Slowly, in utter disbelief, Karhan has cleaned from the face a hand, still hoping that eyes will help it to disseminate so strange
acoustical hallucination. Before it there was a man high, statnyj, and the truth, Ruslana similar to reflexion in a mirror.
I very much would like to ask: isn't that so, I have rather changed since then when you me saw last time? The owner of
apartments has derisively said. But regretfully it is necessary to ascertain that for you I was not born yet and there will be this
significant event for this world, oh, as not soon!
You... Mine... The great-grandson? Has hardly squeezed out Ruslan.
So, its interlocutor has specified in convenient rotating armchairs near a low little table. You wish tea, coffee, and can, in
honour of a meeting you wish something more strong? At me here a quite good choice. There are local grades, there are also
we.
Karhan silently has nodded, leaving an entertainment to the discretion of the owner, and has accurately fallen to an armchair,
trying armour and sheath of a sword not to damage a leather upholstery.
How to me to call you, expensive relative? It at last has uttered, slightly having accustomed to a premise reminding whether a
hotel suite, whether control centre of flight.
Name Mardukom. During the last years, and here decades, I have already got used to this name.
He has stretched Ruslanu a wine-glass "Jack Deniels".
Well, for acquaintance renewal!
How all it to understand? Supporting a toast, has lifted a wine-glass of Karhan.
The good question, has grinned the Supreme god. However, the answer to it can be tightened. Well, yes after all we do not
hasten anywhere. Time here moves all the same not how outside. Therefore we will make a fresh start. If something is not
clear, ask questions. Excuse, the story can turn out chaotic. But I very much worry, itself did not expect, Marduk has made a
helpless gesture. First of all, should you declare at once: your scientists are absolutely right. This world is much younger, than
should be. Here there are ruins of Assyria, but never was Assyria. Yes that there, and drevnevavilonskogo kingdoms with
laws of Hammurapi too were not. Stella, costs, and Hammurapi was not.
It has spent a forefinger on a table-top, and directly before eyes of Karhana the huge display has lighted up. Ruslan has
easily learnt familiar outlines of Entre Rios, the Caucasian mountains, Egypt, Asia Minor, Greece... But further the shape of
the earths did not correspond to anything, before to them vidennomu.