Trilogy of Dhana and the Earth. Book two. War with reptilians. Andrey Prudkovskii
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Now they would like to come to the surface, but they are afraid of us – people. And not without a reason! Human has an inborn aversion even to the appearance of these creatures. I see that their thoughts prick you like needles. Alas, people are incompatible with them. They can help, but only for their own benefit. Try, contact them – it won’t be any worse! Do not even think about asking them for something! If they need anything, they will ask themselves!”
After a couple of days, I still managed to contact them. The sizzling guest crawled right into my thoughts – slippery, rummaging around … I accepted him and showed him all our plans. He returned a week later and hissed:
“We agree.”
“How many of you?”
“They know! And you don’t need to know that!”
I was glad when he disappeared from my thoughts.
Meanwhile, real winter has come. Time to sour cabbage and play snowballs. Terra and I first saw skiing and ice skating. We had nothing like this on a farm in childhood. Soon I mastered both of these devices. But Terra didn’t want to. In general, lately she has somehow become sad, and her character deteriorated right at once. Every now and then her demanding voice was heard:
“Fedka – there! Fedka – here! Bring that! I want this!”
Fedka ran like crazy. And I looked and was surprised. I never knew that my sister has such habits. And no one stopped her, neither the lathered Fedka, nor Rin. And granddad – so he also smiled!
This winter, I became very close with Rin. He was the one who taught me to ski and skate. He and I took a long ski trip to that shaggy one. I warned Rin in advance where we were going so that he would not be scared. And not in vain! The view of the forest monster was really creepy! But the thoughts were calm. I heard them like this:
“Well, why are you coming to me?”
I tried to explain our problems to him, but he closed his thoughts and quietly disappeared behind the trees. As Radogast warned, I did not succeed with him.
A couple of months passed, and finally something wonderful happened – a quiet, gentle voice found me:
“Good business, girl! We are all with you!”
“Who are you and how many are you?”
“There are three hundred and seventy-seven of us, not counting the children.” We are near you, but not quite here. And our village is called Kitezh grad. And there are seventy-seven of such secret settlements on the Earth. We will let everyone know the news, and all of them will support you on the day of voting!”
Rin
All the same, what scoffers are girls in our village! While we were children, it was so good to play together. And then as if something had happened to them – and you won’t go outside without hearing teasers from your former friends. You can’t just approach them, everyone has become just impregnable. When Bess has come to us, my life changed for the better. Together with her, I went to Mute and listened to the amazing stories through her. And once, going out into the street, I heard another teaser, sung in a sweet girlish voice:
Rinchik walked with Bess,
Rinchik kissed with Bess!
And then I thought – why not, because I like Bess. And she treats me completely differently from the rest of the guys in the village, and by age we are about the same. And the girls will stop teasing me if Bess and I have everything for real. One evening I went to Bess and laid out to her all my boyish thoughts. She laughed.
“Nothing will come of it! Do you even know how to check whether a girl suits you or not?”
“No, I don’t know, and how?”
“Very simple. Take my hand and say what you feel.”
I took Bess’s hand. It was very cold.
“Are you cold?”
“No,” said Bess, “I just don’t want to work as a stove.”
“I cannot do that. My hands are always warm.”
“Don’t get distracted,” Bess reminded, “tell me what you feel now?”
“Nothing special … I feel your chilling hands … And what should I feel?”
“If I were your girlfriend, you would definitely feel something.”
“My girlfriends are not here, they all laugh at me! They say that I’m still small.”
“If you just need to prove something to your friends, you can stay here for the night. I usually don’t sleep in bed. From childhood, I got used to go out of the house for a night and sleep somewhere in the thicket of the forest. No matter how much they scolded me, they never taught me to sleep humanly.
“Bess, you are different,” I said.
“Of course,” Bess answered me, “the same thing Mute says, he also says that my beloved will be different either, and that he will come soon.” With these words, Bess stood up and quietly slipped into the darkness. I was left alone in her room. Woke up in the morning, Bess, humming, changed clothes. Then we left the room together, frightening Fedka. Now the whole village will know that I was with Bess. Fedka – he doesn’t know how to keep secrets.
After breakfast, we walked with linked arms to the house of the Mute. The girls looked at us from all windows, flattened noses behind the glasses were visible everywhere, but there was not a single child on the street. I was proud of myself! Then no one dared to say that I was still too young!
That time we asked the Mute to tell us what interesting have happened on Earth over the past thousand years and how it turned out that all power was in the hands of aliens.
“Call him Radogast,” Bess corrected me and began retelling the history of our planet.
“As you know, for the first 300 years after the end of the world the Emperors of Khem country ruled on Earth, which is far to the East of us. And the Emperor had a wise adviser from aliens – Gilk the Wise. He was not only wise, but also almost immortal. And until now, he would probably be alive; still everything is done according to his advice. But people of the country on the far Western continent did not like this adviser; they did not want to admit the results of the universal vote and decided to overthrow the rule of aliens. Moreover, they had an undeniable force in the form of a rocket with a neutron bomb that could wipe out an entire continent. So they would have canceled the alien rule, because aliens are not allowed to kill the original inhabitants of Earth, but there happened a terrible eruption of a volcano on that Western continent. And this eruption was so powerful that the whole mainland became deserted. Well, we have had difficult years too. The first year was of heat and fires, then three years of frigid weather. Then the aliens took care and fed everyone with concentrates, warmed us up with their eternal generators, so that they deserved great gratitude from the entire surviving population of Earth!
Since then people started talking that aliens are arguably able to do everything, aliens are the main thing for us … And aliens have started their unknown activities. Under the pretext of teaching “illiterate” earthlings alien schools appeared … Those who managed to graduate and successfully pass the exams are called sapiens since then and those who failed are called homos. And the rest, uneducated are simply savages. By the way, these sapiens, even though they have abilities, knowledge, and telepathy have lost a lot. They are pathetically obedient; they can neither fight nor swear. So when the aliens decided to shoot emovideofilms about life on the “wild planet Earth”, they had to organize fighting units from the homos. Well, they didn’t have to persuade our people, they would only be excited to fight. But sapiens are also necessary: for work in factories, for space flights … So every month they fly around the Earth on their saucers and listen to thoughts. If anyone “thinks out loud”, they would