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Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

whenever you want, with the only condition – you should be very careful.

– You can you go there! – She was very surprised. I nodded.
– And you too.
– I am sorry, Isolda. Tell me, please, why is your world so bright? – Stella was
unable to retain her curiosity.

– It always was cold and misty where I lived, and it was quite different where I
was born: the sun always shone brightly, the flowers smelled sweet and the snow was
only in winter and even then it was sunny. I missed my country so much that I still
fail to take delight in it to my heart's content. Indeed, my name sounds quite cold, but
it’s because when I was a child, I got lost and was found on ice. That is why they
called Isolda. ("Iso" can be tranlated from Russian as "from or of", "lda" – accusative
case for "liod" – "ice" – E.L.)
– Wow! That’s true – "of ice"! I would never guess! – I stared at her,
dumbfounded.
– It’s nothing. Take Tristan, for example. He never had a name and lived all his
life nameless.
– Isolda smiled.

– But what about "Tristan"?
– Oh, come on, dear! It just means "one who owns three camps", – Isolde
laughed. – His family died when he was little and that is why he was not given a
proper name when the time came
– there was nobody to do it.

– But why do you explain all of it in my language? In fact it’s in Russian!
– But we are Russians, more precisely – were then. – She corrected herself. –
Now who knows who we will be...

– How is that – Russians? – I was completely confused.
– Well, not quite, but in your terms we were Russians. There were many more of
us then, and everything was much more diverse – our land, language and life... It was
a long time ago...
– But the book says that you were Irish and Scottish?! Or is it a lie again?

– Why a lie? No not at all. It’s just that my father arrived from the "warm" Rus
to become the ruler of the "island" camp, because it was seized with long and bloody
wars and nobody could put an end to them, and he was a skilful warrior, and therefore
they asked him to come. But I always missed "my" Rus... It was always too cold for
me on those islands.
– May I ask you, how did you truly die? Of course, only if it does not hurt you
to tell me. Different books describe it differently, and I would like to know very much
how it really happened...

– I gave his body to the sea – it was their custom then... and went home... Only I
never got there... I did not have enough forces. I wanted so much to see the sun, but
could not... or may be Tristan did not "let me go"...
– But what about those books which say that you died together or that you killed

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