Ruby Chef. Prose in English. Natalia Patratskaya
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girls. Taming obstinate girls was his fad. He already felt that Rima – Venus – the strongest of the girls in the moral and ethical terms.
Chapter 3
Rimma wedged herself in the morning with one stroke of her long eyelashes, as if they had inherited from the big people from her sleep. The sky, covered with monotonous gray clouds, tuned to a calm mood. She walked along an asphalt path, surrounded by bright foliage of civilization, sharply different from meadow grass. Ten steps one way from the trail would guarantee dense thickets of bushes, five steps to the other side would lead to a highway with rounded cars, and only a clean asphalt path was dominated by rare pedestrians.
Life is beautiful, but there is no place for deep laziness and tremendous speeds in it, therefore the path is what makes life prosperous.
Is it difficult to understand simple logic? No, she has her own statistics on the life and condition of people. A person’s condition is not determined by his financial condition, it is determined by his physical condition, which cannot be bought, but can be improved.
Prudence – a thin thread that determines human well-being.
No, Rimma is not perfection itself, but there is something non-trivial about it. She is slender, flexible, with hair slightly below the shoulders, the color of which depends on the mood. Rimma is little different from ordinary people, except for one strange phenomenon that appears in her in moments of laughter or anger – these are rays of light coming from the corners of her eyes. If she laughed, then her eyes shone with rays.
People sometimes deliberately made her laugh to see fireworks of funny rays. But if she was angry, the rays of light changed, they concentrated in the pupils and began to emit strange energy. Sometimes there was a feeling that these rays pierced a person through and could cause irreversible phenomena in his body. She remembered how it all began.
Then the computer Rimma received new data on the state of the banks of the Oriole – the river flowing through the district of Grad. It was then that today she walked past the Oriole car, which simply blocked its way. And on the screen of the monitor appeared the shores of the Oriole, plastered with country houses. Normal coastal landslides split one house or sank another ten meters below the ground.
Rimma could never understand those who built houses on the coastal strip of oceans and large rivers.
The coast can be strengthened by grass, shrubs, small trees, but houses have always contributed to the destruction of the coast. It is clear that the underground forces of the earth are enormous and the shifts of the earth’s crust are normal, but people love to live on the shore, and nothing can be done about it.
Rimma had a strange feeling that the earth’s wife, Aphrodite, was present on the Lord God on Earth. It is she who does not allow swallows to live in the coastal zone. You might think that the processes in the earth’s crust occur by themselves, but you can think differently, and this has its reasons.
What does Mrs. Aphrodite look like? This question unwittingly interested Rimma. I wonder how old she is? As much as Earth? What did she do in the time of the dinosaurs? Then surely no one built houses on the coastal slopes of the Orioles.
Here, on the East Peninsula, he scored a new geyser. And everything is simple: Mrs. Aphrodite liked the man who followed her geysers, and during his lunch she threw out a stream of water in front of his beautiful eyes. This is certainly the work of a woman!
Rimma shivered involuntarily when her leader, a man of no age named Andrei G. Shchepkin, approached her. He looked at the monitor screen, noticed geysers instead of landslides on the bank of the river and looked at Rimma in surprise.
– Rimma, explain where geysers come from on the river bank? – He asked, leaning closer either to the monitor, or to the golden hair.
“Andrei Georgievich, the thought came to me that landslides on the river bank were the work of Mrs. Aphrodite and geysers were hers,” Rimma said, defending the geysers on the screen.
– Exactly! And how no one had ever figured it out before! – Andrei Georgievich cheerfully exclaimed, radiating ridiculous rays around the eyes, and strictly added: – Your job is to predict landslides, when and where they can be waited and warn the population of the planet about the danger!
– So I am about that! – exclaimed Rimma. – It is necessary to find Mrs. Aphrodite and ask her what else she is going to do, where she outlined earthquakes. Why does she like to shake the earth?
– Here’s a smart girl, you can not collect everything in one pile. Although with me there was one case. You want – believe, you want – no, but it happened in the same house, now destroyed by a landslide. My friend and I arrived on a regular business trip to a city located on the banks of the Orioles. We settled at the young mistress, a very perky little lady. I tried to flirt with her, and she said only two words: “Sleep alone.” The next day there was a strong earthquake in the village with the same name.
– Here! And I’m talking about you! – exclaimed Rimma. – So it was Mrs. Aphrodite herself! You saw it yourself! And I do not believe that it exists. “In some cases, the layers of earth, located on the sides of the fault, approach each other. In the others, the earth falls on one side of the fault, forming discharges. In places where they cross river beds, waterfalls appear. The vaults of underground caves crack and collapse. It happens that after an earthquake large areas of land are lowered and flooded with water. The tremors shift the upper, loose layers of soil from the slopes, forming landslides and landslides, “Rima remembered these words, but someone is in charge of this! “You wanted to get close to Mrs. Aphrodite on the evening of December 6th, and she arranged a massive earthquake!” Andrei Georgievich, you are a monster!
“Exactly, that was exactly then,” Andrei Georgievich said in surprise, lifting his hair with a dyed gray hair.
– I just want to ask: what did you do on April 25? To whom did you pester the young man? – assertively asked Rimma.
– Rimma! In the spring I was full of strength and energy. I was a passionate, recalcitrant, unbroken stallion. But I remembered! I was then carried away by one girl, very similar to that lady from the bank of the Orioles, but much younger.
– Ale, Andrei Georgievich! I’m scared! Have you met her again? What is her name? – scared asked Rimma, realizing that in front of her was the man who had personally seen Mrs. Aphrodite. Whatever name she hides. – And now she reminds you of herself by landslides on the banks of the Orioles!
– Not! – with fear in his voice exclaimed Andrei Georgievich. – I am afraid to meet her, she will say two short words – and then destructive earthquakes occur.
– Andrei Georgievich, you are a great connoisseur of the dynamic chaos of the Earth with a butterfly effect, introduce me to Mrs. Aphrodite! – exclaimed Rimma with eyes burning with admiration, sparkling from the rays of her own light.
– Rimma, do you think that you offer me? Where will I find Mrs. Aphrodite? And why do we need it? Turn on the news, fast! – Andrei Georgievich looked at the screen and exclaimed: – THIS IS IT!
“Etna,” she said. – Look in the credits. Then there was a volcanic eruption. Now I know what Lady Aphrodite looks like!
Andrei Georgievich perfectly knew Mrs. Aphrodite. He felt her through time and distance. But what to say, they were always familiar. This Rima has good abilities, she is a very insightful person. How she deftly caught the chain of events, which he himself guessed, but he was afraid to draw an analogy!
Schepkin once graduated from university. At that far time he was smart and handsome, and then he met Mrs. Aphrodite. How clever Rima figured it out! Aphrodite at a time when Andrei Georgievich had only the right to drive, had a luxury car. Where she took it – not known, but it looked marvelous. The last thing he thought about was that she was involved in earthquakes,