Erk and some kind ofВ aВ book
Innokenty Alekseevich Mamontov
Erk is a simple teenager, living in Earth. He couldn’t ever imagine, that the magic exists. He meets the Death in the flesh, after conversation with which he founds himself in another world. Here he faces his worries, fears and uncertainty. He got acquainted with Blue Cat and Green Owl, who help him to get rid of commonly imposed stereotypes and overcome humanity’s drawbacks. He becomes the only wizard of his life.
Erk and some kind ofВ aВ book
Innokenty Alekseevich Mamontov
Translator Kirill Ilyich Popov
© Innokenty Alekseevich Mamontov, 2018
© Kirill Ilyich Popov, translation, 2018
ISBNВ 978-5-4483-0067-7
Created with Ridero smart publishing system
Devoted to my magic princess for helping me making all of this things up and to the wizard Erk…
Prologue
If I would suddenly disappear, if no one could find me, just now – I’m gone to nowhere. Perhaps, we could meet again. Oh! By the way, the true eternal love, it exists, like all of the things around.
You are not your body. You are the conscious, arrayed inВ your material body. Like you can control the substance ofВ your own body, the same way you can control the matter ofВ the universe. If your mind is already awake, you can rule the yet sleeping ones.
Everything surrounding you, everything happens toВ you, it is only inside your mind, it is only there.
AВ new friend
My name is Erk. When I was fourteen, I’ve met a very strange companion, so unusual for the human’s world. I don’t even have an idea, whether it’s he or she. It just suddenly showed up and started talking to me. May be, some other guy would be scared or decided, that is was just a mirage, but not me. My new friend, the only one to always accompany, to always guide me. It always listens to me, always can give me a piece of advice, it always supports me. It is always optimistic, telling me, that there is nothing impossible.
“All the �impossibilities’ are only your personal �impossibilities’, you are creating them with your own hands” – told it.
IВ figured out, who was my new friend, when it talked toВ me for the first time one sunny may afternoon.
That was the Death. And the same night it appeared in front of me. Death wasn’t similar the way people usually portray it. It was completely another. It was like two rotating hollow cylinder contiguous to each other, the white and the black one. To make it easier for me to perceive this creature, on the top of the cylinders there were images, looked like some human faces, they constantly appeared and vanished. Those cylinders shined white from the inside.
Beginning not from the beginning
Well, I studied in a parochial school for two years, and almost each day I spent in the corridor. Of course, I studied in the state school, too, but, in that particular period I’ve met a new friend. I learned from him a lot: how to become happy, how not to make yourself any problems, how to get rid of the things, usually discomforting people.
The meeting
One day, in July, I took my bike and drove to the garden near the forest, outside the city, like I always did. I took the “Practical magic” by Papus in order to try raise some goats or other creatures.
When IВ reached my destination, IВ prepared aВ few woods toВ set aВ fire. As it started toВ dark and many mosquitoes came, IВ lighted aВ little oven, standing outside the house. The house resembled aВ barn, but it was quite cozy, mats were laid on the floor, tea and candies were on the table and there were bunk bed, made ofВ long and wide wood boards.
The Moon was bright, the stars were shining. Sitting byВ the oven, IВ opened the book and started toВ read the Friday spell. As IВ finished, it started toВ be windy and the big grey clouds were floating inВ the night sky, but, inВ aВ minute the wind stopped and the clouds were gone. AВ strange creature were about ten meters from me. It was the Death. It approached me. At first, IВ was really scared. But s