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“Well, Cat…” Darkness shook his head indignantly. «I told you to shut up!!»
The cat just sighed. He stroked his ass, pierced by spears, and lowered his head.
— Okay. — Darkness sighed heavily. — What is there. Went!
And they went. Slowly, carefully, now and then looking around.
“Maybe we are that… that…” suggested the Cat and made a gesture of jumping.
“You can walk with your legs,” Darkness snapped.
— Well, are you still angry?
-Not.
-Darkness…
— Okay! — Darkness snorted. Really, what is there to discuss. So they will go for three days. He extended his knee, and the Cat instantly climbed onto his back. However, the jumps did not last long. Gloom jumped out into the clearing and stumbled, stretched out to his full height. The cat rolled head over heels right into the bushes.
— Hey!!! — He immediately jumped up. — What are you doing???
“I don’t know.” Darkness struggled to get up, but could not. The strength left him. And at the same time, it became quite clear that something terrible had happened. Something that he had thought about even then, when his back ached so terribly from the hatchet that hit it. What I did not want to believe, and what I was afraid to think about. Here, in this time, the religion of one God and his eternal opponent the Devil did not yet exist. The local people did not suspect the existence of angels or demons. They did not believe in them. And faith, as you know, was the source of strength.
— Well, what are you doing, get up! — The cat was frightened.
He himself felt how quickly his strength was fading away. But still he hoped that they would have time to return to their own time before they completely disappeared.
-Nothing, nothing.- Darkness sat down heavily. — Now.
-Let’s go slowly. We’ll make it! The cat encouraged him.
“And if not?” Darkness sighed.
— And it is necessary that YES !! — the Cat barked.
He knew perfectly well that he would not have to explain anything to anyone, but he wanted to cheer up his friend. Let him remember that they have a family, and for her sake it is worth trying! He looked back at the mountain, which had gotten a little closer, but still seemed terribly forbidding.
-Let’s go! — Commanded the Cat, and the first went forward. Darkness, walking heavily, followed him.
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The professor fell right on the artifact table. The leader fell from above and crushed the unfortunate archaeologist with his considerable weight. He wheezed, twitched his limbs, the table creaked menacingly, something crunched and the legs gave way. The Professor yelled, the Leader rolled to the side and immediately jumped up. The professor jumped up too. He looked around frantically. He is at home!! For a long minute, the professor considered this news. The leader was more practical. He jumped up, looked around and ran into the forest, like a bunny, dodging and confusing his tracks.
— Hold it! — the professor came to his senses and rushed after him. Colleagues — archaeologists, that all as one froze with their mouths open, rushed forward, but not for the Leader, but for the professor, who returned as suddenly as he had disappeared. They surrounded him and intermittently asked about what had happened. At first he resisted, and wanted to give chase, but then he cooled off and began to talk about his incredible adventures.
“But where is that stone?” One of his colleagues asked.
-Stone? The professor stamped his foot angrily.
The stone after all remained with the Leader !! Scientists rushed into the forest, it was necessary by all means to catch and study both the Neanderthal man himself and his magic stone. And none of them saw that Leshy froze at the table like a living statue. He was so surprised, even at his age, that he completely forgot about disguise. He shook his shaggy head and rushed in the other direction. Unlike scientists, he remembered well where the strange man had fled. By the way, it’s not that far. The leader was buried in lush bushes of hawthorn, which, it is not clear how, grew right on the bank of a small river. He tried not to give himself away, but he was so frightened that he was shaking, and the bush was shaking with him.
— Well, get out. Whoever you are! — Shouted Leshy. And he could not believe his eyes when an old acquaintance got out of the bushes. — Baaaa. Is that you?!
— You?!!? — The leader rushed to Leshy on the neck, as if to his own, even though in the old days they were not very friendly.
Goblin waited as long as it took for the leader to calm down a bit and ordered him to tell him everything. He was already looking forward to how he would take him to the Cat and the Gloom, and they would certainly figure out what had happened and how to fix everything. But as the Leader confusingly talked about the events of the past days, Leshy became more and more gloomy. This is still not enough!
-Let’s go. — He resolutely pulled the Leader behind him, dragging him towards the village. Hope remained only on Bagheera, but the house met them with empty eye sockets of windows.
-Okay. OK. Let’s wait for the morning. he sighed. He found the key under the porch and opened the door. — Come in. We will be guests.
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