TIME TO GO HOME! TO OUR BELOVED FATHER! WE SHOULD BE AT TIME!
A beam of a projector shined huge space of the cosmodrome snatched out from darkness two tiny running figures. A huge cone of a spaceship could be seen at some distance.
Martha looked under her feet and was terrified – there was the sea abyss stormed, but girls slid on its surface easily and promptly, as on glass. «But it is impossible! » – flashed in Martha's mind, but her companion carried her away to a yellow rectangle of a door where motionlessly stood a person in silver spacesuit.
– I cannot take you with us, – a captain told. – The ship doesn’t belong to me.
His voice was passionless, the sight was relentless. But Martha's companion did not surrender – she asked to take them so persistently that could soften even mountain. Martha was silent and with widely opened eyes looked at the captain. «It is Sergey! Why does not he recognize us?»
The captain was young and agreed in the end.
– Well, – he told. – I will hide you in such place where nobody can find you. But give me a word that you not leave from there.
The door closed behind their backs, and girls began to go downwards.
For a moment Martha imagined that they already under the water and shuddered. The captain offered to her a hand.
– Are you sisters? – He has asked, looking at both girls.
Martha looked at the companion and nodded. Yea, the second one was her sister.
The captain left them in a round silent room without ceiling – it was replaced with some flexible intertwining pipes, cords, wires, walls had been covered by the metal similar to a mirror, but warm to the touch. Thin steps of a ladder were on left, on the right there was a single translucent door, and behind it was the darkness, opposite was placed the same size screen similar to an aquarium and there from time to time bluish sparks flashed and died away. In one word this was a very strange place…
Leaving, the captain strictly forbade them come to the door and to the screen, but girls would not dare even without his words.
After fast run, excitements and physical weariness it was pleasant to calm down, at last. Girls drove in a dream. Laying next to each other in the rigid armchairs reminding folding beds, they dozed off.
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