Super Queen-Mother. Book I. The Last Hope
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The evening coolness was coming in. Clouds grew dark. It was time to go back. The small fire burnt out; there was not even a bit of charcoal left.
The friends gathered the trash into a package and set out. The air was cool, and the way down was much easier and faster.
Several times Michael tried somersault, but bumped his back against a creeping burr and after that stopped his peculiar descent of the mountain.
The short stay of the friends at Julia’s was coming to an end; they all had to go home.
The three days that the Earth Keepers gave her to think over what they had told her, were over.
Among friends, the days went by quickly and without being noticed.
In the evening the friends flew away to their homes. Julia saw them off, then closed the iron gates and went down to the house. Nobody even suspected what could happen.
She did not say anything to her friends, because she did not know much herself. What will she do, and how should she act? She did not know who to ask for advice.
Julia was watching some film on TV, but her thoughts were far away. Did she have another way out? No, she did not. She had to do only one thing: to act in a right way in this new real-life situation. Nothing else.
Julia watched the film to the end and went to her bedroom. She was walking around the room for some time, then went to the bathroom and soon went to bed. She was lying for a long time with her eyes closed, mulling over unknown and incomprehensible events that could happen to her. At last, she opened her eyes and said, loudly and positively:
«YES!»
«We knew that!» the familiar voice of the Earth Keepers sounded.
A quiet, pleasant melody filled the room; light multi-colored rain poured merrily from the ceiling. It was impossible to look at that for a long time, and Julia quickly fell asleep.
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