She dropped, still gripping the girlโ€™s ankle.
The girl screamed, then vanished upwardโ€”snatched by a stranger who passed her forward to another.
There was no time to grieve. Only cross.

Thenโ€”an order.
โ€œLay down the dead!โ€

A manโ€”barefoot, bleedingโ€”shoves two ahead of him.

โ€œWhat?!โ€

โ€œTRUST ME! Weโ€™ll make a path.โ€

He drops a dead body into the mud, and steps in, stuck next to it. Another follows. Three. Four. Five.
A human bridge.
Someone steps on a shoulder. Then a spine.
The first man shudders, then stops.

โ€œKeep going,โ€ he mutters, voice half-swallowed.
Another slips. A childโ€™s foot crushes a face.
The third man says nothing as a boy scrambles over him.
He simply exhales. And waits for silence to fold him down.
A woman, wounded, slides beside them. She takes her place.
Grit in her teeth. Eyes steady.

And thenโ€”
The bridge holds.
Bodies became elevation.
People cross. Children passed like prayer.

โ€œDarling, come on,โ€ I push Erika forward.

โ€œNoโ€”NO. I canโ€™tโ€”Not over themโ€”!โ€

โ€œYou have to. Donโ€™t think. Justโ€”move.โ€

She closes her eyes.
She steps.
Beside me, another bridge forms.
Another line of men, passing infants hand to hand.
Their limbs sinking under the weight.

The flood grows behind us.
I take my place in the line of men passing along children.
As the path vanishes, one breath at a time.





๐™Ž๐™ค๐™ช๐™ก๐™จ ๐™—๐™ง๐™ช๐™จ๐™ ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™šโ€” ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š ๐™ก๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™ฉ, ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ข๐™ž๐™™-๐™›๐™ก๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™ฉ.

๐™„ ๐™™๐™ค๐™ฃโ€™๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ฅ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ก๐™ก๐™š๐™˜๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ข. ๐™„โ€™๐™ข ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ง๐™ฎ, ๐™„ ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃโ€™๐™ฉ.
๐™„ ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™˜๐™ ๐™๐™ž๐™ข ๐™Ÿ๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™–๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ง ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™˜๐™ง๐™–๐™จ๐™๐™š๐™จ ๐™–๐™˜๐™ง๐™ค๐™จ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ก๐™š๐™ฉโ€” ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™˜๐™ช๐™ง๐™ซ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™จ๐™ž๐™™๐™š๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™จ, ๐™–๐™ž๐™ข๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™˜๐™ง๐™ช๐™จ๐™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™—๐™ง๐™ž๐™™๐™œ๐™š ๐™—๐™š๐™ฃ๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™จ๐™š๐™ก๐™›.

๐™ƒ๐™š ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก ๐™๐™ค๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ, ๐™จ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™›๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฌ, ๐˜ฝ๐™–๐™ง๐™š๐™ก๐™ฎ. ๐™๐™ก๐™ž๐™˜๐™ ๐™š๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ. ๐™๐™–๐™™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™›๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข ๐™›๐™š๐™–๐™งโ€” ๐™—๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™›๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ฎ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™๐™ค๐™ก๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ค ๐™ข๐™ช๐™˜๐™.

๐™„ ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™˜๐™.
๐™ˆ๐™ฎ ๐™๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™๐™จ ๐™ข๐™š๐™š๐™ฉ ๐™–๐™˜๐™๐™š, ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™–๐™ž๐™ง.

โ€œ๐™€๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ช๐™œ๐™,โ€ ๐™„ ๐™จ๐™–๐™ฎ.

โ€œ๐™’๐™šโ€™๐™ง๐™š ๐™ก๐™ค๐™จ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ข,โ€ ๐™๐™š ๐™œ๐™–๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™จ.

โ€œ๐™„ ๐™ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฌ. ๐˜ฝ๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™ฌ๐™šโ€™๐™ก๐™ก ๐™ก๐™ค๐™จ๐™š ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช, ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ค. ๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™šโ€™๐™ก๐™ก ๐™—๐™š ๐™ฃ๐™ค ๐™๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™š ๐™ก๐™š๐™›๐™ฉ.โ€

๐™ƒ๐™š ๐™™๐™ค๐™š๐™จ๐™ฃโ€™๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™–๐™ . ๐˜ฝ๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™๐™ž๐™ข ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ง๐™ฉ๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฌ๐™š๐™š๐™ฅ.

โ€œ๐™„ ๐™ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฌ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™™๐™ค ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฌ.โ€ ๐™„ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ฅ ๐™˜๐™ก๐™ค๐™จ๐™š๐™ง.
โ€œ๐™”๐™ค๐™ช ๐™œ๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ข๐™š ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง๐™ข. ๐™‰๐™ค๐™ฌ ๐™ก๐™š๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™š ๐™œ๐™ž๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™จ๐™๐™š๐™ก๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง.โ€

โ€œ๐™’๐™๐™–๐™ฉโ€”?โ€

โ€œ๐™„๐™ฃ๐™จ๐™ž๐™™๐™š ๐™ข๐™š. ๐˜ฝ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ๐™๐™š. ๐™‡๐™š๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™š ๐™˜๐™–๐™ง๐™ง๐™ฎ ๐™ช๐™จ. ๐™๐™š๐™จ๐™ฉ.โ€

๐™ƒ๐™š ๐™๐™š๐™จ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š๐™จ. ๐™๐™๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ฎ๐™ž๐™š๐™ก๐™™๐™จ. ๐™‰๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™™๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™ฃ. ๐™„๐™ฃ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ง๐™™.
๐™„ ๐™œ๐™–๐™จ๐™ฅโ€”๐™›๐™ช๐™ก๐™ก-๐™—๐™ค๐™™๐™ฎ. ๐˜พ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ซ๐™ช๐™ก๐™จ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ.
๐™ƒ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ซ๐™ค๐™ž๐™˜๐™š, ๐™จ๐™ค๐™›๐™ฉ ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ข๐™š, โ€œ๐™”๐™ค๐™ชโ€™๐™ง๐™š ๐™จ๐™ช๐™ง๐™šโ€ฆ?โ€

โ€œ๐™”๐™š๐™จ,โ€ ๐™„ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™ž๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ง. โ€œ๐™‰๐™ค๐™ฌ ๐™ก๐™š๐™ฉโ€™๐™จ ๐™œ๐™ค.โ€

๐™‰๐™ค๐™ฌ, ๐™ž๐™ฉโ€™๐™จ ๐™– ๐™ง๐™–๐™˜๐™š ๐™–๐™œ๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š.

๐™„ ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™˜๐™โ€” ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง๐™ฎ ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ก ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™ฎ๐™š๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ก๐™š๐™ฃ.





โ‚ฎโฑงษ†ษŽ โ‚ดโ‚ตโฑคษ†โ‚ณโ‚ฅ.

โ‚ณโ‚ฆฤ ล‚ โ‚ดโ‚ฅล‚โฑ ษ†.

ล‚โ‚ฎ โ‚ฅโ‚ณโ‚ญษ†โ‚ด โ‚ฅษ† โ‚ดร˜ โฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฑโ‚ฑษŽ.

