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- Rocky, Rocky took this night!

This news brought forty. Procarkala, dropping onto the fence, cleaned the feathers, flapped her wings, and flew farther away - someone must inform the world.

Liu, a small pale hyacinth, as a classic would say, slumped to the ground. Not that the arrest was a surprise: After that fight, two days ago, when Rocky scattered the corners of a fairly not sober trio who were pestering her guys, she always waited for something like that. Especially when it turned out that one of the hooligans, the one who broke only a hand, the son of the police scoundrel.

The arrest was not unexpected, but it was sad. Justice in the Old Kirk a little leaping, fat, and did not want to catch mice. When it turned out that, thanks to the “coordinated” actions of the local and royal police, the famous market thief Zalka, not only went to inaccessible Ufa, but also grabbed a solid jackpot along the way, the city began to talk about an urgent change of the scoundrel. Justice was taken aback, scared and rushed to do his duty with such zeal that there was no hope for condescension. And if you take into account not only a fight, but also a little boy (he will not forget to add a scoundrel), then Rocky is now bored in the quarries for about five years, or even all ten. And this is a month before the wedding - that's too sad, so sad:

“Oh, sorry for the guy, sorry,” the neighbor sighed. The women standing at the well, looked at Liu sympathetically: “And where do only gods look ?!”

From the Guide to Old Kirk:

“The gods in the Old Kirkas, or rather their copies cut from stone, looked to the north, to the south, to the west and even to the east. There were five gods, and there were four gates, at which the statues were shrouded in attributes, four. Western, the main, went to the main trade route of the kingdom, providing the city and the wealth and mercy of the rulers. They were protected by the Gold River, which is the element of water, commercial, and this was said in a whisper, criminal. In the people, even the saying went: "that a thief, that a merchant is one god." The stately, mighty Rek, hospitably leaned with one hand on the sash of the gate, which not only did not prevent in the case of a siege to close them, but also allowed the deity to be used as an anti-ravine barrier. The right boot of the statue was intended to collect input duties, the left one was equipped under the altar. The water directed by the divinely inspired master of the past through complex tubular curvatures washed the River, giving it a mysterious uncertainty of form and elegance.

Fat Terra ruled over the southern gate, reclining in the first of the luxurious mud baths that occupy the upper tiers of the terrace of the valley that feeds the city and supplies the good half of the kingdom with wine. Marble-naked, muddled goddess patronized winemaking, fertility, fertility, love, marriage and the elements of the earth.

In the east, near the modest shepherd's gates, the sad Spirit, the god of poets, warriors, orphans, sheep, doctors, and air elements, froze in the a la bdi attitude. Open to all winds, he defended the city from this side against the periodic raids of the Khazars (about once a millennium), and in peacetime offered his altar to the shepherds.

Moody, then warm and caressing, then burning, Fortell sat down in a stream of natural fire at the tunnel leading to the mountain mines and being the northern gate of the city. God of fate was not blind, but being a tyrant, he successfully supervised legal proceedings, posthumous punishment and the mining industry. ”

It was to him and went to Liu, a month after the fatal message. The girl was walking, supporting her mother Rocky, and thought that if the Fortell were not changeable, she would be so kind to her fiancé; she would now go right in the opposite direction — south to Terra Binder. On the square at the seated god crowded people.Today, oh, Fortie! and how soon justice will announce the sentence. How many years of separation will they have!

Friends were not visible. Well, lately, Liu was tired of sighing behind her and sympathetic looks. Even the omnipresent Asya, usually corroded by bilious envy, she took to take care of her. Although, of course, what is there to envy. The people on the square are mostly gloomy, onlookers are few. Things are small, not national. Assistant scoundrel read out five sentences - more than that in a day, according to the number of gods. Liu and her relatives, both hard-earned and failed, have been coming to the square for the fourth day, waiting for a terrible word. Oh, Terra Protector, help, mow term that! How many victims have been made! Three rams, a bull, a statuette of golden Japanese, wine, etc. But there is no certainty. At Fortellya of hope, as if on a fire in the fireplace: a little gape and the dinner burned down.

Out of stupor, Liu brought out a convulsive sob of a rocky mother, but for some time no sense of monotonous announcement reached her.

“... the aforementioned Rocky's son Tsybly was found guilty of disturbing public order with serious bodily injuries inflicted on the injured person and desecrating the power exercised in the face of their offspring by brute force, in view of which and in view of the aggravating circumstances, which are systematic late walks , extermination of surrounding dogs, set fire to the shed at: "

- Fair Fortel! What are they about ?!

- What. They found a scapegoat, so all the dogs were hung on it, the helpful whisper suggested.

“... according to paragraph three of the one-hundred and second article of the royal penal code in local reading, the aforementioned Rocky son Tsybla is sentenced to death by the River High Water:”

Further audibility was gone, as well as all other communications with reality. Liu woke up already at home, on pillows. "I saw one," the girl decided, but when she saw the gloomy father, she understood everything with absolute clarity. "Elements! Why! ”Her mother sobbed.

From the Guide to Old Kirk:

“In the center of the city is the temple of the supreme deity, possessing secret knowledge, who does not have his own face and is called the Element of the Elements, the god of aristocrats. In the "amber" games he is credited with the magic of the astral, but adults prefer to pretend that such entertainment they are no longer interested in, and therefore, for the sake of solidity, they rarely recall this hypostas aloud. On the square in front of the portal to the temple rises a huge fountain inhabited by beer and snakes, capable, if taken out of a drunk trance, to break a dog, the size of a dwarf hippo. The portal is connected by arches with two nearest towers of servants River and Terra, from which air transitions run with an openwork ring, linking the town hall, the vassal palace, the three remaining towers, Kirkobank and the armory to the mystical pentagon. The Square of the Five Elements is especially beautiful in spring when the cherry blossoms and the mystery weeks begin:

... The priests live in towers and submit to strict subordination not only in the clan of their god. The eldest is considered to be the High Servant of the Elements of the Elements. ”

Now he was a pious Ina, a gray-bearded old man with a detached face. The sage, who befell the weave of God, an ascetic who did not break with the world only because of the love for those who crawl in it, inspired respect even to the envious and the enemies.

Liu in the last indecision froze in front of the entrance to the tower. The elemental servant lived in appalling accessibility for negligent citizens: it was enough, while making a sacrifice, to whisper a few words to the Servant servant of the servant of God, and for the next victim you received the answer, the day and time of the audience. Liu was not afraid, she thought about everything, and there was nowhere to retreat - not talking to the Great One, she would not go home, but: But the hand hesitated and did not want to rise. Finally, taking a deep breath, the girl opened the massive door and slipped into the darkness of the tower. The shaggy curtain at the end of the corridor drove off to the side, saving Liu from another hell of hesitation. Rime waited for her.A small, rounded room with no windows, a carpet on the floor, candles, a mountain of scrolls and books, bodyguards: a bald smoky wolfhound and an athlete tisilian, equally powerful, imperturbable ...