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Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

My hair began to stir, when I thought what this wicked man could do on Earth, if
he lived that long!

But all these worries could wait, while Anna was here! Right now, nothing else
mattered. I turned around. She stood wihtout taking her enormous radiant eyes from
me! In that moment I forgot about Caraffa and the monastery, and everything else in
the world! My poor little child threw herself in my open arms and froze, endlessly
repeating: "Mummy, mummy, mummy…"
I stroked her long silky hair, inhaled the new, unknown to me, aroma and clasping
her fragile thin little body to my bosom, being ready to die right now, if only this
wonderful moment could last forever…

Anna pressed close to me, firmly clinging to me with her thin hands, as if wishing
to dissolve and hide in me from this world, which suddenly become so monstrous and
unknown... which once had been light and kind, and so homely for her!
Why should we experience this horror?! What have we done to deserve this pain?
There were no answers to that... Probably, they did not exist.
I was terribly worried about my poor little child! Even at her early age, Anna has
a very strong and bright personality. She never compromised or gave up, fighting to
the end despite any circumstances. And she was afraid of nothing...

"To be afraid of something means to accept the possibility of defeat. Don’t let
fear in your heart, dear". – Anna learnt very well her father’s lessons…
And now, probably seeing her for the last time, I had to teach her the contrary
thing – "not to push her way through" when her life depended on it. It never was one
of my "laws" of life. I learned it only now when I saw her light and proud father dying
in Caraffa’s terrible basement... Anna was the last Vedunia in our family; and she had
to survive by all means to be able to bear a son or daughter who would continue that
which our family has kept so carefully for centuries. She had to survive… at any cost...
except for treachery.

– Mummy, please, don’t leave me with him! He is very bad! I see him. He is terrible!
– You what?!! You can see him! – Anna nodded, scared. Probably I was so
dumbfounded that my appearance frightened her. – Can you go through his protection?
Anna nodded again. I stood, quite punch-drunk, unable to understand – HOW she
could do that??? But this was not important now. The most important thing was that
at least one of us could "see" him, which meant that, maybe, we can defeat him.

– Can you see his future? Can you?! Tell me, my sun, will we destroy him?! Tell
me, Annushka!
I was trembling with agitation. I longed to hear that Caraffa would die and
dreamed to see him defeated!!! Oh, how I dreamed about it! How many days and nights
I made fantastic plans, each one madder than the others, only to cleanse the Earth of
this blood-thirsty viper! But I could not do anything – I was unable to "read" his black
soul. And now it happened – my little child could see Caraffa! I had a tiny hope. We
could destroy him together, uniting our "witch" forces!

But I rejoiced too early... Anna easily read my raging with joy emotions and sadly
shook her head:

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