“What does it mean by the sword?” And how terrible is this war if all of humanity is afraid of it?

- The people of my world are afraid of the last war, capable of destroying all life on the planet ...

- End of the world? We also have such predictions.

- This is not a prediction. The most powerful powers in the world have nuclear weapons - terrible death instruments that can destroy hundreds of thousands of people at a time. - the word “nuclear” Nastya singled out with special intonations in her voice, after a short silence she added, “And there are so many of these weapons that their use is capable of killing all life and destroying what people have built in ten thousand years of their civilizations.”

- How is this possible? Even demons cannot cast such destructive spells!

- Humanity in my world does not know magic ...

- Especially!

- ... but people discovered many secrets of existence, and began to take advantage of them. Primarily in the interests of war. So sixty-three years ago a nuclear bomb was invented. Its essence ... although you can hardly understand or believe ...

- And you tell me! - With these words, he licked Nastino's shoulder, she gently stroked his thigh in response.

“Well, all the matter of existence ... at least in my world ... consists of tiny particles — molecules, those of very small indivisible atoms. Compounds of identical atoms existing in nature form, for example, iron, silicon, gold, and silver. If they are atoms of iron, silicon, gold, silver, respectively. An atom consists of a nucleus and electrons rotating in different orbits, around the center - the nucleus. In atoms of different substances there is a different number of electrons. In gold one quantity, in lead - another. The nucleus consists of protons and neutrons. And if you divide the nucleus of the uranium atom (this is such a stone that emits invisible harmful rays), then such a huge amount of energy will be released that it will be able to destroy a small city with a population of one hundred thousand inhabitants.

- A hundred thousand is a small city !? - Atla asked shocked

- Yes, we have a large city is one in which several million inhabitants.

- How can you feed so many people !?

- The science.

- What?

- Secrets of things that people grasped ... it's a long story.

“Secrets like these nuclear weapons?”

- Something like that.

They lay silently. Attul was thinking about her world, Nastya about his world and what her further fate was.

- Listen, what should I do? - Anastasia asked when she could not find a use for herself.

- In terms of?

- How do I live in your world? What to do? Where to live?

- What can you do?

- Well nothing. I can practice yoga. I write poems. Well, then ... in the art of what you could see at night and in the morning. - Nastya slyly looked over her shoulder, Athle grinned and licked her cheek again.

- Well, you can teach the local people this yoga. Only I think with this you will have to go to the soldiers, the ordinary people have nothing to do with it.

- I do not want to people, and even living in a deep primitive past centuries!

- If you are satisfied with the situation ... mm ... partner Ashkhulaya, then you can be taught the art of the bard and the narrator. You pay for the shelter, food and training with your body and you can continue to live on your own, earning money.

- I am ready to be your partner forever! ... And right now ...

- Again! - asked atlou in horror

- I'm an insatiable wolf! - Athleu again grinned and stroked Nastya on the stomach, going up to the breasts, only after that he said:

- I am poor. I can not take you to the content. I live hunting, spending most of my time in the forest. - with these words Nastya noticeably faded. When she spoke, her voice was disappointing:

- And to whom will you give me?

- My good friend - bard ..

“And-and-and ... does he agree to take me on such terms?”

- He is painfully eager for human women. Because of this addiction, they want to execute him in some human cities. Therefore, he has to hide in the local desert places where hermits like me, outcasts or pirate gangs live, who supply human slaves here.

- There is a slave !? - due to Nastya's puzzled, frightened cry, Attlu realized that they had a rarity in the world, or even a relic of a distant past.

- In fact, ashhulay is forbidden to have a human slave, but slavery is common in the empire.

- And we are now in the empire?

- In one of its remote corners, next to the reservations of some ashhulay tribes.

“And I will be the slave of this friend of yours?”

- Of course not! - Nastya puffed displeased, fidgeted and finally stood up abruptly with the words:

- Well, where does this friend live?

Part Four

“Wait for me here, do not catch anyone’s eye, do not speak to anyone, I will bring you clothes” - with these words, Attle walked down the path, towards a large building with many outbuildings and barns, which he called a “tavern”. The path led through the forest for about forty meters, then ran out into the open space and poured into a wide road laid a hundred meters from the edge of the forest. The building was located on the side of the road, right next to the road. The view from here was not bad, though through the branches of bushes and tree trunks. Nastya was standing on a hill overgrown with wood. In the courtyard of the tavern, some figures walked out, one caravan of carts passed along the road, moving somewhere to the right.

Twenty minutes later, Athla returned, accompanied by his friend. Who else could he come with? Nastya was amazed, a friend was so different from Atla that she seemed to come from one of the five moons. Up to this point, Anastasia thought that Ashkhulai was the conquered Atlu people. But now she has a suspicion that the Atlu tribe is not the only ashhulay tribe. He was a little lower than Attul, he was also a humanoid, half-falcon, half horse. From the belt had two horse legs, modified for upright walking, monolithic hooves with a spread (long hair around the hoof, like a heavy truck). The tail, also horse, is bandaged with a white cloth at the base. Here is his beautiful tail - at once he caught his eye on himself: silk, shiny, black. The muscular torso was, in a special way, wrapped in an orange cotton rag. This canvas was wrapped around the neck like a scarf, crossed on the chest with a cross and then somehow imperceptibly passed into the belt, covering the genitals and falling down with beautiful folds on the left thigh, closing the leg almost to the hoof. The arms were well developed, but not excessive. The wrists were elegant and long, with neatly trimmed claws. Wings. Yes, he had wings. Big like an angel. Feather gray, on the tips turned to black. The head is avian, it seems falconry, instead of a face a beak, on top of it were standing ears, like a horse, only wider. On the forehead and crown, the head was covered with small gray feathers, and from the back of the head grew long hair to the shoulders. The neck, torso and arms were covered with gray fur of medium length, while the legs were covered with short gray in apples undercoat, like in horses. The radial part of the hand and wrist is completely without fur, only the skin, oily shone with its anthracite blackness, but on the elbow bend there grew a long two-color fur: at the base of the hair is gray, and on the tips - black. It ... Read more →