“It’s time for me to leave.”

“I'll show you.”

“No. What are you saying! I remember the way.”

They couldn’t stop kissing, but Karina pulled herself away from him with an effort of will and ran back. Returning to her room, she was relieved to see that Lis, Tol and Lila were still sleeping peacefully on their bed. Karina lay down next to Lis, hugged him with all her love, burying her face in his slightly curly hair. In her crotch, she still felt the jolts: one, two, three, as if her heart were beating there.

“I followed her,” Zanmar said. “She reached the room, and everyone is asleep there.”

“I love her,” Nija said.

“You are at great risk.”

“She has “heard” me.”

“I'm not surprised,” Zanmar replied, “because she is a slave to the White Lord and is used to us.”

Nija looked at his friend very seriously:

“I’ll steal her and take her to our world,” and he, in an unconscious gesture, rubbed his cheekbone, which had been branded earlier.

16

Destruction

Great misfortunes are preceded by signs and omens that we try not to notice. It is better to give up the dilapidated house before it collapses completely. Castles in the air are destroyed at the first wind.

Kors returned to his room. Even here, at the top of the tower, the noise of the celebration was heard.

Nobody called him.

Nobody came to him.

And what should he do?

Kors felt completely alone, and with some bitterness, he felt deceived and left in a stupid position. He was deprived of support and abandoned.

Where the hell is Nikto?

He doesn’t come for him and doesn’t call him.

He doesn't need him!

He is tired of it. He played with Kors, turned him inside out and threw him away.

“I opened up to him, believed him, but he… He forgot about me! He didn’t give a shit. Probably he is getting stoned (as Alis says) now with his Arel and doesn’t even think what it is like for me!”

And Kors was left alone.

Previously, he would happily go to his friends, feeling the unity with them, the strength of their team, but now how could he go? Who would accept him? With a gray face, pitiful, humiliated, asking them to take him back, and still feeling their condescension?

And Kamiel Varah was his friend, they have been friends with him all these years. Varah knew a lot about him and talked a lot about himself. They were so close, so what? Varah stayed there, together with Peace, and never came. He deleted Kors from his life, so easily, as if there had not been all these years of such close friendship. He was having fun there with everyone, rejoiced, and thought that everything was going on well, and according to the plan. Diamonds of the Ore town were just around the corner, he didn’t even think about Kors.

“What about our friendship?! You shared everything with me! What things we did together! You said: “I will break any throat for Vitor!” Where is it all? How quickly you forgot everything! Traitor!”

And Kors was sitting alone, and Kamiel was somewhere out there having fun with everyone.

And Salafael. He also didn’t come. In general, no one came to him and no one called him!

Kors covered his face with his hands. How did it happen that they banished him?! He was so cool! “You spread in front of me and prayed for me! You ate from my plate! What have I done wrong to you? After all, I have not done anything bad to you personally and have never betrayed you all these years! And how many times have I supported you!”

And Kors was covered with a great wave of hatred for them. “I treated you with you with all my heart, and you behaved like that?! Don't do that, don't communicate with that, what's the difference to you?! I didn't do them badly! I'll kill them all!” thought Kors, “Everyone! Varah and Zagpeace, and rascal Ariel!” Salafael didn’t evoke such emotions in him. Why did he do this? Why did he agree? What should he do now? How to live with this shameful face make-up that makes him an outcast? There is no way back to the noble blacks, and the unclean ones don’t need him, they have their own lives. I'll hang myself now, Kors thought. “I ruined everything and they didn't support me. They threw me out right there, seeing that I was lost. They consider me an idiot. But I will have my revenge! If you think that I will forget everything, you are very mistaken! I won’t forget, I won’t forgive and I will take revenge! You don't know me well!”