Chapter five. Witch a dead end

Darkness, the inability to breathe, and now they were in a small village called Witchs end. The only people who lived there were wizards who specialized in selling all sorts of necessities for school, from books to wands and clothes.
Picturesque nature bordered the houses scattered across a wide clearing.
Children went through the rows and bought the list of things that were required for school.
"Why do we need clothes?"- asked Ira, we have our own.
"These are not simple clothes, they are protected by magic. First, it protects you from any weapon, i.e. it is impossible to kill you in it with a sword or a spear, and secondly, it warms you, and in minus fifty it will be warm as in summer, although it is not thicker than a t-shirt.
- Wow!Sasha was surprised.
-You still need to buy animals and magic wands.
"Why do you need a wand?""I saw you doing magic with your hands, didn't I?"
"I'm different! My magic is different, I will explain later, and you are wizards -you need a wand, although I will not deny that some of you can do magic without it, but there are not many of them.
They went into the house to a ruddy witch about 25 years old and went to the counter.
- Hi Arina! - said Ignat, - you're still getting prettier in your 250 years!
Arina smiled and said: - Thank you for the compliment! I try to stay in shape! Shaping, detox, diet,.... well, you know....
"Of course! How can I not understand! said smiling a certain way - we have wands to young wizards.
- I'll take it out now, - said Arina and went into another room ....
-And it's really 250 years old!- asked Ira in a whisper ...
-No, she's 350, she's getting younger, and I know her from the cradle, I remember with her grandfather drinking this tincture when he was young...
- Uncle Ignat, how old are you?
- Yes, two thousand, I don't think I counted maybe more, there was no calendar there before ...and why should I count my years if I am immortal?
"An immortal?"- with admiration repeated Irka and Sasha in one voice.
- How Koschei!?
"Well, sort of, but I'm kind if you don't make me angry," he smiled.
Arina fluttered out of the room and held out several sticks. "Pass your hand over each of them and tell them to come to me!"
The first was of course Irka, she was impatient to take possession of a magic wand, she held her hand and one of them jumped into her hand, then the same thing was done by Sasha and the action was repeated.
It was Kolya's turn. He passed his hand over it, but the sticks remained where they were. Kolya concentrated and in a confident voice ordered-come to me! In the next room, something rustled, collapsed, and a wand flew out of the box, whizzed through the air, and jumped into his hand.
Arina gasped.
"I've never seen anything like it!"-told she, - what this for wand? And. and very strange, its already about century no one could tame, I perishing been mulling can at all no one not be appropriate throw wanted to place not occupied, and here smelled owner!
And continuing to wonder and groan, like a 90-year-old grandmother, Arina went to see off the guests, and at the same time to exchange news with the neighbors.
- No matter how young you are, and you can't hide your habits - they give you away, - said Irka.
"That is true," replied Ignat.
After buying books and other small items from the list, they went to the hut where they sold animals.
I went into the store, where everything from floor to ceiling was lined with shelves with cages, in which sat a lot of all sorts of animals.
- Choose who you like, - Ignat smiled.
Irka as always the first decided on the choice and pointed a finger at the Falcon sitting in the cage, - can I take it?, - she asked in a soft voice.
"Of course," said the Forester good - naturedly.
After him, Sasha chose. He climbed down somewhere, and fished out a snake of decent size.
-He always dragged some kind of crawling animal into the house, - said Ira with a smile, -...a dream come true....so to speak!
"You shouldn't be yr!- Sasha began, - look at how smooth it is!
- Vile and slimy, - finished Ira.
"Come on!- Sasha said, she still then will ask to play, and I'm Jovial I will not give!
- Who.... about ? Funny guy?
- Yes! Look he's smiling like!....
-I think he just wants to eat someone!!!...
Kolya had already noticed the animal that he wanted -it was a large spotted kitten, some unknown cat family. He went over and stroked it.
"This will definitely suit you!" If he allowed me to stroke it, "said the old witch, coming out and yawning," two girls came in yesterday, so he picked up all their clothes, so no one wanted to take it, but it's a beautiful animal - look at the eyes.
Ignat looked at the witch laughing: - Tatiana!
- Salmon!"Yes," she said.
"Did you forget anything?"
"And ChaVo?" she said, looking down at herself.
- Amulets and rings to me like....and x no good! she snapped her fingers and her face and body took on the appearance of a twenty-year-old charming girl.
-Shame on Ignatescu make fun of the old lady! Memory the already not kamelfo ...!
Irka stood flapping her eyes - as if to say-but how did she do that ...!
Ignat seeing her surprise explained:
- Yes, all witches easily change their appearance, and every woman wants to look beautiful and young, which is why, despite the fact that everyone in the village is 200 or more years old, they look 20.
-Don't tell us our beauty secrets!-said the girl-I personally all the fans saying it's only because of Organic of cosmetic I survived!
The children and the Forester roared with laughter.
-And I think who sells it! Ignat guffawed.
- Well, this is a side job, so to speak, - the witch was confused. I am the chief financial officer of one of the offices in the world.
- Smear our cosmetics and your beauty will last until death, - the Forester choked with laughter.!
"And you, you! You where more than 200, and all of us pullet teasing!- do not let Tatiana.
"Come on, come on!"no more," said the Forester.
"That's it!
"How long has it been since you told me you loved me?" ....
"Well, there was a case," Ignat said confusedly, scratching his head .
The children watched them and had a good time. Saying goodbye to the merry witch, they took the animals and went on.
- Uncle Ignat, did you really declare your love for her?Kolya asked.
-Truth. And she and Arina and almost everyone here for several thousand years! I confessed to a lot of people, " the Forester said, smiling.
Everyone smiled.
Suddenly Kolya saw her, she was walking towards him from the other end of the village, long blond hair to the waist, bright blue eyes and a face of unprecedented beauty, as if shining with an inner light, Kolya froze in place, not taking his eyes off the vision.
"Why are you frozen?"- Ira was surprised, then following his gaze, she shrugged, - well, Yes, a very pretty girl, so what, there are few beautiful people in the world - here I am for example!... And she put out her face with a comical expression. Everyone laughed.
The girl passed without paying any attention to Kolya
and he was annoyed that she wasn't as interested in him as she was in him.
"All right," said Ignat, consulting the list, " I think we've bought everything, now it's time to go back.
They walked out of the village, joined hands, and in a split second transgresirovali to a tree on the edge of the clearing near their hut.