Unconquered Sun

by Philipp Bogachev

  How many this torture proceeded, he did not know, but suddenly felt how someone pulled hard on it from above, and then the sharp needle pierced his vein and on a body the blissful feeling of rest spread. Then it could open eyes, at last. He saw two fairies in snow-white-white tunics with medallions on a breast in the form of an angry bee, with the same white dead-pans.

  - What there is with it, a sister?

  - I do not know. We did not have it yet. It is necessary to contact the fifth department, let will send experts in medicine. The case is obviously unique.

  - It is necessary will hurry. If he dies, to us will strongly fly from her Fidelity, indicative trial is necessary …

  - I know, the sister …

  What fairies spoke further about, Prinze did not remember any more, having plunged into darkness of unconsciousness.

  Prinze in some snow-white-white room without windows and without doors, something reminded him laboratory of the Gold Hall regained consciousness. It lay on a white table wheelchair on castors, in a white shirt with the long sleeves tied around his body so that it could not move hands freely. Over it - two fairies in salad and olive color tunics (the Prince did not see such flowers at fairies yet), and nearby - one in snow-white-white. At all - "REAPED" medallions and armbands.

  - What you will tell, the sister? - snow-white-white asked.

  - High content of a solium in blood, intoksikoz. The organism was reconstructed on consumption of a solium and demands it. Can die … - passionlessly answered salad, with concentration considering a subject which she held in hand.

  - It is excluded, the sister. He should not die, at least, before process. Pull up to me trees, but he has to survive at us, clear?

  - We will do everything possible, elder sister.

  - And impossible too. Order of her fidelity, clear?

  - Yes sir.

  And then Prinze failed in darkness of oblivion again.

  When he left it again, found out that he sits on some chair, chained to it by metal hoops. Heat amplified in all body, on skin goosebumps ran, there was a sweat, dried up in a mouth, hands and legs began to shake a small shiver. Again there were importunate voices and visions from which the head broke up.

  Salad attentively looked at it, efficiently raised an eyelid, ran a hand over a cheek, slightly patted on it fingers, then dressed the analyzer and attentively scanned all body.

  - Well? - asked its Olive.

  - It is time to begin. And that it can not sustain this attack. Let's begin with an electroshock - it will burn in it some part of a solium, I hope …

  - How so - "I hope", the sister? - with astonishment raised eyebrows Olive.

  - And so that I for the first time in life face such form of poisoning and I will act on intuition. We all the same have no other exit. We start cleaning, we have time for talk no sister.

  Olive approached, directed the analyzer to a chair in which Prinze sat, and began to beat him with current and so that from a body steam went and hair bristled. Shook it as a doll, and only hoops kept him on a chair from to falling to a floor. How many this nightmare lasted, it was impossible to define, but when, appear, that Prinze's heart will stop, Olive suddenly waved a hand and blows stopped, hoops were unclenched and it a bag failed directly on a floor.

  When Prinze recovered, he lay swaddled on a white table with castors again, and again before his look there were faces of the same fairies, but only they appeared constantly doubled and troitsya and even flew over it. As if from where from far away he heard their voices:

  - … So far it is impossible to beat more, and that heart will stop. Let's start the second means.

  Olive knowingly nodded and entered into a vein to Prinze some substances. Some force right there struck to it in a brain, and the head strongly began to spin. It seemed to it that it does not lie on a horizontal surface, and flies somewhere to an abyss. A ceiling, faces of fairies, walls - everything floated before eyes. The prince moaned and he began strong emetic desires.

  - Hey, the sister, apparently, will feel sick him now!

  - Remarkably. The more will tear it, the quicker the organism will be cleared. Untie it, and it to us here all sheet will dirty that, - as usual passionlessly told Salad.

  Olive quickly untied Prinze and he fell a bag to a floor. It is become painful to be turned out in hastily the basin substituted Olive. It seemed that now even the stomach and its all guts will get out of a mouth. All interiors painfully hurt, from a mouth some yellow brilliant swill with blood climbed, and then vomiting ended with a deep faint again.

