THE FIRST-BORN

The ocean slowly rolled the green-blue waves. They were rolled on a trimaran, dousing a body of the mighty ship by cheerful splashes. The sun sparkled in sails and wings of albatrosses. Somewhere in the distance the fountain which has been let out by a whale upwards has shot up. The wind did not whistle in ears as the trimaran rushed almost with the same speed, but freshened a skin, brought salty aroma of the sea and far blossoming islands. On a deck the half-naked young man took bewitching sounds from a wooden flute, and the girl danced before it, being bent by a harmonous body. Both have been almost absolutely bared, and to look at them it was very pleasant.
The dragon has inclined a head and has closed eyes. Then Arlo has highly jumped up and it has appeared between hot black nostrils. It reached for eyes of a dragon, but its feet have slipped on nose slime, and it has landed directly before close jaws. To eyes was not to get!
From a player Mozart's music flew, in a lap at me the small volume with Keats's verses laid, nearby on a table there was a glass where it has been poured on two fingers of whisky. Memoirs crowded in my head and sometimes forced to smile. Fine time for the old person.
– Those people who have seized you, even such not ordinary and refined person as Krasitsky, have not thought at all to take this device for studying. Also it is a fine illustration to my point of view. Jack, at each traveller in time is a hit problem precisely during the necessary moment. And only you have approached to the permission of this problem scientifically: has developed the device and has found the company which has made it for you.

She spoke in language of the Ancient Earth, instead of on the galactic. Arlo knew it thanking DZL, but in any way did not expect to hear dead language in live lips.
– I have left it in Istanbul when me have seized. I think, that the people, which steels to live in this house, either have thrown out it, or have taken to pieces with curiosity. I have already made to myself new.
– Yes. We read books Uollisa and listened to its stories. I do not think, that he lay. He the egoist, but in such questions will not lie.

He has woken up with the taken shape decision. Was still early. Morning light falling on high grey roofs of buildings Riv de Goshas, Paris, 1965, same cold, as well as air, which calmness yet was broken by transport movement. In hotel number there was a twilight. Leonsa peacefully snuffled in bed. Its black hair were stretched on a pillow. They all night long spend in a night club, listening to the chansonnier as it wanted Hejvig though Leonsa preferred bright and colourful shows in a music hall. After that they have returned to hotel and long made love, is a little lazy to tiredly, but is tender. Leonsa has not moved at all when some hours at a door have knocked later also the parlourmaid has brought coffee with croissants.
Hejvig thought of th at it with Xenia to get over somewhere in a safe place, for example to Russia or the Western Europe.
However, his parents always seemed sad and not only because one has lost an eye, and another – possibility to move but also therefore, it is probable, that could not forget the first-born which name Arlo never heard. That boy has died in infancy, till birth Arlo. He knew about whom only according to old doctor Bedokura. That is why the letter "And" of the First-born has passed to the second child – differently it would name in another way. Arlo knew, that he is the second son and in the opinion of parents belongs to the second grade though they never about it mentioned – there was no need.

All of them have been dressed equally: dark green parks, the trousers filled in leather boots, helmets, the weapon, a belt with cartridges. He knew these persons better, than the palm. After all it has spent with them many years. Leonsa with wide cheekbones, a convex forehead, sensual lips, which it so often target. CHao, Indhlovu, Guttierez, Belyavsky, Maatuk ibn Pahal. They for an instant have crossed hands and have prepared the weapon as sentries could notice them and give the alarm.
To time for meditation does not remain. The salamander has moved to it for these beings always attack and never recede. It is necessary to battle or run. Under usual circumstances Arlo would escape, but here there was no roundabout tunnel which would allow to bypass it and to continue a way.

But the happy ends are not present. And no ends are present. Nothing comes to an end. However, to us happy instants drop out.
– Listen, – she has whispered, – you will move forward, at morning. Let they will bring to you a breakfast, and then come back here. You have understood? I want, that they considered, that you have run away in the morning. You can move? If is not present, you were lost.
Arlo has led it there. It unsteady short steps has followed it. It guessed, as it could get so far without food if did not eat a luminescence. And as itself did not become food of a predator. The majority of animals kept at some distance from prison tunnels (those were too hot and dry), but it should pass and through other places. While it has not shown also a hint on knowledge of caves.
That has looked to one of narrow cave rivulets, then has hastened along coast. Arlo followed it on water. This site was safe, it here often happened and knew its features. Small kitomeduzy could not attack it, and he would hear a caterpillar from apart.
Their house was empty in the beginning, but in due course it has been arranged and decorated with taste which she has inherited from the father. From a house roof it was possible to see a bay the Gold Horn and walls and domes of Constantinople on other coast. From such distance it seemed the rich, not plundered city.

To time for meditation does not remain. The salamander has moved to it for these beings always attack and never recede. It is necessary to battle or run. Under usual circumstances Arlo would escape, but here there was no roundabout tunnel which would allow to bypass it and to continue a way.
– You sent me basically cards, – I have told. – also has forced me to be fidgety. – after a pause I have asked: – Where you were?
At it was about what to think. He only was surprised, why earlier it has not come to all to it mind. Now he has understood, that in spite of the fact that Uollis and its lieutenants used the newest technics, all of them remained people of the nineteenth century. Here, now he needed to consider properly everything to that he witnessed in what took part.
Hejvig began to move slowly forward in time. When behind a window it became absolutely light, it has stopped, has accurately corrected the cut cable th at the cut has not been swept up, and began to wait. Never before time did not last so slowly.
– If I wished to study deeply civilisation Mauri, to stink, what percent of the truth consisted in stories about it Uollisa, I should get there. I could pretend to be one of inhabitants of islands easily. But what advantage was to the government from one more barbarian. And here to me has co me to mind … – Hejvig has grinned. – you can present, dock? Is not present? O'kej. In the twentieth century I have got party of radioisotopes, like carbon-14 I have hidden them in a reliable place and have gone to the future. Here I became brother Thomas, the person from the far continent, got quite good education. You understand, dock? The basic direction of their researches – purely biological. First, it is caused by necessity of curing of wounds of the Earth and its animal and flora, and in - the second, because a human body – the natural converter of a solar energy. However at Mauri there was no the nuclear reactor making mechenye atoms for researches. Therefore my find would be for them "charisma".