Wandering Spark - Part 54
The wind continued the work of water. It was gnawing the stones and blowing away the salt. Clover said something, but Varan only heard from him the second time:
"A pocket in the rock... inaccessible during the season... look the place, you must recognize it..."
Trying to breathe deeply and smoothly, Varan slipped from the saddle. For a long time, he chose a place where to put his foot. It smelled of algae. On dark stones, mollusks in tightly closed shells were dying without water.
"It's not here," he heard his own voice.
"And where?"
"This is the third arch. And we need the "stone garden". There," Varan waved his hand.
"It is far? Shell we fly there?"
Plaiters fell one after another into the abyss. The feel of falling was familiar to Varan, but it remained one of the most unpleasant his sensations. A second before the collision with the ledge of a rock the birds spread their wings and rose abruptly to the zenith. The emperor is a witness, Varan thought with his eyes closed. Such tricks with a rider on the back, and this bird doesn’t break its back? It’s magic...
Plaiters again dived under the cornice and established themselves on a rock. Varan for a long time looked around, trying to find out the place, and having recognized, wrinkled:
"We need to return..."
"Fly?"
"We'll miss again," Varan shook his head. "Let’s go from rock to rock..."
"Will we get there by land?"
"I don’t know…"
The magician walked first, Varan behind him. They moved from one ledge to another and gradually climbed higher and higher. The wind wore snippets of conversation, sounded against the wall. Sometimes it seemed to Varan that his words, echoed back, touch his ears before he can say them.
"It's smooth here, we need to go right..."
"Can you see the sea level?"
"What is it?"
"I cut myself, here are seashells..."
Having reached the "garden", they both stopped on a narrow ledge along the rock.
"Can you fly?" Varan asked in a low voice.
"No," the magician answered after a moment's thought. "But I can levitate without support for a few seconds. This isn’t called "flying. This is an extreme case... if you're wondering what will happen if we fall."
"I thought you could," Varan confessed. "I thought, now you will fly down and find a hiding place."
"Those who hid the money don’t fly as well," the magician looked at his palm. The deep cut at the base of the thumb was almost healed. "We'll fasten the rope, and I'll come down there and see.".
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