  - So, well there at us?

  - The quantity of a solium fell to a quarter, but it seems that to tear he has already nothing.

  - We start the third way, the sister …

  Further Prinze stripped naked and pushed in some very hot, fragrantly smelling liquid. It was very pleasant to be in it, but long did not allow to be in a state of bliss to it. It was pulled out from there, without having allowed to be wiped. And, a little later, all skin of Prinze began to itch terribly, strong sweating and it that fairies only also managed to remove from it wet went - though squeeze out - the clothes all covered with some golden raid. The prince escaped from their hands and, shouting, broke off clothes hands, combing till it bleeds skin.

  - Proklyatye! Yes it now to itself(himself) will tear vessels, you what, you do not see?! Quickly tie hands, quickly! And legs too!

  - Ouch! It is kicked!

  - Give, I am …

  The prince fought on a floor as fish who was pulled out on the land from water and sweat and poured from it a hail. As a result, on a floor the pool of some golden liquid was formed. When the torture became intolerable, it failed in emptiness again.

  But further it was even worse.

  - So, sister, now laxative.

  - You are sure? Look, it skin to a bone! At it there can come dehydration and he will die!

  - And if we do not bring out of it this muck, he will die even earlier. Give, quickly, only open a door of the pink room, and that will not reach - the dose will be just horse.

  Olive giggled was, but Salad so looked at her that that reddened and silently gave her a box with some pink muck.

  - Let's untie it at first … So, so, well … Hey, you, the patient, you hear me?

  Salad attentively looked at Prinze and strongly pinched him for a cheek. The prince was wrinkled.

  - That is and - and - to, well, reacts, so hears … As you, "Prince" perhaps?, look, there a pink room - you will run there, understood? Understood, and?

  The prince poorly nodded.

  - Understands still. Eh, I feel sorry for him if we pull out it from a next world and we will give to the second department …

  What will be with it in the second department, she did not finish speaking because Olive having sharply pressed on a neck, forced Prinze's mouth to open reflex and poured into it some pink wish-wash.

  - Hey, hey, you are more silent, here and so on a horse will be, and you want what - as it to feed an elephant? And now - r - r - r - ra - and - and - azvyazyvayem …

  Both fairies quickly untied sleeves of a shirt and helped Prinze to get up. But as soon as Prinze got up, he felt that at it something strongly began to seethe in a stomach and he at full speed ran to the pink room.

  How many Prinze stayed in the pink room, he did not know, but very much, very long. Streams of golden liquid escaped at it from an organism pushes, it hardly kept on a seat, and liquid all came out and came out.

  - … Hey, well you all there? Finished? Does not answer …

  - Does not answer, so finished what here not clear? Give it in shower - it should be washed from legs to the head - from it stinks, probably, as from dead Murin.

  - … And now give drink this here pink water, - gradually recovering, the voice Olive heard Prinze again. - You already at us know the road, clever so give …

  The prince tried to turn away. Weakness was such that he could not move also a finger, and therefore when Olive took it
for a jaw, he any more not in forces was it to oppose.

  The fairy squeezed fingers his nose, Prinze began to choke, and therefore he against will had to open a mouth. Then she, with a victorious cry, poured to it in a mouth in a glass of some pink wish-wash. Burned all gullet of Prinze as if to it in a mouth poured in the melted metal, he felt very strong, insufferably strong thirst, as if ate too much something salty. Despite weakness, he jumped from a mobile bed and saw directly before himself the whole bucket of water, but some strange greenish shade. Without thinking twice, he hung the head in a bucket and began to drink greedy as an animal on a watering place.

  - Oh, and it will not choke with a case?

  - Should not. Animals so, and nothing drink.

  - So that animals, and is the human man …

  - All right, what you tell me here! I know these men - nothing they worse than animals! Will drink - will not choke …

  And meanwhile Prinze blew nearly half-buckets, put out the head and began to hiccup loudly.

