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Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

– Oh, I am sorry. Please, forgive me! – I exclaimed, being ashamed. – The way
you screamed, I just ran in fright wherever my feet would carry me...

– Well, it’s nothing. Next time we’ll be more cautious. – Stella
tried to calm me. This statement made my eyes open wide! ...
– You mean there can be a "next" time!? – I asked carefully, hoping to hear "no".

– Of course! After all, they live here! –The brave little girl "calmed" me.
– What are we doing here then?
– We came to rescue somebody. Have you forgotten? – Stella was sincerely
surprised.

Obviously our "rescue expedition" went right out of my mind because of the
awful occurrence, but I tried to pull myself together as quickly as possible in order
not to show Stella how terribly scared I was.
– Hey, don’t worry. The first time it happened to me my hair stood on end for the
whole day!
– The girl said, much merrier.

I wanted to give her a huge kiss! She somehow saw that I was ashamed of my
weakness and managed to make me feel good.
– Do you really think that little Lia’s father and brother can be here? – I asked
surprised from the bottom of my heart.
– Of course! They could be simply kidnapped. – The calm reply followed.

– What do you mean – kidnapped, who by?
But the girl did not have time to answer... Something scarier than our first
"acquaintance" jumped out from thick trees. It was something incredibly nimble and
strong, with a little but very powerful body. Its hairy belly expulsed a strange sticky
"net" which caught us before we knew where we were... Stella looked like a little
disheveled owlet. Her large blue eyes looked like two enormous saucers with splashes
of horror in the middle.

I had to think of something very quickly, but my head was absolutely empty, no
matter how hard I tried to find anything clever there... Meanwhile the "spider" (having
nothing better to call this creature) dragged us, apparently, to its nest, anticipating a
feast.
– Where are all the people? – Being almost strangled, I asked.
– Oh, there are a lot them here. You saw for yourself. More than anywhere... But
the majority of them are worse than these beasts... They won’t help us.

– What shall we do now? – In my mind my teeth began to chatter.
– Remember, when you showed your first monsters to me, you struck them with
a green ray?
– Stella asked with a sprightly and mischievous sparkle in her eyes (she came to her
senses again, quicker than me!). – Let’s try the same thing together.

I understood that, fortunately, she was not going to surrender yet and decided to
try, because we had nothing to lose anyway.
But we had no time to strike, because the spider sharply stopped and we plopped

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