The boys were moving cautiously toward the exit when a monster appeared in their path, a tricolored dragon, with a porcelain mask of an elder on its face. The monster looked as if man and dragon had merged into one creature, merged ineptly as if just some force had pressed the man into the dragon's maw mid-body. The boys screamed. The masked elder smiled, stretching a slit from ear to ear.
And then the world disappeared.
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But a new one appeared. Gray, dim, like the yellow-gray portraits of the dead that were in every house in Theorann.
The boys looked around.
– What is it? – Girim asked.
– I don't know, maybe we're dead? – suggested Maley.
– That monster killed us, and now we're in limbo. That's clear, – Taris sighed.
– What was that? Did Mr. Rumu really torture people? – Maley asked.
– It's a devil's circus and Mr. Rumu is a sorcerer, – said Taris confidently, -I heard him say it's for candy, the bones will go for candy, they make candy from people and sell them to ordinary people!
The boys exhaled fearfully, even forgetting that they themselves were also victims of some terrible magic.
– And now he's put a monster on us because we've seen so much. And he sent us to this afterlife, – Taris continued. He had unwittingly taken on the leadership role that Desti or Hakeem usually played.
Maley grunted.
– My parents will kill me if I don't come home tonight. I've got Loska to milk.
– Look, we're stuck in the afterlife and you're worried about a goat! – Taris was outraged.
– But the goat has to be milked! – Maley argued vehemently.
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Short StoryThese are short stories, small stories, excerpts from books on arts of Ol Albireo. Here are mysticism, science fiction, fantasy, novels. Here are the diamond city and worlds under the rule of Emperors. Magical and, seemingly, ordinary.