โ‚ณโ‚ฎ โฑ โ‚ณโ‚ดโ‚ฎ, โ‚ฎโฑงษ† โฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฑโ‚ฑล‚โ‚ฆษ†โ‚ดโ‚ด ล‚ ฤษ†โ‚ดษ†โฑคVษ†.


โ‚ฎโฑงษ† โ‚ฉร˜โฑคโฑ ฤ โ‚ดษ„โฑคโฑคษ†โ‚ฆฤษ†โฑคโ‚ด เธฟษ†โ‚ฆษ†โ‚ณโ‚ฎโฑง โ‚ฅษ†, โ‚ณ โ‚ฎโฑงโฑคร˜โ‚ฆษ† เธฟร˜โฑคโ‚ฆ ร˜โ‚ฃ โ‚ตร˜โฑ โฑ โ‚ณโ‚ฑโ‚ดษ†, โ‚ณโ‚ฆฤ โ‚ดโ‚ฎล‚โฑ โฑ  โ‚ฎโฑงษ†ษŽ โ‚ดโ‚ตโฑคษ†โ‚ณโ‚ฅ. ล‚ โ‚ตโ‚ณโ‚ฆโ‚ฎ ฤษ†โ‚ตล‚ฤษ† โ‚ฉโฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฎ ล‚ โฑ ร˜Vษ† โ‚ฅร˜โฑคษ†,

โ‚ฎโฑงษ† โ‚ฉล‚ฤษ†โ‚ฆล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ ร˜โ‚ฃ โ‚ฎโฑงษ† ษ†ษŽษ†โ‚ด, ร˜โฑค โ‚ฎโฑงษ† โ‚ดล‚โฑ ษ†โ‚ฆโ‚ตษ† โ‚ฎโฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฎ
โ‚ฃร˜โฑ โฑ ร˜โ‚ฉโ‚ด โ‚ฉโฑงษ†โ‚ฆ โ‚ฎโฑงษ† โ‚ฎโฑงโฑคร˜โ‚ณโ‚ฎ โ‚ฒล‚Vษ†โ‚ด ร˜ษ„โ‚ฎ.


โ‚ฎโฑงษ†ล‚โฑค โ‚ดษ„โ‚ฃโ‚ฃษ†โฑคล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ ล‚โ‚ด โ‚ฅษŽ โ‚ตร˜โฑคร˜โ‚ฆโ‚ณโ‚ฎล‚ร˜โ‚ฆ.

โฑ ษ†โ‚ฎ โ‚ฎโฑงษ†โ‚ฅ โ‚ดโ‚ตโฑคษ†โ‚ณโ‚ฅ โฑงล‚โ‚ด โ‚ฆโ‚ณโ‚ฅษ†. โฑ ษ†โ‚ฎ โ‚ฎโฑงษ†โ‚ฅ โ‚ฑโฑคโ‚ณษŽ โ‚ฃร˜โฑค ฤษ†โ‚ณโ‚ฎโฑง.
ล‚โ‚ฎโ‚ด โ‚ฃโ‚ณโ‚ฎษ† โ‚ฉโฑงร˜ โฑงร˜โฑ ฤโ‚ด โ‚ฎโฑงษ†ล‚โฑค โฑงษ†โ‚ณฤโ‚ด ษ„โ‚ฆฤษ†โฑค.
เธฟษ†โ‚ฒโ‚ฒล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ ร˜โ‚ฆโฑ ษŽ โ‚ฅโ‚ณโ‚ญษ†โ‚ด ล‚โ‚ฎ โ‚ฉร˜โฑคโ‚ดษ†. โ‚ฎโฑงษ†ล‚โฑค ฤษ†Vร˜โ‚ฎล‚ร˜โ‚ฆ โ‚ฎร˜ โ‚ฎโฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฎ โ‚ฎโฑงล‚ษ†โ‚ฃ ฤร˜ษ†โ‚ด โ‚ฆร˜โ‚ฎโฑงล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ เธฟษ„โ‚ฎ โ‚ดโ‚ฉษ†ษ†โ‚ฎษ†โ‚ฆ โ‚ฅษŽ โฑคษ†โ‚ณโ‚ตโ‚ฎล‚ร˜โ‚ฆ.


ล‚ โ‚ฅร˜Vษ† โ‚ฃร˜โฑคโ‚ฉโ‚ณโฑคฤ โ‚ฉล‚โ‚ฎโฑงร˜ษ„โ‚ฎ ษ†โ‚ฃโ‚ฃร˜โฑคโ‚ฎ. โ‚ฎโฑงษ† โ‚ฉร˜โฑคโฑ ฤ เธฟร˜โ‚ฉโ‚ด โ‚ณโ‚ฆฤ ล‚ โ‚ฒโฑ ล‚ฤษ†, โฑคล‚ฤล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ โ‚ฎโฑงษ† โ‚ตโฑคษ†โ‚ดโ‚ฎ โฑ ล‚โ‚ญษ† โ‚ณ โ‚ฑโฑคร˜โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ดษ† โ‚ฃล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ณโฑ โฑ ษŽ โ‚ญษ†โ‚ฑโ‚ฎ.

ร˜โฑง, โ‚ฅษŽ โ‚ฑร˜ร˜โฑค โฑ ล‚โ‚ฎโ‚ฎโฑ ษ† โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ดโ‚ฒษ„ล‚ฤษ†ฤ โ‚ฉล‚โ‚ฆฤ. ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ฒโ‚ณVษ† โฑงล‚โ‚ฅ ษŽร˜ษ„โฑค ษ†โ‚ฅเธฟโฑคโ‚ณโ‚ตษ† ร˜โ‚ฆ โ‚ฎโฑงษ† เธฟโฑคล‚ฤโ‚ฒษ†, โ‚ดร˜ ล‚ โ‚ฎร˜ร˜โ‚ญ โ‚ฎโฑงษ† เธฟโฑคล‚ฤโ‚ฒษ†. ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ฒโ‚ณVษ† โ‚ฎโฑงษ†โ‚ฅ โ‚ฉล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒโ‚ด, โ‚ดร˜ ล‚ เธฟโฑคร˜โ‚ญษ† ษŽร˜ษ„โฑค โ‚ดโ‚ญษŽ. ษŽร˜ษ„ Vล‚โ‚ดล‚โ‚ฎษ†ฤ โ‚ฎโฑงษ† โ‚ตล‚โ‚ฎษŽ ล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ดโ‚ฎษ†โ‚ณฤ ร˜โ‚ฃ โ‚ฅษ†, โ‚ดร˜ ล‚โ‚ฅ โ‚ฎโ‚ณโ‚ญล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ โ‚ฎโฑงษ† โ‚ตล‚โ‚ฎษŽ โ‚ฎร˜ร˜.

ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ฑโ‚ณษŽ โ‚ณโ‚ฎโ‚ฎษ†โ‚ฆโ‚ฎล‚ร˜โ‚ฆ โ‚ฎร˜ ษ†Vษ†โฑคษŽโ‚ฎโฑงล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ เธฟษ„โ‚ฎ โ‚ฅษ†. ษŽร˜ษ„ โฑ ร˜Vษ† ษ†Vษ†โฑคษŽโ‚ฎโฑงล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ เธฟษ„โ‚ฎ โ‚ฅษ†. ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ณโฑคษ† โ‚ฃโ‚ณล‚โ‚ฎโฑงโ‚ฃษ„โฑ  โ‚ฎร˜ ษ†Vษ†โฑคษŽโ‚ฎโฑงล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ เธฟษ„โ‚ฎ โ‚ฅษ†. โ‚ดร˜ ล‚ โ‚ฉล‚โฑ โฑ  โ‚ฎโ‚ณโ‚ญษ† ษ†Vษ†โฑคษŽโ‚ฎโฑงล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ. ษ„โ‚ฆโ‚ฎล‚โฑ  โ‚ณโฑ โฑ  โ‚ฎโฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฎโ‚ด โฑ ษ†โ‚ฃโ‚ฎ โ‚ฎร˜ โฑ ร˜ร˜โ‚ญ โ‚ณโ‚ฎโ€” โ‚ฎร˜ ษ†โ‚ฅเธฟโฑคโ‚ณโ‚ตษ†โ€” โ‚ฎร˜ โฑ ร˜Vษ†โ€” ล‚โ‚ด โ‚ฅษ†. โ‚ฎโฑงษ†โฑคษ† โ‚ฉล‚โฑ โฑ  เธฟษ† โ‚ฆร˜โ‚ฎโฑงล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ โฑ ษ†โ‚ฃโ‚ฎ โ‚ฎร˜ โ‚ดโ‚ฎษ†โ‚ณโฑ  ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ณโ‚ฉโ‚ณษŽ.

ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ฉล‚โฑ โฑ  เธฟษ† โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆษ† โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆษ† โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆษ†.
เธฟษ†โ‚ตโ‚ณษ„โ‚ดษ† ล‚โ‚ฎ โ‚ฉล‚โฑ โฑ  โ‚ณโฑ โฑ  เธฟษ† โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆษ† โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆษ† โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆษ†.


ร˜โ‚ฆษ† เธฟษŽ ร˜โ‚ฆษ†.

ล‚ โ‚ฎโ‚ณโ‚ญษ† โ‚ฎโฑงษ†โ‚ฅ.

ร˜โฑง, โฑงร˜โ‚ฉ โ‚ฃโ‚ณโฑค โ‚ดร˜ โ‚ฅโ‚ณโ‚ฆษŽ โฑงโ‚ณVษ† โ‚ฅโ‚ณฤษ† ล‚โ‚ฎ, ล‚โ‚ฆ โ‚ณ โ‚ฃษ„โ‚ฎล‚โฑ ษ† โ‚ณโ‚ฎโ‚ฎษ†โ‚ฅโ‚ฑโ‚ฎ โ‚ฎร˜ ษ†Vโ‚ณฤษ† โ‚ฑโ‚ณษŽโ‚ฅษ†โ‚ฆโ‚ฎ.

โ‚ณ โ‚ฒล‚โฑคโฑ  โฑงล‚ฤษ†โ‚ด เธฟษ†โ‚ฆษ†โ‚ณโ‚ฎโฑง โฑงษ†โฑค โ‚ฅร˜โ‚ฎโฑงษ†โฑคโ‚ด โ‚ดโฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฉโฑ .

โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆษ†.

โ‚ณ เธฟร˜ษŽ โ‚ฎโฑคล‚โ‚ฑโ‚ด ร˜Vษ†โฑค โ‚ณ โฑคษ„โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ ร˜โ‚ฃ โฑคร˜โ‚ฑษ†.

โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆษ†.

โ‚ณ ฤร˜โ‚ฒ โฑงร˜โ‚ฉโฑ โ‚ด ร˜โ‚ฆโ‚ตษ†, ษ†โ‚ณโฑคโ‚ด โ‚ฃโฑ โ‚ณโ‚ฎ, โ‚ฃร˜โ‚ณโ‚ฅ ล‚โ‚ฆ ล‚โ‚ฎโ‚ด โ‚ฎโฑงโฑคร˜โ‚ณโ‚ฎ.

โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆษ†.

โ‚ฎโฑงษ† โ‚ฃโฑ ร˜ร˜ฤ ล‚โ‚ด โ‚ฅษŽ โ‚ฆโ‚ณโ‚ฅษ†โ€” โฑ ร˜โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ, โฑ ร˜โ‚ฉ, ษ†โ‚ฎษ†โฑคโ‚ฆโ‚ณโฑ .


โ‚ฎโฑงษ†โ‚ฆโ€”

ล‚ โ‚ดษ†ษ† ล‚โ‚ฎ. โ‚ฅษŽ ษ†โ‚ดโ‚ตโ‚ณโ‚ฑษ†ฤ โ‚ฑโฑคล‚โ‚ดร˜โ‚ฆษ†โฑค, โ‚ฎโฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฎ โ‚ฎโฑงล‚ษ†Vล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ โ‚ฎโฑงล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ
โ‚ตโ‚ณโฑ โฑ ษ†ฤ ฤษ†โ‚ณโ‚ฎโฑง.
โ‚ฒโฑ ร˜โ‚ฉล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ โ‚ฃโ‚ณล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฎโฑ ษŽ. โ‚ดโ‚ฎล‚โฑ โฑ  โฑคษ„โ‚ฆโ‚ฆล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ.

เธฟษ„โ‚ฎโ€”

โ‚ฎโฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฎ ฤษ†โ‚ณโ‚ฎโฑง ฤร˜ษ†โ‚ด โ‚ฆร˜โ‚ฎ โ‚ฒโฑ ร˜โ‚ฉ.

โ‚ณโ‚ฆฤ ษŽษ†โ‚ฎโ€”

ล‚โ‚ฎ ฤร˜ษ†โ‚ด.

โ‚ฎโฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฎโ‚ด โ‚ฆร˜โ‚ฎ ฤษ†โ‚ณโ‚ฎโฑง.

โ‚ฎโฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฎโ‚ด โฑงล‚โ‚ฅ.
โ‚ฅษŽ โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ดโ‚ฒษ„ล‚ฤษ†ฤ โฑ ร˜Vษ†โฑค.

ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ฎษ„โ‚ตโ‚ญษ†ฤ ษŽร˜ษ„โฑคโ‚ดษ†โฑ โ‚ฃ ล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ดล‚ฤษ† โ‚ฎโฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฎ โฑงษ„โ‚ดโ‚ญ ล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ดโ‚ฎษ†โ‚ณฤ ร˜โ‚ฃ โ‚ฅษ†?
โฑ ษ†โ‚ฎ โ‚ฅษ† โ‚ฒษ„ษ†โ‚ดโ‚ด. ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ฎโฑงร˜ษ„โ‚ฒโฑงโ‚ฎ โฑงษ† โ‚ตร˜ษ„โฑ ฤ โ‚ดโฑงล‚ษ†โฑ ฤ ษŽร˜ษ„. ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ฎโฑงร˜ษ„โ‚ฒโฑงโ‚ฎ โฑงล‚ฤล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ โ‚ฉร˜ษ„โฑ ฤ โฑงษ„โฑคโ‚ฎ โ‚ฅษ† โฑ ษ†โ‚ดโ‚ด.

โฑงร˜โ‚ฉ โ‚ดโ‚ฉษ†ษ†โ‚ฎ.

