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Friend (part 2)
“Thank you, Mr. Director,” she answered with a restrained, but slightly worried tone – as you know, a month ago, the inhabitants of Antrum handed us an egg of a mossy dragon under the guardianship. According to our calculations, the baby had to hatch the day before yesterday, the deadline – today.
– As far as I know, this is a rare, but normal phenomenon among dragons, when the cub recesses later. Why worry? – asked Maximus.
– I remember when I was like our students, the elderly said that later the hatching of the dragon was not good.
– And why is it, master Flebius?
– Yes, Maximus, I just remembered ..
“Well,” the caretaker interrupted, “the account went literally for the watch, and if the dragon does not hatch in the near future, he can just suffocate in the shell.
– But this is already serious … I will smoke? – Maximus took a pipe from the pocket of the mantle.
– As a director, I forbid you! You are in the nursery, do not poison the local inhabitants with smoke! Yes, and Mrs. Istund did not tell the most important.
– This is “the most important” you better see with your own eyes. Follow me, please.
The meeting went to the incubator, into which the caretaker of the nursery peered tensely. Nearby stood an apparatus in the shape of a cube of opaque glass. Heating tubes passed along the faces of the unit, and a control panel with several buttons, a fan and a round handle stuck out on the side. It was a little more than an incubator.
-There are still no cracks. – without waiting for questions, notified Mr. Istund. – ”The developer” is ready for work. I start?
– Yes, dear, start.
The caretaker took the same cube and put it on the incubator. Then Mr. Istund several times vigorously scrolling the hilt, from which the device puffed up, and pressed a few buttons. The ”developer” was filled with light, and a shadow from the egg appeared in the center.
– And where is the embryo? – Flebius wiped his eyes and looked at the apparatus.
Maximus mechanically reached for the tube, but stopped short and asked the caretaker:
– And you can touch it?
Teachers carefully felt the egg, quietly knocked on it.
– Of course, the sound is more https://sistersitescasino.co.uk/casinos/bally-casino/ deaf, but everything is perfect to the touch.
– Yes, it’s anxious. But I have a question – Maximus turned to the director – Mr. Kelebriy, than in this situation we can help us looking?
-I put forward a crazy assumption: perhaps the egg came to us through a knot from some parallel world. And if so, it can be an egg of both another type of dragon and another creature. I attracted you to develop this version.
“Yes, the situation, however …” Maximus summed up.
And during the consultation in the room, Katorin Wilsley summed up the results of his brother’s story.
– That is, you, the fool, made an exact copy of the egg, then it is not clear how you crept into the nursery, replaced the egg, informed it, without breaking, and hid it in his chest. And at the same time you managed not to give out yourself and not to talk to anyone. So, brother?
– Almost. You forgot to add that I turned all this at night in a record twenty minutes, which is very fast for such a large -scale operation.
– Great! Well, I could say. – patted on the shoulder of the gnome Maxi. -And with the bagel, what will we do?
– And let us ask Flinnli we will ask. – frowned the eyebrows with a pus – well, brother, and how you were going to care for him further? Hide all the time in a chest, and when it grows up, in the closet? And when he already stops going into the room – on the roof?
“I didn’t think …” the other brother pulled his gaze – I just wanted him to be sad and lonely, that’s all ..
Katorin made a sigh of tenderness, the rest simply sighed, without any emotional color.
– Eh … good soul, brother … – Villey softened. – Okay, it is more important for us to come up with what to do with it now.
– First, reassure and feed the baby. – said Frenkias. – Madam, what would you do for this?
– I would give him bark of oak chopped. He will eat and calm down himself.
– In the yard, the oak is just growing! – Aveduria showed from a window to a tree. – True, what to tear off the bark?
Fendrum began to sort out the options:
– You can, with your hands, you can comb your hair, you can with a training sword, you can with a fork, you can ..
– I have! -Flynnli, it turns out, managed to go to himself and return with the bag-I was preparing. Well, here he went to the dragon, who had already mastered a little and crawled around the room, sniffing everything around, and held out his palm with a small amount of bark, – Bulk, look that I have here. Want?
Dragosha instantly smelled of goody and instantly devastated the gnome palm.
– I know, baby, this is not enough. Now there will still be … – with these words Flynnli handed the bag of Wilsley, because he stood closer to him. – Here, I still have here. Take a little bit, feed it so that you will not be afraid. Just a whole portion will be typed for him.
The bagel ate with pleasure, and then curled up on the bed of Katorin and sniffed sweetly.
– What, however, a wonderful day. And the dragon was fed, and from the lessons we were released early. – Maxi stroked the sleeping reptile, and then looked at the guys puzzled. – And in honor of what we have a shorter day?
“Master Kelebri said something about the nursery … And something about an urgent and serious thing …” Frencias said thoughtfully.
A pause hung again
-So why they gathered there. Nobody hatches from the egg, so they were worried. -Fendrum straightened his glasses, went to the center of the room and announced:-Gentlemen are the future looking, attention, the question: how do we return the dragon to the incubator, where all the adults gathered, who can do something and get to the truth at any moment?
– I think you must first see what is happening there, and then decide. – suggested Willey.
– Aveduries, you can climb out of that tree on the roof?
– Easily! I will see you from there, and you. I will sit down where the masters will be.
– Great, then go there, and I will try to get to the nursery.
– I will spend you: I know where you can cut it unnoticed. – picked up Flynnli.
– And Katorin and I will then get in the rooms so that it is not clear that the bagel was lusting here. – Frenkias rolled up his sleeves.
– In five minutes we are going here, I will think for now how you can do it all. – Fendrum took a thoughtful pose.
Five minutes later in the room Katorin.
– He continues to observe, lady, now he will go down. Judging by his signal, everyone left the library. – reported Flynnli.
– Everything except Mr. Istund. He does not take his eyes off the incubator. – added Willey.
– So everything is simple. – Katorin got into the center of the room. -Someone somehow distracts the caretaker, someone somehow endures the bagel, and someone looks after the library and, in which case, somehow distracts teachers.
-Now it remains to come up with who is someone and how to do it somehow. – Fendrum again importantly corrected glasses.