V. Speys - Book-7. Edem, novella

– Mom, where are you going?

It was only when she put on her coat and a gray scarf remembered about her son:

Aunt Anna, you will pack today and tomorrow will take to kindergarten. I work early tomorrow! Go, my son, come play, I come quickly.

Anna ran into the street. The snow blinded. The nearest ATM quarter was an afterthought, not noticing the weather. Student card warmed hand in his pocket. With trepidation Anya stuck the card in the ATM receiver, dial the code. Looking waited withdrawal amount on the ATM screen. Finally, the screen gave something commensurate. Too many zeros and ahead of number five. Anya afraid, demanded five dollars. ATM cold counted the amount of hundred- dollar bills and passed through the window. Anna could not believe it. After going through the code and it took another five dollars, cash counted out five hundred- dollar bills. Anya has done way back in a daze. Not noticing the hewer of the wind and snow any distance to the house. So that meant Elsa Eduardovna. So what a surprise it was cooked. Piled up a fortune stunning. She did not go home, and swam in what is a fog of nothingness. Thoughts were confused in my head and realize their wealth Anya could not yet the end. It seemed to her that a simple scholarship extra received not, at the time, and nothing more could be in her bank account. And the thing is, some thousands of rubles, not thousands of dollars. We’re not accustomed to it yet, these huge amounts of money. On my floor she got a lift and only when the elevator door opened, only then she realized that he was at the door of his apartment. From the doorstep, without undressing, Anya called Anna:

– Sobinova, come here!

Anna surprise came from Dima’s room. Behind her, a boy and curiously watched the mother.

– What happened? – She asked worriedly.

Thus, especially nothing happened. – Sly smile, telling her Anya. – But, you know, get dressed.

– You look like a crazy right now! – Not budging, she said. In my mind this myself Anna could not imagine for a second. As it is, looking at the night out of the warm nest in a crossing snow blizzard. – You’re kicking me, or what? – Not laughing, half in earnest, she said.

– You, Anna, crazy, or what? Do not expel, and the call to the supermarket. Come on, buying more food, but more tasty.

Anna could not believe it, where does a poor Ani Krazimovoy bred money? And grasping the last opportunity to stay at home, she blurted out:

A Dimka?

– He does not get used. Will stay here one.

– Mama, buy me that be of the toys.

– Buy and son. Just you be a good girl. Sit alone. We Aunt Anna did not last long. You see, I do not even undress.

– I know you’re not a long time! – Grumbling at all, as an adult, going to his room.

– Annie, have you won the lottery?

No, I got my scholarship does not get it.

Soon, shivering with gusts snowstorm, the women went to the nearest supermarket. Sped past the car. And on the opposite side of the road grizzled wide ribbon snow- covered Moscow river. It was nineteen twenties, when they entered the store. Cashier currency exchanger was still working. And Anya exchanged two American dollars for Russian rubles. This money was enough to purchase different culinary delicacies and drinks with juices.

They returned with full corporate packages in hands…

Anya Krazimovoy, and along with Anna Sobinova ended poverty.

What she proudly said Anne in the kitchen:

You know, I’m not going work.

I.e., how? I’ve been pondering where I go, so that we no longer live in misery, and you, such you say nonsense! And you thought that your scholarship has long run out?

Anna said nothing, only smiled slyly and said yes, insisting on the:

– And that’s it. I will not go all! And my scholarship in the years ahead will suffice.

– Something you’re not telling me, Annie? Yeah, you got the same letter, and I lied, what is not?

– We read together the letter and it says, about a hiding place in the house of Elsa Eduardovna, but not here with Dima.

– You’re weird, or what? A safe, in which neither be in a Moscow bank, where you had time to visit and took some of the money.

No, it is not so! However, the money you will have. I’ll give you each month by thousands of dollars.

– Well, thank you for this!

Anna did not take offense. The money we need. We need to find our guys. And I think that where there appeared to be yours and my Lenya.

– What do you mean?

– And what of the letter, Elsa Eduardovna mentioned Antarctica.

– Are you sure she’s telling the truth?

– Have you forgotten already, Anna, as an investigator Smirnov, remember to mention it to our inquiries, Antarctica?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, I remember. So they were there. A threat out there who have heard Garin and Elsa Eduardovna it that simple?

Anna, you know, something tells me that your Peter and my Lenya needed there as experts in space travel, and they’re on the job.

– Yes, it seems to be true. At the same time there.

– What do you mean?

– And the fact that the extra ballast they do not hold.

– Oh, do not hold? And how Garin and his wife?

A Garin surely secured the support of our guys.

– How? – Asked Anya.

A so that if the General and his family something to happen, Peter and Leonid will not work for them.

– Now your story is similar to the truth and I am afraid that we cannot find space there.

– Even as there! – Anna’s eyes shone strongly. It seems to be that it is prepared to immediately move on foot and even in the forty- degree cold of Antarctica for their Petya.

Anna, we will not need them. – Make an attempt to cool the hot passion of Sobinova Anya – as long as we do not know about our husbands.

So, we must find a way to contact our husbands, otherwise this trip to Antarctica will come out to bite us.

– That makes no sense. How do we let them know that we have enough money to rent an American Sixth Fleet and throw it on the former German base in Antarctica. – Complete the dialogue Anya.

Yeah, you know how to pull at the wound patients. – Anna sighed. Break off a chicken leg from a fragrant fried carcass, was chewing, biting into slices of white meat. Women are no longer talking. Silently, finishing dinner, they went from room to room. Anya, going into the bedroom to her son, she saw him sleeping in street clothes. Careful not to wake him up, stripped and put him under a blanket, then lay down by herself. Sleep did not come to her. In different thoughts crept into my head. Built extravagant plans, and broke like crystal stemware on a cement floor, unable to bear the smallest argument. In the end, she began to fall asleep, plunging into the troubled dreams. She had a beautiful garden. The trees were in bloom and bear fruit, and at the same time. On a branch of the same tree hung ripening fruits of unprecedented, and which is not the usual form. Fruits are published enjoyable and delicious flavor, but such that excited by a passionate desire to rip ripe and then eat it. Hand she reached for the nearest branch. Suddenly emerged from the thick leaves of the snake’s head. With a terrible hissing snake wrapped around his arm and dug her teeth, sharp needles. Anya shivered. I woke up in a cold sweat. Instantly, finding himself in bed, drew a breath of relief. Near the peaceful sniff son in a dream finally calmed the woman.

– I dream about the same! – In the hearts she said, almost inaudibly. Then rolled over on its right side, and fell asleep again.

– Mom, Mom! – Anya’s son was pushing, trying hard to wake up the sleeping mother. – You, why do not you go to work?

– Son, I’m not going to go to work.

– And what will we live? – As already quite mature, well- worn veteran, said Dima.