Evening Breeze did not leave, and the commander asked:
- Do we have something else to discuss?
- No, I am waiting for you to call the palace, the palace of Idea.
He blushed, minimized the window on his computer, where one could see photos from Facebook, then rang the phone. They listened and gave him the permission.
- You're lucky, the person responsible for our portfolio in the supreme forum of Idea agrees. Where is your fiancée?
After recording the information directly to the computer, he raised his hands in a gesture of higher benevolence and Anna’s fiancé left the office and went into the great hall where his colleagues were working on powerful computers. He sat on his own. These computers were connected only with each other. They had no connection with the outside world.
***
She rose up to look for the angel because she could not feel his presence. He appeared quite speechless.
"I guess I underestimated the man and overestimated the woman. Do you think this is due to the fact that in real life I was a woman? "
"You are a woman, in the present, too.
"It seems that things started well."
"It is too early to say."
"Yes" - she wanted to groan.
"There is no use groaning and crying”
"Stop trying to calm me down with clichés!"
"So, they are clichés because they are proven to be effective."
"Bell are prayers clichés?"
"Yes, they are."
"I have always thought so, why I said no prayer, but it is a mistake, in fact, they are necessary." – The Angel was silent. - "I would say one, but I have not heard how they pray in this grim state of the Idea."
"They do not pray. It is forbidden to believe in gods. They ought to believe only in the great superior! "
"And do you pray?"
"Yes."
"How?"
"You are not supposed to know."
"Oh I forgot, that I am supposed to know almost nothing, except the helpless circling around the doomed people."
"Do you quit?"
"No, I unlike you I get fond of the human beings who I fight for!"
Anna rushed headlong to the sewing factory, but except the gossip that Moonlight is getting married, she did not learn anything. The young seamstress had left.
She rushed into the bunker and found the couple hand in hand, standing up, in front of the desk of the chief, who was reading from the monitor the obligatory words. He was authorized to perform the ritual of the wedding. Finally he said "Congratulations! “ Then followed handshakes, another employee took them and led to the bedrooms in the basement, and explained to them that they will be given a separate room with a bed and a cupboard. Moonlight, who was dressed in gray, working suit, they gave a new uniform - dark blue. Pompously, they announced that she was appointed as a secretary of the main boss. The next day, the skillful seamstress became responsible employee for the project about the high-tech weapon, which the State of Idea was to use and conquer the world.
In the spacious office of the Head, next to the door, they put a small desk behind which sat the wife of Evening Breeze. There was no job for the chief, and they invented some for her- copying some files from the project, she was rather summarizing them of square pieces of paper, then attaching these notes on the front page- to be visible what the content of the drawings was.
They were fed three times a day and soon Moonlight looked better and more beautiful. The team of her husband corrected the error and began to assemble the structure in the basement. The trial was about to be held within a few weeks. The chief commander was ordered that after the trial they had to kill all special agents, all employees and creators of the project and give the project on to the special teams. Anna read it on his desk and immediately consulted BellX18.
"If you can persuade them to escape, they themselves have to organize everything, they know the situation best."
"The most difficult will be to make them leave the bunker. Can you hint, some idea? "
"You forget that in the State of The Idea there is just a Great Idea and others are forbidden!"
"Bell, I like your jokes, but disembodied and transparent as I am, I cannot laugh and they almost lose their effect."
"After three days there will be a grand parade to celebrate the birthday of the great superior. The most appropriate would be to ask you to participate. "
"You are great, My Angel, but taking the risk to be reproached for complaining too much, I will emphasize that I cannot hug and kiss you!"
Anna rushed immediately into the bunker. It was night and newlyweds were sleeping embraced in the narrow bed. She sent the girl a vision of how she approaches the desk of the chief and reads the order. It worked. After reading the detailed instructions about who and in what way would be killed after the successful test of the weapon, the girl got startled with terror and woke up. Immediately she began pushing her husband and whispering what she had seen in her dream. Evening Breeze caressed her and smiled. Anna saw him smiling for the first time. He looked different.
"I know dear, do not worry, I had got a permission so that everybody be present at the demonstration. Trust me. Calm down and go to sleep. I have thought and taken care about everything "
It was now when Anna realized why there were no cameras and listening equipment in the bedrooms or anywhere else. The plan was to kill all who were familiar with the weapon. Only the great superior would have the project. So, there was no intention to use it, but sell it. And her man, the clumsy Evening breeze again surprised her.
***
On the big celebration parade honoring the birthday of the great superior, the "joyful and happy" people were waving enthusiastically in front of the podium under the monument. The two spouses and some other scientists honored to parade, followed the parade and were marching quite naturally. Evening Breeze faced in the crowd with a friend who was a senior in the palace. Very deftly another woman in the same blue suit got aligned with the head of the secret project, and Moonlight went with the other man. This respected employee left after the impressive rally on a visit to a neighboring country. Together with him there were only two important members of the government who traveled, but also a whole lot of escorting ladies and secretaries. Moonlight was one of his personal secretaries. What happened that she could stay in the neighboring country and the delegation returned with one woman less- even Anna didn’t understand. But for a very short time Moonlight became an illegal immigrant in the neighboring country. She started work as a chambermaid in a pretty decent hotel. Illegally.