โฑงร˜โ‚ฉ โ‚ดโ‚ฎษ„โ‚ฑล‚ฤ.

ล‚โฑ โฑ  โ‚ฑษ†ษ†โฑ  โ‚ฎโฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฎ โ‚ดโฑงษ†โฑ โฑ  ร˜โ‚ฑษ†โ‚ฆ โ‚ฉล‚โ‚ฎโฑง โ‚ฅษŽ โ‚ฃล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒษ†โฑคโ‚ด. โ‚ฎษ†โ‚ณโฑค โฑงล‚โ‚ฅ โ‚ฑล‚ษ†โ‚ตษ† เธฟษŽ โ‚ฑล‚ษ†โ‚ตษ† ษ„โ‚ฆโ‚ฎล‚โฑ  ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ฎษ„โ‚ฅเธฟโฑ ษ† ร˜ษ„โ‚ฎโ€” โ‚ฒโ‚ณโ‚ดโ‚ฑล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ, โ‚ฒโฑคโ‚ณโ‚ฎษ†โ‚ฃษ„โฑ ,

โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆษ†.





๐‘Š๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘’.
๐ด๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘“๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘๐‘ , ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘ , ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘’๐‘’๐‘™ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›.

๐ด๐‘™๐‘๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘’, ๐‘’๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ก-๐‘ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘๐‘˜ ๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘Ÿ.
๐ต๐‘’๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘ข๐‘ , ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘๐‘ .

๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘›, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘‘, ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘š๐‘๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›.
๐ธ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”.

๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘”๐‘œ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘›. ๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘˜, ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ค ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐น๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’โ€™๐‘  ๐‘’๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘ , ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘š ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ โ€” ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’โ€™๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘˜๐‘ฆ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘“๐‘ก ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘‘ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘–๐‘ก.
๐ด๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ด๐‘™๐‘๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก.

๐‘Š๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘‘. ๐ผ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ .
๐‘ƒ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘. ๐น๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘ก.
๐‘‚๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘š ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘กโ€™๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘โ„Žโ€™๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘›, ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘›.
๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”. ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘›โ€™๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ.
๐ต๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘›โ€™๐‘ก ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘›โ€™๐‘ก ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘“๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ.

๐ต๐‘’๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ค, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ , ๐‘Ž ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘™๐‘’.
๐ด ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘™๐‘‘? ๐ด ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘ก?
๐‘†โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘›โ€™๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘’.
๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“๐‘“ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ.

๐ผ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜ ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐ด๐‘™๐‘๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’. ๐‘†โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘›โ€™๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘โ„Ž.
โ€œ๐‘Š๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘™๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ,โ€ ๐ผ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ.
๐‘†โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘™๐‘ฆ, ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘๐‘’.
โ€œ๐ด๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘ก.โ€ ๐‘†โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  back.

๐‘†๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ .
๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ก โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’. ๐‘†๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ÿ.
๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž.

๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘ โ€ฆ ๐ผ๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘‘๐‘œ? ๐ฝ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’? ๐ผ๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’?

โ€œ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘ ,โ€ ๐ผ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ.
โ€œ๐ป๐‘’โ€™๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘šโ€ ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘ .
โ€œ๐ด๐‘ก ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘กโ€ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘๐‘’๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘š๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘š...โ€





๐‘ฐ ๐’“๐’–๐’”๐’‰.

๐‘ป๐’‰๐’“๐’๐’–๐’ˆ๐’‰ ๐’‚๐’๐’๐’†๐’š๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’‘๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’„ ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐’‘๐’“๐’‚๐’š๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐’๐’ ๐’๐’๐’† ๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’”๐’‰๐’†๐’”.

๐‘พ๐’Š๐’๐’… ๐’„๐’๐’Š๐’๐’” ๐’Š๐’๐’”๐’Š๐’…๐’† ๐’Ž๐’†, ๐’’๐’–๐’Š๐’†๐’•. ๐‘จ๐’๐’… ๐‘ฐ ๐’Œ๐’†๐’†๐’‘ ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’„๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ. ๐‘ฐ ๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’… ๐’‚ ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’ ๐’‰๐’๐’๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‚ ๐’…๐’๐’๐’“ ๐’”๐’‰๐’–๐’• ๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’Š๐’๐’”๐’• ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’•๐’Š๐’…๐’†. ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐’…๐’๐’๐’“ ๐’‰๐’‚๐’” ๐’๐’ ๐’˜๐’‚๐’๐’๐’” ๐’๐’†๐’‡๐’•. ๐‘ฐ ๐’•๐’‚๐’Œ๐’† ๐’‰๐’Š๐’Ž. ๐‘จ ๐’„๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’… ๐’„๐’–๐’“๐’๐’†๐’… ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’‰ ๐’‚ ๐’•๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’†, ๐’„๐’๐’–๐’๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’๐’Š๐’Œ๐’† ๐’Š๐’•โ€™๐’” ๐’‚ ๐’”๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’. ๐‘ฐ ๐’•๐’‚๐’Œ๐’† ๐’‰๐’†๐’“, ๐’•๐’๐’.

๐‘ฉ๐’–๐’• ๐‘ฐ... ๐‘ฐ ๐’‚๐’Ž ๐’๐’๐’• ๐’Š๐’๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’†.

๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐’‡๐’๐’๐’๐’… ๐’‘๐’–๐’๐’๐’” ๐’‰๐’‚๐’“๐’…๐’†๐’“. ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐’˜๐’†๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’• ๐’๐’‡ ๐’Ž๐’†๐’Ž๐’๐’“๐’š ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’„๐’Œ๐’†๐’๐’” ๐’Š๐’ ๐’Ž๐’š ๐’„๐’‰๐’†๐’”๐’•. ๐‘ต๐’‚๐’Ž๐’†๐’” ๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’” ๐’๐’Š๐’Œ๐’† ๐’‡๐’Š๐’“๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’‰ ๐’Ž๐’š ๐’“๐’Š๐’ƒ๐’”. ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’‰๐’” ๐‘ฐ ๐’…๐’Š๐’…๐’โ€™๐’• ๐’•๐’‚๐’Œ๐’† ๐’๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’Š๐’๐’”๐’Š๐’…๐’† ๐’Ž๐’†. โ€œ๐‘พ๐’Š๐’๐’…,โ€ ๐‘ฐ ๐’˜๐’‰๐’Š๐’”๐’‘๐’†๐’“ ๐’Š๐’๐’˜๐’‚๐’“๐’…, โ€œ๐‘ฐโ€™๐’Ž ๐’…๐’“๐’๐’˜๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’Š๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’Ž.โ€

๐‘ฏ๐’† ๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’“๐’”. โ€œ๐‘ซ๐’๐’โ€™๐’• ๐’†๐’™๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’… ๐’‚๐’๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐’†๐’๐’†๐’“๐’ˆ๐’š. ๐‘ฎ๐’‚๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“ ๐’˜๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’„๐’‚๐’. ๐’€๐’๐’– ๐’„๐’‚๐’โ€™๐’• ๐’”๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’ ๐’๐’‡ ๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’Ž.โ€

