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THE MYSTERY CITY CHAPTER 109
- The city does not know how to build a routine of life for its citizens. Where you can let go, and where to tighten discipline. What people need for life, so that the picture of the world in their eyes is realistic. What you can subconsciously build in an instant is inaccessible to a living city even after centuries of interaction with people. He needs the right example. The standard that he will play for everyone. For this, - the Man summed up, - he needs someone associated with him. Cities without a head in the form of a witch either suppressed everyone who entered their territory to the state of plants, or did not influence them at all. The oppressed died quickly, the too free united and fled.- And without the inhabitants of the City they perished! Alice finished, returning to her favorite "drawing" of the scar map on the Human's skin. “So, no matter what happens, the City will be on my side?”He needs you more than you need him!“On the one hand, it’s frightening,” she breathed
THE MYSTERY CITY CHAPTER 110
“Look who was released from the Dark Lord’s abode!”Jenny, it's like you've been gone forever!"You ran away from him?!""Come here, I'll kiss you!"- And what is it, the life of the Princess of the Circus?— And what is he, the Man in the Mask?Are you wearing dresses now?Questions, as if from a cornucopia, turned into white noise, to which the Fox was in no hurry to answer with a laugh, only mysteriously fighting back with ambiguous phrases. Warmly hugging her "brother", she did not stop smiling. Having unwittingly become a local star due to a near-scandalous elopement at the Circus, she was uncomfortable with all the attention.- Well well! That's it, let's not try to crush me! she tried to get some space with a laugh, which was only possible with the help of Kenny and Andy. I didn't run away, I just came to say hello. No one is holding me by force, I am releasing myself. Yes, I now go in dresses. No, Patrick, you can't kiss me!— Everything-everything! Give the woman space! - Ken
THE MYSTERY CITY CHAPTER 111
While the Fox was mentally setting herself up exclusively for contemplation of the map with the compilation of a list of further tasks, the Man imperceptibly appeared behind her back. The girl did not even flinch when hot fingers closed around her neck, pressing her back against his chest. Without blocking access to oxygen, without squeezing the thin neck, he held it tightly. Don't break out. But she wasn't even going to try.“Should I put you on a chain so that you don’t run away to the City without a trace?”From his angry whisper, the air in the tent began to sparkle, and from a black wave of rage, his head was spinning. Goosebumps ran down her skin, lifting the hairs on end. It's time for animal horror, but the Fox smiled, blissfully closing her eyes.“I like the chain more than your indifference!” she answered in a barely audible voice, opening her eyes and completely relaxing. “Devil, I believed that you didn’t care!”Sharp reversal. Burying her forehead on her beloved shoulder,
THE MYSTERY CITY CHAPTER 112
Kenny glowed like the North Star, waiting for the Fox to run towards him. The girl did not observe any secret circus etiquette and remained herself in his eyes. Especially when she simply took off without hesitation and ran towards her goal. Even in Lakeside, Jenny seemed to him a bright and whole person, whom he respected for her strong, albeit dark, core.Respect rose after she didn't share the crowd's urge to mock the mutilations of weirdos at a circus show. And when she simply left her nest and fled to the Circus to the dark Lord, he was ready to call Jenny his Ideal. Moreover, after the escape, the girlfriend seemed to become truly herself. The husk of forced compliance with the surrounding society completely flew off from her. And, no matter how happily the guy squeaked from such an arc of her story, he wanted to see her even more than usual.“Yes, I’m just used to the fact that she used to be around, and now I miss!” he waved away, meeting with a smile the worthy daughter of Li
THE MYSTERY CITY CHAPTER 113
The understanding of the unsaid word hung like silence in the tent. As well as the realization that Kenny adores not each of them individually, but the idea of \u200b\u200btheir couple to an enthusiastic peep . Alice could not help but grunt loudly with laughter, breaking into almost hysterical laughter. Burying her forehead against the Human's chest shaking with the same laughter, she forgot both about the map and about the grandiose plans for the Inquisitorial hunt, giving herself up to uncontrollable laughter. Tears welled up in her eyes and her stomach began to ache as she finally caught her breath and staggered out of the hot embrace.“Believe me, not only is he not your rival,” she said giggling, pulling out copies of the map from the tube, “he will also eliminate anyone who violates his ideal picture of the world. And in this picture, you and I should be a couple, and that's it! Lord and Lady of Darkness.“Now I like him too,” the Man winked at her, “as you said, a nice guy!”
THE MYSTERY CITY CHAPTER 114
“Then it’s better not to take anything with you that she can use against us. Under the illusion of imaginary threats, you can kill each other!”“Prepare to hit, and the damage will be less?” she whispered, looking into eyes the color of cut barite. Tomorrow is the thirtieth. Only day and night left!The skin seemed to be covered with frost. Is this all for real? What she does? Hunting a witch? Who would have guessed that life would turn out like this? But just recently, she just wanted to live her life calmly as a dummy of the city with her surviving friends and did not believe in magic and witches. Where does it all go? Where is the girl who froze in horror when she touched the hand of the Great and Terrible Masked Man?Now she, together with the Director of the Satanic Circus, plans to destroy the last surviving witch, in fact, creating genocide. As easily as she sent a witch hunter to a painful death. At what point did that castling take place, at which the terrible City ceased to
THE MYSTERY CITY CHAPTER 115
“Fear has remained in place, my King,” the Fox answered in tone with a smile, softly butting him on the shoulder, “but even if this walk is one way, it doesn’t mean that you can’t seize every remaining moment and ... enjoy life?” Hmm, it seems that I partially inspired this message to the residents of the city. They began to crave more everything that is outside the routine. Although, perhaps, this is not my doing, but their freedom of action was intoxicated.Does the city inspire confidence in our work?“On the contrary, the City in the catacombs is blind, and our idea does not like it,” the Fox answered reluctantly, “it is afraid that I will not return from there alive.” Everyone is afraid ... and what, now they don’t sing songs at all because of this? she was indignant with mischief and continued in a low voice under the silent admiration of the Man:- In spite of the earth's gravityYou send movement to heaven!Be above all obstacles!Sometimes breaks wingsWe fail fearLet you no
THE MYSTERY CITY CHAPTER 116
In the center was the flowerbed that Lis had seen in Claudia's memories. Phytolamps hung over the flowerbed, powered by ordinary batteries standing nearby. The bright purple light of the lamps contrasted frighteningly with the amber glow of the crystals, creating an uncomfortable atmosphere that made the Foxes' skin goosebumps. This place caused a very disturbing feeling from the inside. Something carefully hidden in memory. Not even scary, but very annoying...The small buds of the Black Hellebore stretching out of the ground were not yet ready for use in rituals, but they were in no way inferior to the flowers growing on the territory of the Circus. The fox gently touched the fleshy petal and squeezed it. As if in response to her action, the gray smoke began to move, imperceptibly rising from two narrow corridors of entrance and exit to the center of the cave. The "barrier" holding him receded. A thick purple juice with a familiar sugary-sweet aroma remained on the pale fingers. The