Guardian Angel. 1. 6. Numbers

"A GUARDIAN ANGEL"
a mistical novel
by Alexandra Kryuchkova

PART I. A GUARDIAN

1.6. NUMBERS

April 6, morning
Moscow, a medical laboratory


Alice came back to Moscow. She had to attend the Elder’s event at the House of Serving to Creativity at noon.

«Alice, today is the 6th of April. You have a flight to London on the 12th. Before leaving, you were going to do what?» the guardian asked.

Alice recalled that she had planned to visit her doctor, but the doctor would ask her for the results of the current tumor markers. Alice didn’t like to go to doctors. She visited them extremely rarely, at best, with the frequency of her birthday, and received their reproachful sighs, because, given the hereditary predisposition, they demand her to come once in six months.

Before going to the Elder’s event, Alice ran into the nearest vampire department open 24/7, where she donated blood for the tumor markers and, with a sense of half-fulfilled duty to both vampires, doctors, and her earthly body, went to the House of Serving to Creativity.

White appeared in the laboratory, «Hello, Red-Eyed! I need help.»

The guardian of the lab assistant turned around. His eyes had a reddish glow indeed, but he was in a white lab coat.

«Hi, bro! Just don’t ask me for falsifications! A lot of guardians have already come, everyone had a plausible pretext. But then, it’s me to get all the hellish things on my wings from Above! For several years, I’ve been asking to transfer my ward to another department! You see, even I have got that bloody essences settled in my eyes! And just look, what’s going on around us here!»

There was an awful lot of all sorts of Dark entities, striving to get close to the coveted delicacy. A pair of guardians were holding the defense with their incessant prayer chants while the guardian of the lab assistant was scrupulously analyzing the energy of the next portion of the freshest blood for the corresponding records in the Astral Tablets.

«I’m really asking for a good purpose! You won’t be punished for it! Do you want me to sign it in the Tablets?»

«No doubts, for a good! One came here like that the other day. Almost swore on the Bible saying, „For a good purpose, change the blood type number!“ What difference does it make whether it’s I or IV, since a person with IV can have any type of blood transfused and won’t suffer. Thanks God, I scanned the options! His ward with his wife would be driving in a car a month later, and — bang! — crashed. Well, the wife, with the blood type I, would urgently need blood. Her husband with the same type I would think he has type IV, that doesn’t fit the type I, and would give it up. And while they would be looking for blood I, his wife would wave him from Heaven and fly Higher! So, don’t tempt me, bro! Don’t make me scan the Space of Options 100 years ahead. There is no good without bad…»

«My case is simpler, Red-Eyed. The tumor markers need to be raised up.»

«Up? What for?»

«To keep my ward on Earth.»

«Bro, I don’t get the connection.»

«If the results are left as they really are, she’ll go to the doctor at best in a year. But in six months, she’ll have to meet me, and the need to visit the doctors will disappear with her earthly body. I have to somehow push her! Do you understand? There’s no time for her to relax.»

«So how much to raise them up?»

«Well, so that she understands that something is wrong, but at the same time doesn’t get scared too much!»

Red-eyed thought for a moment, «No, bro. Sorry. I can’t. If you bring me a permission from Above, then okay. Otherwise, no.» White sighed heavily and disappeared.


***
at noon, Moscow, the Union of Writers


Alice appeared in the House of Serving to Creativity. Almost everyone was already there. Those present greeted Alice, asked her about the trip to Elabuga. Alice promised to organize a trip for a group of poets to the 11th Bonfire. The guardian of the Elder appeared, followed by the Elder with Hope. The event started. Alice sat opposite the Elder and saw Heaven instead of him. Yes, Heaven, because there was much more Heaven than Earth in the Elder. Alice wanted to keep the Elder on Earth, but didn’t know how she could help him, and was about to cry. The guardian of the Elder directed the rays of Divine Love towards the girl. Then Alice recited her poems in front of the audience and the Elder, and he praised her with the warmest words.

White, after exchanging a couple of thoughts with the Elder’s guardian, disappeared. The event came to the end. Alice accompanied the Elder to the door.

«Do as Hope tells you,» she said and with heavenly tenderness ran her hand over his hunched back.


***
not yet evening, Heavenly Office


White entered the Heavenly Office and asked for an audience with the Chief of the Council for Life and Death.

«Your permission is needed,» White said respectfully.

The Chief opened and leafed through the Tablet and Alice’s Book of Life, and sighed saying wearily, «You do know how many times she has already remained on Earth instead of coming to us.»

