A little time to enjoy eternity Endy Typical

© Endy Typical, 2025

ISBN 978-5-0065-8197-5

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The night is dark and hides a lot from people’s eyes. If

there are no lights nearby, if the moon and stars are hidden behind clouds, then the

darkness falls so thick and

impenetrable that it begins to seem as if you are in a closed

room without windows and doors, frightening

in its obscurity. Therefore, at night it is necessary to dream, hiding

from all the fears of this world with a soft blanket. The only person who blesses

the darkness is the one who wants to be hidden, carries the tai-

nu, and wants to keep something out of sight.

This September night was particularly dark. The weather

was warm, but it was going to rain, and clouds covered the sky.

In the fields beyond the village, near the forest, there was not a light,

and in the darkness, without a lantern, it would have been impossible to distinguish whether it was a field

or a road, a forest or a clearing, and therefore no one would

have seen that the figure of a man was moving across the field.

The stiff posts of straw sticking out of the ground

made it difficult for him to walk quickly. He walked smoothly and confidently

on the ground, as if there was no impenetrable darkness around him, as if he

saw every step, every piece of the mown field.

When the man was well away from the road,

he stopped. Taking a small object out of his pocket, he said:

I squatted down, put it in front of me, and

walked quickly back. And then from a strange object with a hiss

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a column of steam whistled out. The ground around him glowed with an

orange light, and it looked like it wasn’t just

light. The hay poles nearby began to burn and charred, everything

around them began to turn black, to sink down, and

a scaly, clawed paw appeared from the pit. As soon

as the column of steam disappeared, the man came closer. The light from the fire

pit revealed what he looked like. It was a man

in his thirties, wearing a black business suit. When he saw the paw, he

rolled his eyes and made a face of displeasure, but he didn

’t move again.

The pit stopped burning, the smoldering pieces of earth no longer

glowed so brightly. Following the paw

,the rest of the strange creature’s body appeared. It is difficult to describe what

it looked like – whether it was a baby dragon, or

an overgrown winged lizard. The thin

leather wings on the skeletal carcasses looked lifeless and hung

like rags on stakes, torn in places, cracked

and crumpled in places. The creature’s face was still more like

a dragon’s, its nostrils steaming, and its eyes glittering with fire,

silver runes with strange markings were woven into the mane

,and they tinkled melodiously as they clashed together. The creature

sighed heavily, let out a large stream of

steam from its mouth, and shook itself, saying —

«That’s it, Keijigen, you can’t even shake hands with an old

friend!

«

The man in the black suit said in a tired

voice.

«Keiji, you can greet me

normally, I’m having a hard time breathing, I need more time.»

I didn’t come for a minute. Give me permission, «the dragon

lizard croaked.

Keijigen ran a hand over his disgruntled face and

beard, closed his eyes for a moment, then took a deep breath

and said, «I’m not sure.:

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– Arfimaino Arbaham, fiery guardian of the ninth

Wall and the sealed gate of the ninth Vale, imperishable

protector of the abyss of despair and hopelessness, knight of the black

cauldron of the 12th rank, I welcome you to this land.

Immediately after that, the dragon lizard

let out a sigh of relief and looked down at its paws. The scales

stopped glowing, and the entire body gradually took on a silvery-

bluish hue. His nostrils stopped steaming, and

a half-smile appeared on his face.

– Well, that’s better. It’s good for you, go back and forth

as you want, and we have such a burden on us…

But before he could finish, Sobesednik interrupted

him:

«I wouldn’t have done this if it wasn’t for the request from below,

which I can’t ignore. What’s wrong, why are you

here? I don’t have to go back yet, «Keijigen

put his hand to his face, mimicking a facepalm. —

After all, this is a blatant violation, what the fuck are you doing there

?he raised his voice. – Why the fuck did you get out on your own,

Arfimaino?

Then both of them started shouting.

«I wouldn’t if it wasn’t about you, you idiot,

and it wasn’t really important,» the lizardman croaked, shaking

his paws in the air, and his eyes glinted with a golden light.