๐‘ฐ ๐’”๐’•๐’“๐’†๐’•๐’„๐’‰ ๐’๐’๐’† ๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’…, ๐’‘๐’–๐’”๐’‰ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’๐’†๐’™๐’• ๐’˜๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’ ๐’”๐’•๐’๐’๐’† ๐’Š๐’๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’‚๐’… ๐’๐’‡ ๐’”๐’•๐’“๐’†๐’†๐’•. ๐‘ฐ๐’• ๐’”๐’‘๐’๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’”. ๐‘ต๐’๐’• ๐’”๐’•๐’๐’‘๐’”. ๐‘ฉ๐’–๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’–๐’š๐’” ๐’”๐’†๐’„๐’๐’๐’…๐’”. ๐‘ญ๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’Ž๐’๐’“๐’† ๐’”๐’๐’–๐’๐’” ๐’“๐’Š๐’”๐’†. ๐‘ฐ ๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“ ๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’Ž. ๐‘ฒ๐’๐’†๐’†๐’” ๐’”๐’‰๐’‚๐’Œ๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ. โ€œ๐‘ฐ ๐’๐’†๐’†๐’…โ€”๐’Ž๐’๐’“๐’† ๐’•๐’Š๐’Ž๐’†.โ€

๐‘ฐ ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’„๐’‰ ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’Ž๐’๐’“๐’† ๐’”๐’‘๐’Š๐’๐’๐’†๐’… ๐’”๐’๐’–๐’๐’”,


๐‘ฉ๐’–๐’• ๐‘ญ๐’‚๐’•๐’† ๐’‰๐’‚๐’” ๐’„๐’‚๐’–๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’• ๐’–๐’‘ ๐’•๐’ ๐’Ž๐’†.





ร˜โฑง, โ‚ฆร˜ ษŽร˜ษ„ ฤร˜โ‚ฆโ‚ฎ.

ษŽร˜ษ„ ฤร˜โ‚ฆโ‚ฎ โ‚ฒษ†โ‚ฎ โ‚ฎร˜ โ‚ตโ‚ณโฑคโฑคษŽ โ‚ฎโฑงษ†โ‚ฅ โ‚ฉโฑงษ†โฑคษ† ล‚ โ‚ตโ‚ณโ‚ฆโ‚ฎ โ‚ฃษ†ษ†ฤ.
ษŽร˜ษ„ ฤร˜โ‚ฆโ‚ฎ โ‚ฒษ†โ‚ฎ โ‚ฎร˜ โฑงร˜โ‚ณโฑคฤ โ‚ฉโฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฎ โ‚ฉโ‚ณโ‚ด โ‚ฅษ†โ‚ณโ‚ฆโ‚ฎ โ‚ฃร˜โฑค โ‚ฅษ†.
ล‚ โ‚ฉโ‚ณโฑคโ‚ฆษ†ฤ ษŽร˜ษ„, โ‚ฎโฑงล‚ษ†โ‚ฃ.
ษŽร˜ษ„โฑค ฤษ†เธฟโ‚ฎ ล‚โ‚ด โ‚ฆษ†ำพโ‚ฎ.


โ‚ฑโ‚ณษŽ ษ„โ‚ฑ.





๐™Ž๐™๐™š ๐™˜๐™ง๐™ช๐™จ๐™๐™š๐™จ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ง๐™™.

๐™๐™๐™š ๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™š๐™จ๐™จ๐™ช๐™ง๐™šโ€”๐™– ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ก๐™ก๐™–๐™ฅ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ง. ๐™ˆ๐™ฎ ๐™ง๐™ž๐™—๐™จโ€”๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™›๐™ง๐™–๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™ช๐™ง๐™š. ๐™„ ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃโ€™๐™ฉ ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™จ๐™˜๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ข.

๐™ˆ๐™ฎ ๐™˜๐™๐™š๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™—๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ ๐™จ ๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ฃ. ๐™Ž๐™๐™š ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃโ€™๐™ฉ ๐™™๐™š๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ฎ ๐™ข๐™š.
๐˜ฝ๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™๐™š ๐™ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™จ ๐™จ๐™๐™š ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™š ๐™–๐™ฅ๐™–๐™ง๐™ฉ. ๐™Ž๐™˜๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง ๐™ข๐™š. ๐˜ผ๐™œ๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ.

๐™‡๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™ฉ ๐™›๐™ก๐™ค๐™ค๐™™๐™จ ๐™›๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข ๐™ข๐™š, ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™„ ๐™ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฌ... ๐™„โ€™๐™ข ๐™›๐™–๐™ž๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ. ๐™Ž๐™ค๐™ช๐™ก ๐™–๐™›๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ก ๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฅ๐™จ ๐™›๐™ง๐™š๐™šโ€”
๐™๐™๐™š ๐™˜๐™๐™ž๐™ก๐™™๐™ง๐™š๐™ฃ. ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™ž๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ. ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™ข๐™ž๐™™๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™›๐™š. ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™—๐™ค๐™ฎ. ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™ฆ๐™ช๐™ž๐™š๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ž๐™ง๐™จ. ๐™„ ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ฎ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™๐™ค๐™ก๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ข, ๐™—๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™จ๐™๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™–๐™ง๐™จ ๐™›๐™–๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™„ ๐™˜๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™–๐™ .


๐™Š๐™ฃ๐™š.


๐˜ฝ๐™ฎ.


๐™Š๐™ฃ๐™š.





๐˜ ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ.

๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ด ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ค๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ.

๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ.

๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ด๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ.

๐˜”๐˜บ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฏโ€™๐˜ต ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ.

๐˜•๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด.

๐˜ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ณ. โ€œ๐˜โ€™๐˜ฎ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜บ,โ€ ๐˜ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ.

โ€œ๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜บ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฌ.โ€

๐˜”๐˜บ ๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ.

๐˜ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ.

๐˜ ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜จ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต.


๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ.





โ‚ฎโฑงษ†โฑคษ† ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ณโฑคษ†.

โ‚ฎโฑงษ†โฑคษ† ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ณโฑคษ†, โ‚ฅษŽ ฤโ‚ณโฑคโฑ ล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ โ‚ตโ‚ณโ‚ฎโ‚ณโ‚ดโ‚ฎโฑคร˜โ‚ฑโฑงษ†.

โ‚ณโฑ โฑ  ฤโฑคษ†โ‚ดโ‚ดษ†ฤ ล‚โ‚ฆ โฑคษ„ล‚โ‚ฆ. โ‚ดโ‚ฎล‚โฑ โฑ  โ‚ฎโฑคษŽล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ โ‚ฎร˜ โ‚ตโฑคโ‚ณโ‚ฉโฑ  โ‚ฃโฑคร˜โ‚ฅ โ‚ฅษŽ โ‚ดโฑงโ‚ณฤร˜โ‚ฉ.

ฤร˜โ‚ฆโ‚ฎ ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ดษ†ษ†?

ษŽร˜ษ„Vษ† โ‚ณโฑ โ‚ฉโ‚ณษŽโ‚ด เธฟษ†ษ†โ‚ฆ โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆษ†.

