Chapter two. Journey

Translated by an online translator I apologize for any errors.
Early in the morning of the next day, the Forester appeared on the threshold humming to himself some not intricate song.
Nikolai had woken up long before, and he had not slept well, but today he was going to see his future classmates at school, and he really wanted to make friends with them, given that he was not spoiled by communication. Of course, relatives of his age came to visit them occasionally for holidays, but this was rare, and he wanted daily communication.
- Are you ready? Ignat said, rubbing his hands.
- I put everything together yesterday.
- Now we'll just tell our parents and go.
He stomped into the kitchen and greeted everyone.
- Hey Ignatz, you are still there you're not far from the Witch's impasse, will buy the stake school supplies, here is a list.
- Okay, and I forgot the kids also need to buy everything, and I was told. Memory that the weak has become.
- As you return I will give you a potion to improve your memory - you will remember what you did not know,- the hostess smiled.
- Thank You Maria! You always save me, whatever I would do without you.
- By the way, geese are excellent! Yesterday I put out, want a bite?
"I won't refuse!" I love your cooking.
The hostess was happy to put half a goose on his plate and ran on to do the housework.
- Yummy! Ignat muttered as he devoured the goose and, like a sword-swallower, extracted only its bones from his mouth.
- What kind of instructions will you give? What do the spirits say? - He asked him.
- I asked the spirits yesterday, they say that not everything will go smoothly, but everything will turn out well.Keep your eyes peeled.
"That's right! The great shaman! It will be executed.
An hour later, the bones from the goose were happily eaten by Tresor, happily wagging his tail, and the friends went out of the village and moved into the forest.
"We need to step back a little before we transgress, because your mother has cast a protective spell from here, and people shouldn't see it-secrecy and all that."
"I know," said Kolya, and they walked briskly along the path.
When they reached a huge branching oak, beyond which stood a wall of impenetrable thicket, they stopped.
"Well, with God! said Ignat, and, taking Nicholas's hand, they were transgressively. Their breathing stopped, and for a second there was darkness around them, then they landed smoothly on the ground in the woods near the swamp.
"Why don't we take the usual road to the village, like everyone else?" Kolya asked.
- Yes, you see, there lived a witch Marfa, she did not like communication very much and fenced her possessions with spells that wizards can not pass through, but ordinary people freely pass, so you have to go through this way. -Marfa two centuries as has gone in the world ancestors, and until now no one its protection able to crack not can, this thank you bathe, he went on seventh heaven to it and posproshal as pass, she only from respect to him told, and the would us even not know as children there to withdraw.They wouldn't have thought to get out of there until they were eleven, and they wouldn't have been able to do it without help after they were eleven.
"Well, we don't have time to waste. Let's go.
"Through the swamp?" Kolya asked in surprise.
"Why?" Lesse we will organize a path.
Ignat picked up a piece of moss from the ground, threw it into the water, whispered something, and a fluffy road of moss rose from the swamp.
- Wow! I didn't know you could do that uncle Ignat!
-I can do a lot of things, I'll tell you later, but now let's go.
They started down the path toward the village.
An hour later, emerging from the green thicket, the first houses loomed in the distance.
When they reached one of them they tapped on the window and asked the rosy grandmother who was leaning out of the window:
-Tell me, is not whether there are living Svetozarova?
"Next door. Are you looking for help to find them?
"What are they missing?"-
Ignat asked anxiously.
"They're looking for you!" And we don't know where the coods are. The po berries left yesterday at dawn, and still not, everyone in the forest is looking for them.
-Yes, Yes, with the city we will also Go to help search.
"How are we going to find them?" We don't even have a dog! Kolya asked.
"You're hurting my brother!" I'm a forest Ranger like Ali! Let's go to the forest - I'll tell you.
When he reached the edge of the forest, he snapped his fingers and a dozen squirrels jumped out at his feet, a flock of birds landed on the branches of the nearest tree, frogs jumped out of the swamp, and even a Fox, waving its fiery tail, ran to the edge of the clearing.
"So that's it! Tell your people that two wizards are missing! Search the forest and report to me, if there was no trouble!"I'm not sure," said Ignat.
The animals disappeared instantly.
Kolya knew that Ignat could do a lot of things, but he didn't think that Ignat could talk to animals.
"You're so surprised?"- he said looking at Kolya, - didn't your father tell you who I was?
- Well, he said you were a good wizard.
-Well, so it is so, and why did they make me the Forester of all the forests?
"He didn't say that."
"He's never finished." Well, in General, I am, as it were, a Goblin, and accordingly I am supposed to run all animals and nature.
-Goblin!? Kolya asked in surprise. He had known Ignat since childhood, but it had not even occurred to him that uncle Ignat was a leshii. He remembered his sister's magic textbook with a drawing of a giant Goblin as tall as a good pine tree....
"But you're normal height, aren't you?"
"Ah! You're talking about it!- Ignat laughed, - I can become much bigger, but I don't need it, I don't want to frighten people.
After ten minutes, a squirrel ran up and jumped on the Forester's shoulder, and he nodded and said:
"Very bad! You say the dead have been roaming recently? And the children went that way? Where the hell did the dead people come from? ....
- Lead us!, - the squirrel galloped briskly forward,and the wizards rushed after it.