***
In honor of the birthday of the great superior, they made a successful test of the new weapon. That same evening they began the mission on cleansing the people who were familiar with the project. Anna watched with horror how they summoned one by one the women employees', giving them a lethal injection and then hauling them in black bags in vans. Then, in the same way they killed the men assistants and the technical staff. The main boss got the report that Moonlight was not found neither alive, nor dead. He explained that she was secretly reported and handed to the special squad the Chief Labour Inspector, the father of second mistress of the great superior, but it was a secret mission because of Evening Breeze.
The very creator of the ultra-powerful weapons, together with the closest scientists from his team was escorted into a heavily guarded camp. It was done personally by the chief and two of his faithful people. The Highest ruler from the palace of the Idea was reported that all were eliminated and buried in a common grave along with those starved to death in the eastern province.
It was a rather unexpected action. So the lover of Facebook sharing was not such a timid clerk and was much more different from what he looked like! And the fear of the fat man – the great superior was not ubiquitous and all-pervasive.
Anna got up to look for the angel. She was very worried by the news that Moonlight so easily had left the country, not becaus
e Evening Breeze had an influential friend, and at the request of the mighty - inspector. When she only thought what a disgusting freak he was … she was angry with herself that she had ignore him so far, where he was and what he was doing.
But as he saw Bell, she sank into the white light and found herself on the sphere of Orange.
Chapter 6
This time Anna was not bored, because she had the two angels next to her, but she only felt a growing dissatisfaction. The questions about the previous missions, they responded in the usual way, which was not saying anything definite, but only commented lives of ants and the colonies of anthills. What she did not care about, awoke in her annoyance in her. Never would she have liked the world of "organized insects of the order of species of the Hymenoptera family" Although she had noticed that the society of the above-mentioned was something completely unfamiliar to her, that they are not on top of the food pyramid as people are, and are practically the most common creatures on the planet earth, she found only the construction of the their ants’ homes, the anthills very interesting. Each with a separate architecture, but the cells within this single ensemble were completely identical in size and as they were intended to be in function. She could not get used to that more than eighty percent of the population represented workers ants, of course divided into different castes, which she differed only in their different sizes. Minority was represented by female mothers, male fertilizers, soldiers and strategists. In terms of their reproduction their ratio was one to one hundred. A mother to a hundred male drones. In general, a strange kind of ratio, in her opinion, but the white and black angel did not share her attitude. They tried that she showed more interest, which cause the opposite reaction.
"Mother Nature and the planet will not change significantly if humanity disappears. Without ants, however, the world will need to be created anew. "- For the umpteenth time BellX18 was nagging.
"Yeah, I knew. They carry the seeds of plants and bury 90% of extinct animals in their settlements. In these tasks the millions of ants roll over more ground even than earthworms. "
"Until you learn and explore in detail the lifestyle of ants, and in particular the conquistadors, we are not going on the fourth mission on earth." - Announced Black X18.
"They are not correctional tasks any more, they are missions, right?" - Anna never looked at the screen, where a strange freak scientist was trying to explain that the 6-millimiter ants-conquistadors had created an anthill encircling the entire Iberian Peninsula, southern France and the Italian Riviera.
"Anna, even when you were on the Earth, you took no interest in the scientific achievements, but without you mobile phone, you could not imagine their existence." - BellX18 also sounded edifying that when in the case of an angel meant a huge annoyance.
"The fact that ants are more organized, more militant and more common on the Earth than humans and have existed and can exist without humanity, what does it have to do with science?" - She was outraged by their behavior. - "Look, I suggest you visit your ruler, I heard you call him Sudar or whatever his name and make a suggestion that he discard me and put me for scrap.
The White Angel tried to explain that only machines can be discarded, but the black angel interrupted.
"We offered him, but he did not relieve us of the hardships we encounter with you!"
"What should I do, when you cannot handle! If you imagine that your career ambitions will strain me to study those pesky ants, I will not, I will simply not! "
Her mental body, which loomed just started to bounce up and down. She had found that could do it and she felt almost like after a good laugh.
"Poor Sudar, if all his angels are such bastards like you, maybe his life is a very difficult one!" - She added.
She noticed that the white and black hoods froze motionless and cloaks got blurred to clear unobtrusive transparent. She often joked with their angel - principal, so it was hardly what had them worried. She stared at the monitors, lest their favorite ants have done something obscene, but it was nothing special. Then he appeared - his hooded cloak shone with gold to ocher and dark shadow where it was expected the person to be wearing, had an indescribable density. Anna was filled with such bliss and awe that she did not want anything else but this new presence.