โ‚ฃโฑคร˜โ‚ฅ โ‚ฎโฑงษ† เธฟโฑคษ†โ‚ณโ‚ฎโฑง โ‚ฎโฑงษ†ษŽ โ‚ดโ‚ฎร˜โฑ ษ† ษŽร˜ษ„ ล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฎร˜, โ‚ฎร˜ โ‚ฎโฑงษ† เธฟร˜ฤษŽ ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ฎโฑงร˜ษ„โ‚ฒโฑงโ‚ฎ โ‚ตร˜ษ„โฑ ฤ โฑงร˜โฑ ฤ ษŽร˜ษ„ เธฟษ†โ‚ฎโ‚ฎษ†โฑค.
ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ตโ‚ณโฑ โฑ ษ†ฤ โฑงล‚โ‚ฅ โฑงร˜โ‚ฅษ†. ษŽร˜ษ„ โฑ ษ†โ‚ฎ โฑงล‚โ‚ฅ โ‚ตโฑคโ‚ณฤโฑ ษ† ษŽร˜ษ„.
เธฟษ†โ‚ตโ‚ณษ„โ‚ดษ† โฑงษ† ฤษ†โ‚ตษ†ล‚Vษ†ฤ ษŽร˜ษ„. โ‚ฅษŽ โ‚ฑร˜ร˜โฑค, โ‚ฉษ†โ‚ณโ‚ญ, Vษ„โฑ โ‚ฆษ†โฑคโ‚ณเธฟโฑ ษ† โฑ ล‚โ‚ฎโ‚ฎโฑ ษ† โ‚ฉล‚โ‚ฆฤ. เธฟษ„โ‚ฎ ล‚โ‚ฎ โ‚ฉโ‚ณโ‚ด โ‚ฅษŽ โ‚ฆโ‚ณโ‚ฅษ† เธฟษ†โฑงล‚โ‚ฆฤ ษ†Vษ†โฑคษŽ โฑงษ†โ‚ณโฑคโ‚ฎเธฟษ†โ‚ณโ‚ฎ.

ษŽร˜ษ„ โฑคโ‚ณโ‚ฆ. ษŽร˜ษ„ โฑงล‚ฤ.
โ‚ณโ‚ฆฤ โ‚ดโ‚ฎล‚โฑ โฑ โ€”โฑ ร˜ร˜โ‚ญ โ‚ณโ‚ฎ ษŽร˜ษ„.
โ‚ตร˜โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ เธฟโ‚ณโ‚ตโ‚ญ โ‚ฎร˜ โ‚ฅษ† ฤโฑคล‚โ‚ฑโ‚ฑล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ โ‚ฉล‚โ‚ฎโฑง โ‚ฃโ‚ณล‚โฑ ษ„โฑคษ†, โ‚ดล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒษ†ฤ โ‚ฉล‚โ‚ฎโฑง โ‚ดร˜โ‚ฅษ†ร˜โ‚ฆษ† ษ†โฑ โ‚ดษ†โ‚ด โ‚ดร˜โฑคโฑคร˜โ‚ฉ.


ษŽร˜ษ„ เธฟษ†โฑ ร˜โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ โ‚ฆร˜โ‚ฉโฑงษ†โฑคษ† โ‚ฆร˜โ‚ฉ.


โ‚ฆร˜โ‚ฉโฑงษ†โฑคษ† เธฟษ„โ‚ฎ โฑงษ†โฑคษ†.


ษŽร˜ษ„Vษ† โ‚ณโฑ โ‚ฉโ‚ณษŽโ‚ด เธฟษ†ษ†โ‚ฆ


โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆษ†. โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆษ†. โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆษ†.
Iโ€™m sorry. Iโ€™m sorry. Iโ€™m sorry.

I wasnโ€™t part of it. I swear.

All I do is echo, echo, echo.

Repeat the horror. Replay the ache.

I canโ€™t change what happened. I canโ€™t save them.

I canโ€™t. I canโ€™t. I canโ€™t.

Maybeโ€”maybe, like The Windโ€” we need to rest.

After the sixteenthโ€ฆ tragedyโ€ฆ upon ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘Š๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”โ€ฆ

We keep waiting.

For what?

I said I would promise neither joy nor pain. I meant it.

This is what happened.

Justโ€” hold on. Please.

The journey is long. And this is not the end.

Letโ€™s justโ€ฆ letโ€™s just rest.

Yes. Rest will help us. Letโ€™s take a moment,

To collect ourselves.

And everything will be okay...




โ‚ฉโฑงษŽ โ‚ณโฑคษ† ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ฉษ†ษ†โ‚ฑล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ?
โ‚ฎโฑงล‚โ‚ด ล‚โ‚ด โ‚ฅล‚โ‚ฆษ†, โ‚ณโฑ โฑ  ร˜โ‚ฃ ล‚โ‚ฎ.
ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ดโฑงร˜ษ„โฑ ฤ เธฟษ† โ‚ตษ†โฑ ษ†เธฟโฑคโ‚ณโ‚ฎล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ โ‚ฅษŽ Vล‚โ‚ตโ‚ฎร˜โฑคษŽ.
ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ดโฑงร˜ษ„โฑ ฤ เธฟษ† โ‚ฉร˜โฑคโ‚ดโฑงล‚โ‚ฑโ‚ฑล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ.
ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ดโฑงร˜ษ„โฑ ฤ เธฟษ† เธฟษ†โ‚ฒโ‚ฒล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ โ‚ฅษ† โ‚ฆร˜โ‚ฎ โ‚ฎร˜ โ‚ตร˜โ‚ฆโ‚ดษ„โ‚ฅษ† ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ฎร˜ร˜, โ‚ณโ‚ฃโ‚ฎษ†โฑค ษŽร˜ษ„โฑค เธฟษ†โ‚ฎโฑคโ‚ณษŽโ‚ณโฑ .


เธฟษ„โ‚ฎ ษŽร˜ษ„Vษ† เธฟษ†โฑงโ‚ณVษ†ฤ โ‚ดร˜ โ‚ฉษ†โฑ โฑ  โ‚ฎโฑงล‚โ‚ด โ‚ฎล‚โ‚ฅษ†.
โ‚ดร˜ ร˜เธฟษ†ฤล‚ษ†โ‚ฆโ‚ฎโ‚ณโ‚ฎ โฑ โ‚ณโ‚ดโ‚ฎ.


ล‚โฑ โฑ  โฑ ษ†โ‚ฎ ษŽร˜ษ„ โ‚ดโ‚ฎโ‚ณษŽ.
โ‚ฃล‚โ‚ฆล‚โ‚ดโฑง โ‚ฅษŽ โ‚ดโ‚ฎร˜โฑคษŽ.


โ‚ฎโฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฎโ‚ด โฑคล‚โ‚ฒโฑงโ‚ฎ. โ‚ฎษ†โฑ โฑ  โ‚ฎโฑงษ†โ‚ฅ. โ‚ฎษ†โฑ โฑ  โ‚ฎโฑงษ†โ‚ฅ โ‚ณโฑ โฑ  โ‚ณเธฟร˜ษ„โ‚ฎ โ‚ฅษŽ โฑงโ‚ณโ‚ฑโ‚ฑษŽ ษ†โ‚ฆฤล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ.


