Chapter twenty. Healing

Ira came up and sat down next to her.
What happened, why are you crying?
Nelya roared even harder.
-Did someone hurt you?
“No,” the girl said with difficulty.
-Then what happened!?
- My mom, she...
- What with her?
- She is dying! She has been ill for a long time, but lately she has become much worse, and the healers say that she will soon be gone...
Ira looked at Kolya meaningfully, he spread his hands:
"Maybe we could help her?" We could try...
The girl looked at him and said:
- I'm afraid that nothing will help her! But if you want, you can go with me and Lazar Solomonovich to visit her.
The children agreed. Having mentally called Arina, who in a minute transgressed behind a thick tree, and then making sure that there was no one, she approached the company, Kolya briefly explained his plan.
Then Lazar Solomonovich appeared, clean, well-groomed and smelling pleasant as usual, he approached the company and said:
- For some reason I'm not surprised to see you, but it's even for the better, today I had to teach you healing spells, now you are practicing at the same time.
The students, including Nelya, took up the healer, and in a second they transgressed into Nelly's house. It was an old mansion that met all the ideas of rare housing, everything in the house was saturated with the spirit of a bygone era, an old maid, who, judging by her appearance, was still nursing Peter the Great, escorted everyone to the bedside of the sick and left them alone.
- Mommy! - Nelya whispered, - I came with friends, they will help you !!! Will definitely help! And she sobbed.
Kolya felt uneasy at these words, he was so afraid that he would not be able to alleviate the fate of the patient in any way, and he would in vain reassure Nelya, and she was so counting on his help!
Lazar Solomonovich, as usual, calmly examined the patient, and from the barely perceptible shades of his facial expressions, Kolya guessed that he was not very pleased with the result.
- My dear, - he said, - your condition inspires me with such a deep fear for your life that I am forced to resort to group therapy, I really hope that it will help you. Now I will explain to my colleagues what needs to be done, although they are young, they are very talented in healing, I am sure that by joint efforts we will stop the disease.
He took Kolya, Arina and Ira aside and whispered:
-If I fail to achieve what I want, and the three of us do not have enough energy to save her, then tonight she will not be, because her strength is running out.
- Why three?! There are four of us!!! - exclaimed Ira.
- No, Irin, your vitality is not protected by an amulet, I have no right to involve you in this!
But you are not protected either!
- I am much more experienced than you, besides, it is my duty as a healer to make every effort to save her life.
Ira nodded.
“Now we will try to focus the healing energy into the body of the patient, holding hands, we have one attempt,” said Lazar Solomonovich.
They approached, surrounding the bed, and held hands.
Kolya felt a warm wave run through their hands, which grew stronger and stronger, gradually becoming a tsunami of energy. Arina's medallion lit up, and then his ring answered him with a bright flash of light, they saw a clot of energy glowing in different colors that formed in the center of the circle and mentally tried to lower it into the patient's body, but he did not give in.
Drops of sweat on the face of Lazar Solomonovich betrayed the severity of the tetanic tension that he put into this medical procedure:
- Just a little bit more! - he whispered, barely audible.
Kolya made a phenomenal effort and the clot collapsed inside the patient, as if shining from within her with an inner light.
At that moment, an internal explosion occurred, a bright aura surrounded the patient, and all three were thrown a meter away from the bed.
Kolya had the feeling that he had been unloading wagons with bricks all day, he looked at Arina, but she did not look better either. The boy looked at the healer, he lay unconscious.
The children rushed to him and began to shake him.
- Carefully, you will break my ribs! - Lazar Solomonovich grumbled smiling, rising on his elbows, he slowly got up, brushed himself off, and approached the patient.
She slept peacefully and looked completely healthy.
 - I can say that we have done a great job! Saved the life of this woman! - he said with satisfaction - now she will recover in the very near future.
Nelya sat in a corner, fascinated, looking at all those gathered,
she could not say a word for joy, then she jumped up and rushed to hug everyone in turn, whispering: - Thank you! Thank you for saving her! Saved!
When she calmed down a little, the healer said:
 - Dear child, I ask you never to tell anyone exactly how your mother was healed, this is a very ancient method of treatment, and many would not approve of its use.
- I understand! - Nelya chattered, - I won’t tell anyone, nobody, nobody!
- Well, now stay with your mother until she wakes up, and it's time for us ...
They went out and hand in hand they transgressed.
 - Lazar Solomonovich, what method did you use?
- Yes, this is not a method, I just used the power of amulets for treatment, without them, if you were ordinary wizards, we would not have succeeded ... Will you come to me for tea and play chess?
- With great pleasure! - responded friends.
- With your appearance, my solitude has not become so monotonous, - said the doctor, - I, as in my youth, again participate in something grandiose,
 epic ... As I remember now when your father united the order ... - he said, as if peering into the past, - then I was younger, more provocative ... I remember he met with your mother Kohl - she was the most beautiful woman, I even envied Mitrofan, in that she fell in love with him, and then suddenly I find out that he and her are in a big quarrel and again meetings of the order and your mother Arin was always next to him, I was very surprised, but since he decided so, then he of course it was clearer. And then everything calmed down. I heard that Mitrofan returned to Maria. I worked in a couple of hospitals after that, and then I was recommended for the position of chief healer of Durmstang. I was very proud of this, especially since someone I loved worked here, but my loneliness intensified even more here ... No, of course, old friends from the Order come to me to have a cup of coffee with cognac, but nevertheless I always something was missing, and now I understand something of your company.
- We will try to come to you more often, - Irka said, touching one by one chocolate muffins.
“Of course, of course,” Kolya and Arina confirmed.
After tea drinking, a chess tournament was held, and only late in the evening did the children return to their rooms.