«Of course,» the guardian agreed.

«Don’t make me repeat the first grade lesson to you. Each human has the most favorable moment of transition. Someone is going through it, and someone leaves earlier. Your Alice has lived several lives in one. Each time, in the next most favorable moment, you tried to persuade the Council not to change her earthly body. And we agreed. You made a commitment to fulfill certain tasks. But this cannot go on indefinitely. Look at her dial of the current year and the next one…»

«I’m her guardian.»

«It doesn’t mean that you, even having our permission, will be omnipotent forever. One day you won’t be able to keep Alice on Earth. And she won’t want that either.»

«But if there is the slightest chance to save the human body, should it be missed?»

«Such saving is not always appropriate. Sometimes it’s better to let the soul go.»

«I’m asking for a permission only for one sign, and not for her life.»

«Leave Alice to herself. Let her go. If she is ready to live in the same body at the end of the next stage without intermediate rest, she won’t need signs, believe me. But if she is not ready, then no signs will help. Am I wrong?»

The audience was over. White clenched his fingers into a fist and disappeared.


***
already evening, Moscow,
a glamorous place


White appeared in a glamorous place, found Glamorous at a glamorous table surrounded by glamorous people, and took him aside, «Listen, bro, there’s a small thing to be done. Leave your sinner alone for a few minutes only!»

«For a bohemian place, I hope?» Glamourous purred with a cat smile.

«The most bohemian!»

Both guardians disappeared and appeared at the door of medical laboratory. A lot of dark entities started examining Glamorous from halo to toe curiously.

«Oh, White! Why did you bring me here? It’s so not glamorous inside! I can’t stand the sight of blood! And there are too much dark ones like dirt here!»

«Listen, bro. If you want your sinner to have time to return his debts to Alice, help me. Nothing bloody is required! Go to the guardian of the lab assistant and ask him to leave with you for wherever you like, even for the roof to Carlson, or for a secret casino, choose yourself. Talk to him about this and that for 5 minutes, and you are free.»

«Is that all?» Glamorous was surprised. «Why do you need it, White?»

White answered nothing and dematerialized. Glamorous sighed, entered the laboratory and, under a plausible pretext, took Red-Eyed to a glamorous place.


***
next morning, Moscow,
oncology hospital No. 1 on Baumanskaya


Alice ran to the vampires, took the results of the donated blood and compared them with the previous ones. One indicator went down. Another one was too high. Actually, not enough to faint, but on the way to the office, Alice still went to the clinic, where her doctor had been working for many years, to make an appointment before leaving for London.

«Dr. N. left for another clinic,» the receptionist said with a smile. «Dial this number!»

Alice dialed the number and heard it said again with a smile, «Dr. N. is at a seminar abroad. Call her in May please.»

Alice was somewhat nervous, so she went to the second doctor to scan the earthly body and sleep peacefully. White tried to negotiate with the guardian of the doctor so that she told Alice she had seen something that was not yet there. But the latter, like Red-eyed in the laboratory, refused the idea.

«So can I relax?» Alice asked.

«Yes, Alice, there’s nothing new,» the doctor smiled and signed her docs.


***
evening, Moscow,
«Alibi» club coffeehouse


Alice was hosting a literary event at a club coffeehouse. The hall was full. Many guests, knowing that it was her birthday, came with gifts and flowers. Alice smiled holding a competition «A smile makes everyone brighter!». The guardians (and, fortunately, there were almost as many of them as there were people, because Alice’s guests were mostly bright) were peacefully chatting.

When all who wished to take part in the competition finished reciting their poems, Alice descended from the stage to her table behind the column, which had already become her own, to count the results of the public voting.

White appeared on the stage. He turned to the guardians present in the hall, and they fell silent, while people were chatting.

«Bros! Peace to your wards and less worries on your wings!» White said from the stage.

«And for yours, White!» the guardians said in response.

«My Alice will soon enter her Saturn period and need help. She has always helped and continues to help, as much as possible, many of the humans present in the hall.»

«You are right, bro!» the guardians nodded, remembering what Alice had done for their wards.

«Therefore, I ask each of you to help her as much as possible in hard times.»

The guardians nodded in understanding and directed rays of Light towards Alice. Alice took the stage to announce the results of the competition. White left the stage. People were silent in anticipation of the results. The guardians immersed in peaceful conversation.