  Some of fairies - the Prince did not see what - started giggling. And another told:

  - Hey, Prinze, well we agreed, you know the road, huh?

  Even if and not really knew Prinze Road, then now he learned it by heart. Because he had to run there every other couple of minutes. Long streams of golden liquid a pressure poured out from it as water from a shower bell. Sometimes it stood in the pink room for ten minutes in a row, and then, being unsteady, went back that, having lain down a couple of minutes, again to run to the pink room.

  - … Well, the bath is ready?

  - And what - from it already everything poured out?

  - It seems does not run any more. Give, in a bath - it was necessary to remove very little.

  - And it will sustain?

  - You know, the sister if it sustained all this, will sustain and I ban and if sustains a bath, then even these izuverka from the second department to it will be at all, however, Prinze? And? What, you are silent? The fool you, we, understand, we save your ass, and you … I, by the way, know your wife from School, shared the same desk with it and in "Beehive" we had one bed and a bedside table. She slept on the top tier, and I - on lower …

  - That you say to it yes, it is not imputed! You see, rolled up eyes …

  - Yes I see! It is a pity for me for him if dies …

  - Well give it in a bath we will not push …

  - No, it is necessary. It was necessary to remove very little.

  The prince did not remember how he was in heated to is red baths. Some of fairies - he did not distinguish flowers of their tunics for a long time - poured out several mugs of water on the heated stones. Breath at Prinze intercepted, in the head everything floated, heart boomingly began to knock. It seemed, it so strongly jumps that reaches even temples. Sweat rolled streams. And then both fairies began to beat from all force it by all parts of a body brooms. Was very much, very painfully …

  After all these, directly to tell, fanatic medical procedures the Prince in general ceased to understand something. But after it, half-dead, pulled out, at last, from a bath under a cool shower, Prinze began to feel in a different way. He ceased to hear voices in the head, stopped thinking about the Invincible Sun and to remember It, ceased to see the Gold Hall and in general to miss the Stream.

  - … The detoxication is finished, elder sister, indicators of the Analyzer demonstrate that the excess quantity of a solium is output from tissues of a body and cells of a brain. Heart, a brain, lungs - all are normal. It is a little overstrained, but also only. We pumped up it liquid food - he ate five days nothing so he will not starve.

  - Well worked, sisters. I will surely reflect your work in the report of her Fidelity. Increase in a rank is guaranteed to you, as well as in scientific degree. You can rely on me.

  - And-and-and-and what with it will be now?

  - Let's transport in our department, it is time to start reorganization of consciousness. Trial on a nose - was not enough still that at their Knowledge and its Fidelity he began to talk any nonsense there.

  There was a pause.

  - It is possible, elder sister, I will tell it a couple of words, alone?

  - What for?

  - Well, please …

  - All right. So far we prepare transport. Two minutes, are no more.

  The prince heard a sound of retreating footsteps of the fairy with a strict voice.

  - Hey, as there you, Prinze, and well regain consciousness …

  The prince felt easy blow of electric current, hardly opened eyes and saw before himself the Salad fairy.

  - Well you look at me so stupidly, and? You do not understand anything, huh? Well all right, listen. I insistently advise you how the friend when you get to the Second department AGREE WITH EVERYTHING, understood? WITH EVERYTHING!!! You hear? WITH EVERYTHING! Otherwise they "vegetable" will make of you, you understand? "Vegetable" … - Olive sobbed, furtively brushed away a tear and turned away. And then, having quickly looked back on the parties and having convinced that there is nobody nearby, quickly kissed Prinze on both cheeks and a forehead.

  And when that came, strict and passionless snow-white-white, Prinze on a wheelchair was carried along a corridor sterile snow-white white, without windows and without doors, lit with the blinding bright this world somewhere.

  2.

