Continuation...
The girls were looking at each other without hiding their rage. Alice wanted to know the truth, and her rival just wanted to get away from here. And it seemed that now they would cling to each other if from behind the back of their defender did not seem to be the head of the most afraid girl. Fear read in her eyes, her voice trembled, but she tried to look confident:
- So it was you who ran to the road, and the cat saved your life?
Alice blushed a little, feeling ashamed. But as she realized, the cat was the name of the strange girl. The heroine couldn't say a word, so she nodded.
- Oh, how great! - Fear had completely disappeared from the eyes of a fragile creature, and joy had come in his place,- said the cat, saying that you were the one who had finally enabled her to learn to control the magic of her soul vault!
This time it's time to blush the cat. And she seemed as ashamed as Alice. But when she came to her senses, she shouted at the helpless girl:
- Do you want to tell a stranger all about us?
- Oh, I'm sorry,- The girl tapped her head.
- Look, Alice, - Cat sighed, trying to calm her fervor - I understand that you're curious about something magical and inexplicable, but there are things you don't want to know for your own good.
Alice felt she couldn't hide all her anger anymore, which would now scream at the whole park. Can any magic cause suffering? It's just a power that makes you better than anyone else! It's what children dream of! They just want to distinguish themselves from others! That's all!
- I'm asking you,- Alice took control of herself out of her misery. - I just want to know something new and unusual! My life is already boring, so maybe your magic will dilute it! I don't want to own it, I just want to know it!
There has come a deadly silence. No one knew what to say. And only the girl's quiet mooing in a sundress, which was once bright and beautiful, was clearly and distinctly heard.
- My name is Cat,- the girl introduced herself, trying to make her tone friendly. - And we call this little lump of brown hair "The Blue Lump". There is also a Dog and a Snake from our team. If the Dog can still understand your desire to learn our power, the Snake is one of the reasons why you should not appear in our gang. I think he's going to kill me first for letting you find us, and then he's going to come after you," she said. - It was a joke, silly.
- So you're not alone with that power? - Alice was surprised.
Only now the girl was able to notice on the chest of Pigeons almost the same amulet as the cat. Only it shone not in red, but in grayish color, and the form was not in the form of a cat, but in the form of a pigeon. "So they give themselves these strange nicknames by the shape of these amulets!" - Alice guessed it.
- Of course, she wasn't alone,- the cat snorted. - But maybe, besides our gang, there are also people with these vaults of the soul. But, unfortunately, we do not have the strength to pass on our magic to someone else. This is exactly what we need...
- How interesting! - Alice exclaimed, realizing that she could learn more. - Can I meet all the members of your magic team?
- We're not a magic squad,- said the cat. - We are the Hernagesen gang. And like I said, the Snake can easily kill you.
- But you said it was a joke,- she squeaked.
- You just don't have to remember all my words, okay? - The cat stroked the pigeon in her hair and then continued. - You know, now you have chosen not the most appropriate time to meet our team. On Monday someone attacked the Dog. That's why I had to leave you. And even in the gang, we don't trust each other much.
The cat thought for a moment. The mischievous light in her eyes disappeared, leaving only a frightening void. It seemed that the girl looked somewhere far away, where ordinary people would not see anything that only she could see. Alice shuddered slightly from such a sharp change of mood, but after a second the Cat came to her senses.
- Okay, - she held out, - Golubka and I are forced to leave you. I think the Snake will suspect something if we walk in the park for so long. The dove just had to calm down a little from the events on Monday. Well, I'll see you someday!
"Well, is that ever the time? - wanted to clarify Alice, but the Cat and the Pigeon have already gone somewhere. They are strange, though. They are closed, they don't want to communicate. I wonder, do their parents know about their magic? Or do they hide? In any case, now there is something really interesting in the life of the girl! Life has found a new meaning - to study this mysterious magic! "Now I know what I'm going to do during the summer holidays! - Alice smiled at herself and jumped home.
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