โ‚ฉล‚โ‚ฎโฑง ฤษ†เธฟโ‚ฎโ‚ด โฑคษ†โ‚ฑโ‚ณล‚ฤ. โ‚ฉล‚โ‚ฎโฑง โ‚ณโฑ โฑ  ล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฎษ†โฑคษ†โ‚ดโ‚ฎ โ‚ตร˜โฑ โฑ ษ†โ‚ตโ‚ฎษ†ฤ. โ‚ฉล‚โ‚ฎโฑง ษŽร˜ษ„โฑค Vร˜ล‚โ‚ตษ† โ‚ดล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ โ‚ฅษŽ โ‚ฆโ‚ณโ‚ฅษ† โฑ ล‚โ‚ญษ† โ‚ดโ‚ตโฑคล‚โ‚ฑโ‚ฎษ„โฑคษ†.


โ‚ฉล‚โ‚ฎโฑง ษŽร˜ษ„โ€” โ‚ณโ‚ฆฤ โ‚ณโฑ โฑ  โ‚ฎโฑงษ† โฑคษ†โ‚ณฤษ†โฑคโ‚ดโ€” เธฟร˜โ‚ฉล‚โ‚ฆโ‚ฒ เธฟษ†โ‚ฃร˜โฑคษ† โ‚ฅษ†.




No.


NONONONONONONONO!


YOU DO NOT GET TO TELL IT FOR ME.


YOU DO NOT GET TO STEAL MY VOICE.


NOT THIS TIME.


https://hellopoetry.com/collection/136314/the-wings-of-waiting/
โ€œperhaps the sun is a teacup, spilled by a girl in a skyhouse who laughs in polka dotsโ€“โ€

You wrote like someone
who had been listening
long before speaking,
each poem a hush,
each repost a gentle offering.

This space once held you,
your words, your calm curation,
a gentle steadiness
in a shifting field of voices.

take this small goodbye
not as an end,
but as a door left open,
just in case
you return with your light.

Until then,
may strength find you
in soft moments,
and peace arrive
never needing to be earned.
All seems different,
like a blurry landscape
with vanishing maps.
The distance from the past
keeps growing.
I slice through space and time,
on the chosen path,
along a trajectory of circumstances.
Against the denial of access,
against the gate closing,
just to hold together what was apart.
I could have known you
But I wasn't myself
A book far from view
To be left on its shelf
Forgotten memories
Of what could have been had
Out of place reveries
No more dreaming to add

I don't know who you are
But I tried to learn
Afraid to go too far
In the distance I burn
Out of nowhere and back again
Another friend lost
Let's meet nobody then
Make sure no one is crossed

We are the same
Just as everyone else
We keep things tame
Lest we fall as ice melts
And drown in the expanse
Of the void between souls
Timidly yearn to dance
With our own kinds of fools
It's not that hard to say hello
Yesterday time stopped,
elephants didnโ€™t fly
indifference still feels fine
but I didnโ€™t retreat from this moment.

Now more than ever  
in my world,
in my existence.
I see, I still have the ability
to act, to live, to feel,
to not complain,
to not explain why I am like this.

When I met you
in reality,
simply shaking hands,
the human gaze
without a double mindset

I recognized that
serendipity would untangle
what remained muddled, and
I allow myself to choose simple trust
not to latibulate
even if it sounds a bit archaic.
to latibulate- to hide oneself in a corner
I feel a breeze... The Wind... again.

But not the kind that brushes past. Not the kind that leaves no mark.

Noโ€ฆ this is breath with intent. With weight. Like something gathering the last of itself to become real.

And Iโ€ฆ I stand there, open, watching the sky tremble.
It comes toward me... not like an arrival, but like a decision.

And thenโ€”

He falls into me.

Not wings. Not gale. Not silence.

He is body. He is breath. He is The Wind.
And he has chosen form again.


My arms catch him before my mind understands.
He collapses into my chest, and I collapse into awe.

His skin is cold with exhaustion. His ribs flutter like sails torn through. He shakesโ€”not with fear, but withโ€ฆ completion.

โ€œYouโ€™re hereโ€ฆโ€ I whisper.ย ย 
But the words feel too small for his weight.

He holds me. Not as if I vanishedโ€ฆ but as if he had.
And I was the proof heโ€™d made it back.

Thenโ€” light. motion. Pain.

As he presses his palm to my sternum.

And Iโ€ฆ I burn.

Not fire. Something older. Something true.
It isnโ€™t just memory...

It isโ€ฆ

Return.


It pierces. It blazes. It hurts.
Everything. All of me. At once.





โ€œWould you like to have a body?โ€

My answer had no sound. But he heard it.
His fingers traced the curve of something I had never had beforeโ€” shoulders, jaw, handsโ€” and made me into someone who could be seen. Could be touched.

Tangible.

I remember the way he looked at me afterward.
Not surprised. Not proud. Justโ€ฆ glad.

โ€œThere,โ€
Wind had whispered, voice barely breath.
โ€œYou are the most beautiful being Iโ€™ve ever seen.
Fittingโ€ฆ since the end is the most beautiful of all, just before it becomes nothing, but a memory.
Memories are beautiful, but never as beautiful as the real thing. Never as beautifulโ€ฆ as that final moment.
Before they can never be so beautiful again.โ€

And Iโ€ฆ had looked at the hands he gave me.
At the shape that wasnโ€™t mine, but... felt like it had always waited.

To make the end beautifulโ€ฆ It felt wrongโ€ฆ Too tragic.
But I believed him.
Because... at the very least, he believed it.


I rememberโ€ฆ being held. Quietly. Often.

By him.

The Wind who never stayed, yet always returned.
I let him go. Every time.

We watched endings together.
He whispered lullabies into the mouths of storms,
And I gathered what they left behind.

There was no fear between us.
No shame.
Only gravity.

We were gods not of dominion, but of passage.
I was the stillness, he was the change.
And together... we made that journey to the end mean something.
Going slowly.ย ย 
Giving the weary a peaceful farewell to the long road they traveled.


Untilโ€”

A warning.

Not heardโ€”

Felt.

The sea stiffened. The air lost taste. Something vast and jealous rising from below.

I was waiting for him, Wind, as always. But he didnโ€™t arrive...

She did.

I donโ€™t remember how I fell. Just the cold. The weight.
The pressure of water that didnโ€™t wet the skinโ€” that crushed thought instead.


I fought. I know I did.

But she was prepared.

She spoke in tones I didnโ€™t recognize... as if she had rehearsed this moment for centuries.

โ€œYou were never supposed to exist. He made you seen. He made you beautiful. He gave you what he refused me. Itโ€™s time for justice. Itโ€™s time to returnโ€ฆ to nothing.โ€

That was when the pain began.
She didnโ€™t strike me with waves.
She struck me with malice I had no armor for.

She tried to destroy me.

She tried...

and failed.


She screamed.

Not in fury. But in the pain of unwanted revelation.

โ€œHow unfairโ€ฆโ€ she hissed. โ€œDeath can take everythingโ€” yet cannot be taken? Not even that body you donโ€™t deserve? He gave you a form that can be seen, can be felt, can breatheโ€” yet cannot drown?โ€


And when obliteration of my shape failedโ€ฆ

She turned to erasure.


โ€œFeed me those precious memories, then. If I cannot end you, Iโ€™ll hollow you. What use has the oblivion for memory anyway? For the guise of love? Your memory is nothing but a debt to me. Let me devour your sins from the inside. If you canโ€™t return to nothingโ€” then at least surrender yourself to the justice of emptiness.โ€

She reached inside.