Alice returned to her table and communicated with her good friend Svetlana, who had come to congratulate the birthday girl. Their guardians stayed at the next table sharing the latest news.

«Alice, what about the competition you took part in? You said you recited somewhere at the end March!» Svetlana asked with interest.

«Ah, yes, I took part in it. True, I didn’t want to participate, but they called and asked me to come. As a result, in a strange, miraculous way, I reached the final, but it’s unrealistic to win, so you can forget about that competition.»

«In a strange, miraculous way! Did you hear it, Light?» White exclaimed, addressing to the guardian of Svetlana, called Light. «First, Glamorous appeared, saying he had another plan ripened, how to push his sinner to pay his debt to Alice, and I had to deal with the organizers of the competition to ask Alice to participate in it. If you knew, bro, what it cost me! I had to make one of the jury members out. Well, temporarily, I mean, to send him to the buffet, while Alice was reciting on the stage.»

«Won’t the sinner of Glamorous meet with Alice in London?»

«They’ll meet. We’ll fly on the 12th to bump them into each other. But Glamorous, he should have everything fancy, with decorations, he loves exclusives and complications!»

«How was your trip to Elabuga? Without any complication?» Svetlana asked.

«Without,» Alice replied shortly.

White grumbled, «Without? The plane had to be stopped four times on takeoff and I saved her from a frontal collision with a truck on the Nizhnekamsk-Elabuga road. And she says, without! She was given such a welcome! Even with fireworks! Do you know, Light, what she was thinking about all the time? The Man in White didn’t call her! As others like him, the sinners. Do they remember her? Guess it. Probably, she’ll die still thinking about that one in White with a tail and hooves! Tell me, Light, why? All her life Alice is drawn exclusively to the dark personalities!»

Light laughed, «Do you think my Svetlana is better? Everyone has the same thing. They don’t realize what we are saving them from! Humans tend to look at the world exclusively with two eyes, to notice only what we failed to save them from. Once Svetlana got a relatively small misfortune. She was late due to traffic jams. I saved her life that way, but instead of thanking me and being rejoiced, she got upset!»

«So now everything will be fine with you!» Svetlana said. «The Sun was moved out of the Dungeon, and the Spheres were shifted in such a way that you can influence the situation.»

«You can influence… Light, how do you like it?» White couldn’t calm down. «They won’t be able to influence anything, if there is no permission from Above! Most of their events are the result of our sings and actions in a complex chain of interconnections organized by us in advance or even at the very last moment, and exclusively for their benefit! However, they still believe in fairy tales, that we, the guardians, don’t exist! That they reach everything in life exclusively with their own earthly brains! They imagine themselves to be the Sons of God, being only blind dream walkers!»

«White, these walkers in the dreams of God, albeit blind, probably know that we exist, but at the level of the Subconscious. When they wake up and eventually meet us, their dream will scroll like a movie and in all dimensions, and it will become obvious: where, what, for what and what for. Agree, if people could see us and communicate with us, why would they come to dream on Earth? By the way, when you were a dream walker yourself did you believe in your guardian?»

White sighed. Suddenly, Glamorous appeared there, «Hello, bros! White, I’m here for your wings. Have Alice got her British visa?»

«Tomorrow. Everything is okay, I checked it. I saw the stamp with my own eyes.»

«That’s great!» exclaimed Glamourous, rubbing his hands together. «Then on the eve of the book fair, right there, in London, let’s meet to discuss the details!»

«Glamourous, have you already visualized an umbrella?» Light asked smiling.

«Why do I need an umbrella?» Glamourous was perplexed.

«It’s raining cats and dogs in London. If your wings get wet, you’ll lose your glamorous look!»

The guardians burst laughing. Glamorous pretended to be offended and disappeared.

«Just don’t relax too much, Alice,» Svetlana said. «Nona told you about this year. And she saw a surgery, not something else.»

«It’s okay for now. I’m going to the doctor in autumn. I don’t want to spoil my summer. Especially since this year the period of Saturn falls on summer.»

«That’s it, SUMMER! You have a period of Saturn in SUMMER! It’ll be late in autumn!» White cried out. «How can I get this into your mind if all its space is occupied exclusively by that White image?!»

«Don’t worry, bro! Saturn is still two months away. There are a lot of ways!» Light reassured.

«Alice, has the Man in White called you?» Svetlana asked cautiously. Alice shook her head negatively. Svetlana said optimistically, «You’ll definitely meet him, you’ll see!»

White covered his head with wings in horror. Light burst laughing.