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Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

– What do you do here?! – Stella was sincerely surprised.

– Have you forgotten? I have to take the kids. I promised them.
– And where is Michelle? Are you not together?

– Why not together? Of course we are together! But I promised... And she always
loved children. So we decided to be all together until a new life takes them.
– It’s wonderful! – Stella was happy, and then jumped to another subject. – Are
you very happy, right? Tell me, are you happy? She is so beautiful!!!
Arnault looked into our eyes long and attentively, as if wishing but hesitating to
say something. Finally, he dared.

– I can’t accept this happiness from you... It is not mine... It is wrong... I don’t
deserve it yet.
– What do you mean you can’t?! – Stella almost choked with indignation. – Of
course you can! Don’t you dare even to try to refuse!!! Look how beautiful she is! And
you say you can’t…

Arnault smiled sadly, looking on the raging Stella. Then he affectionately hugged
her and quietly pronounced:
– You brought me unspeakable happiness and the only thing I brought you was
such frightful pain... Forgive me my dearest, if you can some time. Forgive me...
Stella gave him light and affectionate smile, as if wishing to show that she
perfectly understood everything and forgave him everything, and that it was not his
guilt at all. Arnault could only nod sadly and pointing at the quietly waiting kids, asked:

– Do you think I can take them with me "upstairs"?
– Unfortunately, not. – Stella answered sadly. – They can’t go there, they stay here.

– Then we shall stay here too... – A tender voice sounded. – We shall stay here with
them.
Surprised, we turned around. It was Michelle. "Well, finally everything has been
settled". – I thought contentedly. Again somebody had to sacrifice something
voluntarily, and the simple human good won again. I looked at Stella. The little girl
smiled. Again everything was all right.
– Shall we go for a brief walk? – Stella asked with hope.

I should have come back home a long time ago, but I knew that I wouldn’t leave
her alone for all the tea in China and nodded.

Isidora

To tell the truth I did not feel like going for a walk after what had happened, but I
could not leave Stella anyway, therefore in order to make us both feel at least half-way
good, we agreed not to go far but simply relax our agitated brains a little and give some
rest to our pain tortured hearts, enjoying the silence and peace of the mental floor...
We slowly swam in the tender silver haze, totally relaxing our overstrained
nervous system and submerging into magnificent peace incomparable with anything
else, as suddenly Stella enthusiastically shouted:
– Blimey! You just look at that! It’s so beautiful!

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