"To me your angels turn with" Sudar ". I respect you and I hope that you will get through!"
After he forwarded his message, he disappeared. She was stunned and did not believe she could feel those feelings. In fact, she has convinced herself that as a Mental, she was unable to feel emotions. At least not as those, she could seem to remember as a human on the ground. But what did she felt when meeting Sudar? Why couldn’t she describe it? The Angels shifted, but said nothing. Finally she came to her senses and asked:
"Did you call him?"
"We cannot call him, only he can call us. We heard that he visited some people thousands of years ago, but did not believe that can you be so ... "- The White Angels, who was usually very eloquent found it difficult to continue.
"Alright, I understand what you mean."
"No, you did not understand. Our archangel who we serve to is different. A Sudar is consubstantial to the planet Earth. "
"Do not torture yourself. I got it. I promise I'll get to know better ants and funny bespectacled professors who deal with them throughout their lives. I would give everything to meet Sudar again. "
"I suggest that we go for the fourth task on earth and when we get back, we should spend time on the nest, anthills and ants-conquistadors." – Black X18 addressed her respectfully, which made her feel flattered.
"Bell, what do you say?" - Asked Anna and the white angel was already nodding his hooded, showing assent.
***
Then she plunged into an unspeakable white portal and found herself on an island among a group of tourists. She looked around, the angels were with her. The local guide explained:
- Because you've come as tourists, you do not know the local customs, you'll find that you will be deafened in your ears, you cannot go anywhere alone and never, never, not hanging out in the dark and even in a group. Finally, the levels of stress and paranoia will probably come a bit more, but it's nice to know that we do it for your own good. Here people shoot with reason and without reason - during the robberies, domestic squabbles, clashes between criminal gangs soldered. The state is doing everything possible for the order, but the greatest interest and guarantee is the padlock in the hotel at night, no going out on foot - all entertainment must be within the spacious guarded inner area with restaurants, bars, shops and swimming pools. Secure places - beaches, hotels and shopping complexes, elite neighborhoods - are surrounded by fences and I do not want to hear comments that they are like concentration camps. Nothing of the kind! Due to the widespread crime, there are fences and they are kept by gendarmerie. The residential districts of blocks and houses like giant bird cages lined with bars everywhere, but only when seen from above. If your curiosity is so great that you want to search a variety outside the organization is not very simple: you go out only in taxis called by the hotel and with operators checked by restaurants and clubs where you will be waited, accompanied and sent back by the same guaranteed safe way. Do not allow any arbitrariness!
- Well, we hear it everywhere, we came because of the bazaar of pearls. Which hotel will it take place in? When can we go?
- The trippers began to shout over one another.
First we go to the exhibition - bazaar. The island is famous for pearls - large and tiny, white, pink, black, colored cappuccino, ivory, graphite ... Mostly, the rare black pearls are patent of the local seas. Today you can buy, if you want.
Anna was not listening more to the explanations of the guide. They entered the vast lobby of the luxury hotel where behind glass windows around a huge marble statue in the center there were lined jewelry with pearls. Inside there was order and the most fuss was about Miss Universe. This beautiful young woman was become the first on the beauty contest on the local le
vel and then won the world's biggest beauty contest. On her neck there hung a necklace of black pearls, bracelets hands and ears delicate earrings. The set was unique, it was called "Black Eye" and was sold at a quite exorbitant price. Miss Universe was the advertising face of these pearls. Around her there were lightning that flashed continuously, cameras or journalists bargained with PR for interviews. The PR person was her husband, twenty years older than her, a famous film director.
In an armchair in the lobby bar, over a cup of ice cream a six-year-old girl was sitting- the daughter of Miss Universe and venerable director. This little creature was the object of protection for Anna this time. Nobody paid any attention to the little child who obediently did not move from her seat.
Late in the afternoon, when the bazaar was over, it turned out that nobody bought the expensive jewelry set of black pearls advertised by this beauty. Then, the vain husband announced to the guests that he bought "Black Eye" for his lovely lady. All the people were stunned, shouted and envied.
***
Late in the evening, the family of Miss Universe returned to their home, located in the most expensive neighborhood in the capital. Their house was new, modern, two-storey, and the old hereditary building with four columns and triangular entrance arch, very extensive, but one-storey, stood near, but a bit back in the yard. There lived the mother of Miss Universe - Dona Margarita with her servants.
When Miss Universe sat on the porch to drink a cocktail and dream under the stars there came Dona Margarita.
- Oh, Mom, you haven’t gone to the plantation?
- I was, but I went home. The accounting officer called me that you have withdrawn a fabulous sum of the total bill.
Old Mother was a wrinkled, dark, plump woman.
- Yes, my husband saved me from an embarrassing situation on the pearl bazaar. There were no wealthy customers and nobody bought "The Black Eye." I had to announce that it has been booked for me!
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