Guardian Angel. 1. 12. Useful phantom

"A GUARDIAN ANGEL"
a mistical novel
by Alexandra Kryuchkova

PART I. A GUARDIAN

1.12. The USEFUL PHANTOM

June 10, Monday evening,
Moscow, the cozy coffeehouse


Alice was in her favorite coffeehouse drinking coffee. Her guardian sat opposite. The mobile phone emitted the usual trill. Svetlana returned from Spain.

«How are your stars doing, Svetlana?» Alice asked.

«I moved them, so we’ll see. What about you? By the way, congratulations on your coronation! You won the competition right on my birthday!»

«Yes, but the coronation is scheduled on June 13. I’ll go there in my poppy dress.»

«Did you buy it? Well done! How did it wait for you so long? Miracles!»

White grinned, «Miracles, yes! You both never dreamed of the quantity of people I had turned away from it!»

Glamorous appeared in the coffeehouse offended and said, «White, are you putting sticks in my wheels on purpose?»

«What sticks?»

«Did we made Alice the Queen?»

«Yes.»

«Have you already forgotten why I tried so hard?»

«Why forgotten? I remember it well enough. To make your sinner pay debts to Alice before he comes to our Higher Light World. So what?»

“Alice had to inform him first, and she sent messages to everyone, except for him! He still doesn’t know that she became the Queen, White! Her Saturn period starts in 6 days. We should meet them together in June!”

White remembered that Alice hadn’t informed the Man Who Was Not about her victory.

«Well, Bro, I’m sorry. I got very tired. She’s just performed on a radio, as the winner. They’ll send her a link, and she’ll forward it to everyone to listen, including your sinner.»

«Oh, White! I need an eye on you!» grumbled Glamourous and disappeared.

Svetlana went on asking Alice, «What other news?»

«I’ve performed on the radio, for the first time. They should send me the link today. I’ll forward it to you then.»

«Your meditation is coming true! The poppy dress is already on you. The radio station has been visited. Has the Man in White shown up?»

«Not yet,» Alice sighed.

«Maybe you should remind him of yourself somehow?»

White addressed the guardian of Svetlana, «Light, could you make your Svetlana no longer even stutter about the Man in White?»

«Does she stutter?» Light laughed. «I think she speaks very well!»

«I still want to send him a message,» Alice said thoughtfully, «so that he jumps in his chair there.»

«What will you write to him?» Svetlana laughed.

«I want to go on vacation. To Sardinia. With you!»

Svetlana burst into laughter. White darkened. Light applauded with his wings.

«Send it! It’s cool! He’ll surely jump up!» Svetlana approved.

«No, he’ll kill me right away.»

«He won’t kill you! He’ll be pleased! Let him be happy that such messages are sent to him by such great people like you!»

White gloomily waved his wing at Alice, «Don’t even try!»

«White, why are you so aggressive?» Light grinned. «As a human, didn’t you send similar messages to anyone?»

«When I was a human, mobile phones didn’t exist!»

Svetlana went on persuading Alice to send the message to the Man in White, but Alice sighed, «I can’t yet…»

«When do you have vacation?»

«First, I need to deal with the 6th Sphere. The Saturn period starts in a week.»

«Don’t you feel well?»

«I feel surprisingly well,» Alice said thoughtfully, because in fact nothing hurt her. «But, to make it sure, I made an appointment with the doctor for the 28th. Today I asked them, if any client suddenly refuses, to be rescheduled earlier.»

«Are you sure you don’t have any pain?»

«I’m sure, yes. Just a strange premonition of Saturn. I keep remembering that meditation. I returned to the monastery and entered the dark tunnel, such a long one. And I walked along it for a long, long time. It looks like three months, my summer Saturn. Moreover, you won’t believe it, but I really returned to the «monastery’.»

«What do you mean?» Svetlana was surprised.

«I’m working again in the House of Serving to Creativity.»

«Wow! What turned you back all of a sudden? It was going well when I left.»

Alice recounted the events of the previous week.

«I see. You have fundamentally transformed your Space in London with the Time Turner! I’m even scared what will happen to you next at such speeds!»

White turned to Light, sighing, «Listen to them, bro. You are changing the script for them, rushing about, negotiating with everyone, flying like crazy, adjusting the necessary events, reshaping the Space of Options. But for people it’s simply the Time Turner!»

«What do you think, Svetlana, makes me feel somehow up? When I saw the abyss last year, well, the gorge, before the car accident, I felt an inexplicable horror. I was carried along the river by the current. I could neither move the oars in the boat, nor get ashore. This time I’ve just walked through the tunnel without horror and any emotion, walked into the distance, knowing that there was a light, and I would reach it.»

«Be sure to reach it! Have no doubt. You had to pass through the car accident, and it happened. But the result is important. They left you on Earth. If you have to go through a tunnel, you’ll do it. What did you see after the tunnel?»

«Mountains by the sea… I reached a waterfall in the mountains, and the Man in White appeared. He took me by the hand and led me to the highest mountain.»

«He’ll definitely appear, Alice. You’ll see. And you’ll go to the sea. You constantly think about the Man in White. He feels it, no doubts.»

White exclaimed with displeasure, «Light, just don’t tell me now that your Svetlana is a sheep as my Alice! Look what she’s doing! Listen to what she’s thinking about 6 days before entering the very same tunnel!»

Light had no time to answer, since Bathy appeared. As always clean, small, plump and smiling, he asked, «White, have you thought of marrying Alice to my ward?»

Light burst into laughter. White sighed, «You’re the only one I lack for happiness! Alice enters the black tunnel in 6 days and will walk it through for 85 days! Next to her, there is clearly not enough space for either your ward or anyone else! It’s narrow to walk there together. Do you understand?»

Bathy threw up his hands and, smiling as always, slowly dissolving in the air, said, «All right, White! I’ll be back in 85 days!»

Light wanted to comment on it, but had no time again, since Wise appeared, «Bro, I’ve found an option, arranged it. Alice will be called on June 20, make her come!»

White thanked Wise, who was about to disappear, when suddenly the guardians noticed a misty image of the Man in White appearing in the air.

«Oh no, just look at it!» White was indignant. «She projects his phantom already automatically and everywhere, though she hasn’t learned to see it with her earthly vision yet!»

Light laughed. White was about to blow on the hated image to dispel it, when Wise poured a flow of energy into the phantom, and it instantly acquired distinct contours.

«White,» Wise said quietly, smiling, «don’t stop your little fairy from working miracles!»

Alice said goodbye to Svetlana. Light and Wise disappeared. The phantom of the Man in White kept hanging in the air for a few minutes. Alice paid for her coffee and headed home. White, out of habit, wandered to the right, pondering Wise’s words. Halfway through, the guardian turned around and noticed that the phantom of the Man in White was following them relentlessly.