  The prince regained consciousness when he was lifted from a wheelchair. Then it was washed in the shower room with same sterile white walls, changed clothes for new clothes, seated on a chair, having tied to it strong belts.

  Then two fairies in snow-white-white, but except a kulonchik of "STING" approached it, on snow-white-white tunics and on armbands on the right hand they had an image of the fairy, the coming leg on the head of a disgusting snake. The prince was surprised by this image and he began to consider it attentively.

  - What? It is pleasant? - the first of them told enough. - Did not see still? Well nothing, all once is for the first time, but it is better not to see to you it for the second time. Honestly.

  - Why? - it is hardly heard Prinze whispered, his look became more or less intelligent - after all therapy of specialists doctors of the fifth department helped.

  - And so, - important mentor tone the snow-white-white fairy as though explaining the elementary lesson to rather stupid pupil told. - You, the patient, got on clarification procedure which with you will be carried out by the best specialists of the Second department of "STING". The fifth department cleared your body of filth, and we will be engaged in your soul. It is clear? You see this snake? - here she pointed a finger at an emblem at herself on a breast. - This snake - heresy which crept in in your reason and poisons you from within. And it - we, - here pointed to the image of the fairy, - we from you will expel this snake, clear? And therefore we are also called - "ekzortsistka".

  - Yes that you stand on ceremony with it, the sister? Let's start cleaning, and that time already …

  Everything began with the fact that another approached it one fairy in white. One asked, showing it three fingers how many he sees fingers. And when Prinze said that three, the second touched him with a metal stick with the blue-green electric sparks running on it. The prince wildly shouted, painfully shook him electric current so hair bristled, and foam in flakes went from a mouth, and then he fainted. Then everything began once again.

  How many so proceeded, Prinze did not know, but very much, very long … A question, the answer, blows, water with vinegar in a face, and again all over again. The prince persistently could not understand what from him is wanted, knew only one - the answer "three" for some reason wrong.

  - Listen, the patient, well you already third day go obstinate, and? You ruin yourself! Heart will stop - and everything, tyu-tyu … - the fairy quietly gave a whistle. - Hey, look here, do not close an eye! Listen, the sister, and well take his head for hair, and it fills up that. Here so … Well … Give still waters with vinegar … Here so …

  - So, listen. You understand, unfortunate you a be
ing, we here not in order that to torment you and to help, you understand? To cure you of a sincere illness … You are absent well only look, he closes eyes also again what you will do?!

  - Yes he, the sister, did not sleep all these days what you want?

  - All right. Raise the head above, here so … So, here, the patient, you understand - the HERESY is an ILLNESS. She as a snake sits in you and poisons with lie poison your consciousness. And the heresy roots on what? That you seek to insist on the, to prove the truth, you understand? On pride, in a word …

  The prince nodded - he was not beaten with an electroshock by fifteen minutes and from it it became easier for it.

  - Here and miraculously. Understood in what a heresy essence? And now, if you understood everything, let's continue …

  Feya-ekzortsistka showed it three fingers again and asked how many fingers he sees. And Prinze it is hardly heard whispered "I do not know".

  - Here! You can! You can! Recognition of the mistake is already the first step to humility. And humility before the authority - the best antidote against heresy, against the arrogance which seized your consciousness. And now listen further, actually fingers not to three, but four, you understand me?

  The prince quickly began to nod the head. He remembered council of the Lime fairy and it seems began to understand what is "vegetable". If only only did not beat any more with an electroshock if only not …

  - So, how many fingers I show you?

  - Four, - Prinze whispered.

  - Clear head! Reconciled! You can! - and tenderly patted him shoulder.

  Then began to ask it other questions - and Prinze very much, very much tried to answer everything correctly - is direct all out went.

  On a question who such the Invincible Sun it, cautiously looking at the blue-green sparks running on a metal stick, easily found the correct answer - "The Enemy of Community". It was praised again and tenderly patted on a cheek. Also easily he answered a question who such Triune Knowledge. He told - "the head of Community".