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As is often the case with teenagers, Lina

was sick of everything again. I got a school that didn’t have anything

interesting, I got a younger brother who always wanted something

,I got a mother who came home from work in the evening

and showered her with criticism and complaints. I forgot this, didn’t do that, didn’t think about it.

And so on, day after day,

really sick of it. With my friend Mara, of course, it was at-

Coldly, she couldn’t go out with her as often as

she used to. Strict parents, foreign language tutors

,music school and other «joys» of teenage

life left her too little free

time, and so Lina just went out alone in the evening

to wander around the neighborhood, to distract herself from her

thoughts, from noisy home and from endless school

lessons. Today, she decided that she would leave the house

earlier because Michael was due to arrive.

Michael was not her mother’s new husband, but he often

spent time with their family. This plump, red – faced man

with piggy eyes and a guilty smile made

Lina feel sorry for him. She couldn’t understand why her mother

had chosen such a ridiculous friend. He did not help

them materially, as he earned quite little,

and never bought them gifts or food. He was just lonely,

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just like their mother, and maybe that’s why they enjoyed

spending time together.

Lina didn’t want to have dinner in this

company tonight. They made her feel like a ten

– year-old girl again, being poked around and lectured.

So she called out that she wouldn’t be home for dinner and would spend the night

at Mara’s, she slammed the door and stormed out of the house.

My mother wasn’t up to it – my younger brother spent half the day crying

over a B in physics, and then to top it off

,he was bitten by a wasp. When his mother came home from work, she wiped away his snot

and tears, calmed him down as best she could, prepared dinner for meeting

Michael, and was generally tired after the day’s work, so she was

even glad that there would be no youthful

maximalism and arguments about nothing at the table.

They lived almost at the very edge of the village, two houses away from the fields and the road, then a thin forest.

Lina had explored the area up and down the rivers.

She liked the small hunting lodges

that kept coming across her way as she walked along the forest.

Cool but dry inside, they seemed very cozy —

you can lie down, listen to music, dream about your own things, and no

one will bother you.

Reaching one of them, the girl easily climbed

up the wooden steps and settled on the floor. She

pulled a thin blanket out of her backpack, wrapped

herself up, put her headphones in her ears, and lost herself in thought.

Finally, the long-awaited freedom! Brief as it was,

it made her feel like the queen of the world.

She wanted to breathe in that freedom and feel like she was on her own.

strong and confident. She enjoyed the fresh

air, the gusts of wind, the sky that peeked

through a crack in the roof, the music that made you feel like you

could do anything, and her fantasies about how she

would go to the city after graduation, to a model casting, how

she would be noticed by leading fashion designers, and her life would change, everything

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will it be cool or even cooler… Such average

dreams, but for Lina they were an outlet and the most favorite

pastime.

When it started to get dark, she dozed off. The music

was still playing in her headphones, but she couldn’t hear it anymore.

After sleeping for a few hours, she woke up

to another loud musical splash in her ears. Lina idly

scooped up the wireless headphones in her hand and emptied them

into the pocket of her backpack. She turned off the music and adjusted

her backpack under her head, making herself more comfortable so that she could sleep farther

away, but then through the cracks in the wall of the house she saw a light, some

lights about a hundred meters away, almost in the middle of a mown field.

Lina got up, crawled to the wall on her knees

,and peered through the crack. «Damn, is there a fire or something? The field is burning for ho-

do! «was her first thought. Then she looked closer

then she saw the man in black. She didn’t

even have time to get scared, it all happened so fast —

an incomprehensible creature crawled out of the burning pit and spoke to the stranger.

From this distance, she could barely hear them, and the language

seemed incomprehensible, some seething and hissing sounds,

unpleasant, blocking her ears, getting stuck in her head…

The girl stopped listening, but

she couldn’t take her eyes off it. I kept thinking, Am I dreaming? Is this movie being filmed

?The creature was half a meter taller,

thicker and more massive than a human, its tail was constantly hitting