their strength so that it would not flood the island with the unfortunate natives.
He ascended to our plateau, set foot on the land of my ancestors. In the hands of this vile was his personal, “Bible”. As they rewrote it for themselves, so for us the monk, who was Aurelius, brought a fake.
A stranger unveiled it on the sacred altar. I was already coming back. Suddenly I was stopped by a mulatto with green eyes:
– Stop!
I couldn’t get up.
She took me to the neighboring plateau, from which began the entrance to our Land of Milanta.
We have eagle vision, so I could see from afar.
– You are needed here. Otherwise…
She showed a finger on the Heavenly Plateau. A pillar of red light rose from the book, and darkness fell, for the shadows that broke out of the book began to whirl and shatter everything around. They destroyed everything in their path, turning beautiful archimetreies, garcia and archimetsiuses into monsters. Garcias became a hunchbacked canine harpy, archimetreies became half-skeletons, both had long claws, and the only surviving archimetsius was Princess of the Elements, the Star – the young Nara Hilary El. In a bright flash, she flew out of the darkness and disappeared somewhere in the valley.
Aurelius gained strength. But he became a red-eyed monster, with the wings of a harpy, but a half-skeleton, like gragiies (converted bishops). He fluttered his huge black dragon wings and wanted to run away, but was suddenly stopped by an invisible wall of absolute cold. We found ourselves trapped. No one could get out, and no one could come in. Only Nara or Amaniel, her mother queen, could do that.
– Noah, – the mulatto priestess told me. – Your destiny is to save this land. I know that for sure. I`m the Time. My name is Antuana, and I am your Destiny. You can’t change what happened now, but you can change the future. 30,000 nights in this and one day, a lonely person will come to your land. His heart will be broken, but in the Forest of the Ring he will find his love. You recognize him, your new friend’s hair will be like night, and his big surprised eyes are like a deep blue lake in cloudless weather. He is the key to victory over evil. This man will find Nara Hilary El, the red dragon and your ring. And only after that you will be able to bring back the Tears of the Mermaid, because before that you will lose your wings and you will not be able to help anyone until you meet your love on the island of Lordanel.
– Is this an island of the Three ghosts?
– So. But… Noah… Don’t let anyone here named Thomas or Benjamin come here. There will be trouble. You need to destroy the Book by stabbing it with a dagger. Your chance is only 30 days and nights between armistices in your nations.
Antuana disappeared as Time disappeared. And Noah also forgot the bill for days. Trying to find everything you need. However, accidentally going to the fairies, he fell asleep in the Mirror Cave, poisoned by its sweet songs… And the Land of Milanta plunged into the years of separate kingdoms.
I just had to wait. And once a man’s ship, which was supposed to help me save the Heavenly Plateau, appeared in the Land of Milanta, when his sailboat crossed the border across the river Alenor.
Feodore Bill stood at the helm of his magnificent sailing yacht. He smiled, and tears flowed down his cheeks at the same time. After all, Feo had just had to leave his native land to treat his aging grandfather. Legend has it that only the water flowing along the walls in the Mirror Cave could bring back his memory. No one had yet returned from the Land of Milanta, and Feo realized that he, his friend the mag Geldaf, and his grandfather Bernard, a grumbling old man without a memory who kept a book of his adventures, could simply remain in these lands forever.
– Don’t cry, Feo, – Geldaf said, squatting beside him.
– And how am I now without my family? – Feo looked at him. – What will happen to me now?
– You will finally find peace.
– But I will be alone. I have no one left but you and Grandpa Bernie.
– Do not despair, Green Earth is not the only place where different creatures live.
– But my only house.
***
The ship attracted locals, and who quickly spread the word in Milanta, but no one was in a hurry to meet him. As soon as the ship began to pass between the rocks of Privrazhye and the Watchtower, the waves began to shake it, and the ship hit the rocks. He did not crash, but was badly injured and began to go to the bottom as soon as Feo and his team passed the “Gate of Milanta”. The clouds thickened, and a thick fog descended from the tops of the rocks of the Privrazhye. And Feo will definitely not come back… But it seems that someone pulled him and the others off the ship, staying in a house on the banks of the river Alenor.
***
Feo lived on the river in a house with a round door with Bernard. Geldaf lived nearby and often brought news of the Green Lands. Of course, a lot has changed personally for friends and relatives of Theodore, but life there has not changed its peaceful course.
***
Feo looked out the window.
– Yes, it’s beautiful here. But here I am alone.
– Don’t worry, – his grandfather Bernie comforted him. – You will still meet your destiny.
– What fate? I experienced the worst because of this Merak, who almost destroyed us, was on the verge of death a million times, I live with my deaf uncle, who also has multiple sclerosis, and you’re talking about fate?
– Bernie is right, – said Geldaf, who was visiting them that day. – And what are you shouting about?
– What happens next? – Feodore looked at him with his bright eyes.
– Nobody has power over destiny.
Feodore turned and ran outside. What can I say, he is only 25 years old, but he only recently won the war on evil in the face of a demon who calls himself Merak, who almost destroyed the Green Earth, and left family and friends behind the rocks, no longer having options to return. And suddenly he became so incredibly sad that a little sad boy woke up in his soul.
– Why are you sad, boy? – he heard a soft female voice above him.
Feodore looked up. He was surprised when he saw a tall dryad above him – a blue-eyed dark-skinned woman with green hair. She seemed as tall as Geldaf, slender, with an incredible magnet in her eyes.
– Why are you sad?
– I just thought that no one lives here anymore, my ship crashed, and my grandfather will not find a cure for youth and memory…
– I live here. By the way, my name is Elven.
– And I’m Feodore Bill.
– Feodore… Who came from foreign lands… Are you a human?
– So. I am a fisherman from the Green Lands, who defeated the Darkness and our land became peaceful again. And evil dissolved in the burning lava. And you? Your hair is so weird…
– Eyes, but deeper than the blue lake… Feodore, I’m Dryad. From the Forest of the Ring. I want to show you something. Take Grandpa with you and let’s go… Have you been there?
– I saw him while here, but did not go.
– I’ll show you. See you tomorrow!
Feodore joyfully returned home.
– Grandpa Bernie!
– What?
– I saw a dryad here! They exist! Maybe I’ll find more friends?
– Definitely, Feo.
Elven