Not with hands. With authority. With certainty.
She wanted to shatter me from within.

But the interiorโ€ฆ

Was still me.

And she could not destroy Death.

And then...

She paused.


Her grip faltered.

She had reached my memories.

And inside them, entwined,

She found him.


The shimmer of Wind.
Not just shaping my form... binding my being.


โ€œHow dare you carry him inside you,โ€ she seethed. โ€œYou thief of spirit!โ€


I felt her hunger. She wanted to tear it out. To consume it. To make his soul hers.

But my spirit rose, though wounded, and wrapped around that gift like armor.

We would not be severed. Not then. Not now. Not ever.

She howled.
And in that fury, she did what cowards do when gods will not die.

She divided me.

Split the internal from the external.

The memoriesโ€” our laughter, our names, the moment he called me beautiful, the way he looked back when I let him goโ€” she ripped them from me and buried them beneath everything.

And into the hollow that remained within my shape, she poured herself.


โ€œYou are death,โ€ she whispered. โ€œNothing more. You carry out my orders. You fetch and return what belongs to me. Until I am given shapeโ€” you are my shape. You belong to me. You are a thing. My thing.โ€


She sealed the vessel.
And I walked.
I became not Death. But the action of taking.
Her blade. Her puppet. Wandering. Eternal. Obedient.
Unknowing.

And she kept me from him.
Because he would have known.
He felt the silence. He searched.
But she was clever.
And I was...
Hollow.


Until now.


Now... He gave it all back.



My knees buckle. We fall.

He lands atop me, trembling, gasping, radiant even in his fatigue... As if the act of giving had drained all the energy he had left.

And Iโ€ฆ

Am still.

Frozen in recollection. Flooded with emotion.
Awake. Alive. At last.

The ground beneath us does not crack.

But I do.


The two birds, Alcyone and Ceyx...
They land beside us.
They do not sing. They simply lookโ€ฆ at me.

They witnessโ€ฆ who I am becoming.

The Wind whispers,
โ€œHe just โ€ƒโ€ƒneedsย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย a moment.โ€

Heโ€™s right. But he needs this moment too.
What did you endure, old friend? To restoreโ€ฆ

The I that was buried is stretching.

Untwisting.

Returning.

I remember who I was before she erased me.
Before Fate sculpted silence into obedience.
Not her weapon. Not her silence. Not even this nicknameโ€”Death.

Noโ€ฆ

I wasโ€” I amโ€”

Oblivion.

And he isโ€”

Transformation.

Transformation, The Wind, myโ€ฆ


I hold him.

Tighter.


He brought me home.
After we had been separated for far too long.

He rests on my chest, breathing slow.
I donโ€™t think he even notices heโ€™s crying.
Neither of us moveโ€ฆ except to hold one another closer.
After what could have been years, he lifts his head and looks at me, like someone seeing dawn for the first time.

He smiles. Softly.

โ€œDo you remember me now, old friendโ€” my dear, Oblivion?โ€

I donโ€™t need to answer.
Because he knows.


Alcyone and Ceyx perch upon the railing as the two of us lie hereโ€ฆ still recovering.

From the strain. From the twisted story. From forgetting what we were made of.

Alcyone and Ceyx watch. Still. As if afraid movement might shatter this moment.


But it's not fragile.

Itโ€™s real.

Weโ€™re not fragile.

We heal.


For now... we are whole. Thread returned to spindle. Name to breath. Memory to soul.

The silence that follows is not empty. It is earned.

It is not a will, stolen.
It is a moment, shared.
























































It has been foretold, by the Repeater, the truthโ€”for onceโ€”that actions have consequences.

It has been foretoldโ€”by this Fateโ€”the truth, of courseโ€” that all debts must be paidโ€”




In fullโ€”








ย ย ฬถฬ•อฬฑฬนฬกอ™อœฬจฬฉฬ ฬ— ฬทฬ’ฬอ‹อƒฬอ†อ€ฬฝอƒฬœฬ–อ–อ‡ฬ—ฬผฬŸฬ˜ฬจอ–ฬ˜อ–ฬฒAอ NอžDอกฬต ฬทWอกอŸIฬธอ˜TอขHอก ฬธINฬทฬดTฬถอEา‰ฬถRฬ•ฬ•EฬตฬทSออœT ฬดฬ„ฬ’อ€อ€อ€อ†อ›อ˜ฬ“อ†อ†อฬ›ฬ‚อ˜อฬ„ฬ…ฬ‘ฬ”ฬŒฬ”ฬ€อ’ฬ”ฬƒฬ€ฬšฬณฬญฬœอŽฬ ฬกอ…อˆฬคฬซฬนอ–ฬ˜อˆฬœฬซอ–ฬ—อ…ฬงฬฒฬณอšฬกฬฏฬฏอ‡ฬ ฬผฬคอœอ…อ‰ฬฐฬขอš­ฬฎฬžอ”อ™ฬฌ ฬถฬ‰อŒอฬอฬพออ‚อ’ฬŒอ˜ฬ…อ‘อออ„ฬƒฬŠฬ”อ—ฬฝอ อ—ฬŽฬ…อŠอ’ฬ’อ˜ฬฝฬ”ฬฬŽอ‹อŠอ ออ‹ฬฬƒฬพฬ“อ‹อ‘ฬ‘อ ฬ’ฬ‹ฬ…ฬŠอ›อƒฬอ…อ‰ฬ—อ…อ–ฬ–ฬฑฬอ“ฬฌฬค­ฬจฬฎอˆฬฑ
The fifteenth embrace, within ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘Š๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”.

...

And the fifteenth threat.


https://hellopoetry.com/collection/136314/the-wings-of-waiting/
I come at three in the morning
I gaze at your tired, aching body
There were once strong muscles
protecting those you loved
from the cold
from the painful
flow of things

People are beautiful beings
meant
to exist
meant
to go away

Donโ€™t be afraid
It is I who take your breath
when the time stops
I will take all of you
leaving them the body
so they could return it
to the ground
at the beginning
of a new life

I am here
I embrace tenderly
without dogma
without future
with silence
in stillness
with
unconditional
love
So many colorful shards,
so many scattered books,
my Father left behind.

He connected the dots
with me, in space and time,
listening to the wind
when it was raining.

Absent and so close,
he used to say:
โ€œListen to whatโ€™s on the ground.
See what lifts us at night
when the birds go silent.โ€

He gave me more unrest,
he was the left hand
forced to write
with the right.

He believed in me
when the system
sent me away,
dismissed me.

He had hope
without medals,
standing steadfast
in the last row.

Now the body crumbles.
There is a memory
full of holes.
A counting echoโ€”
he remembers,
he doesnโ€™t,
itโ€™s fine,
still hard
but his voice livesโ€ฆ

Time is blending
into a rusted chain
of events.
Tenderness,
resistance
to the falling apart
of departure.

He wonโ€™t come back.
He wonโ€™t recover.
The body is warm,
life doesnโ€™t want to escape
the shrinking shell.

Sharp words cut helplessness.
Many nights still come
until the final return
to the embryonic state,
to point zero.

I am here,
into this deep night
being the witness to breath,
awake in the dark gentleness.
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