Part 1 - Chapter IV. He planned evil

The next morning, Constantine and Nea met on bicycles. As it turned out, Pavlina survived grandfather's bike "Ural", and even in very good condition. Nea was surprised by the high frame, but quickly adapted and now drove at a speed along the side of the country road. At the junction, where was waiting for them, frowning Jeremiah, she dramatically slowed down.

- "Hi, Jeremiah."

- "Nobody calls me that. Call me Jerry."

- "O.K.", - smiled the girl.

Costa watched on friend, very strange, that after yesterday hysterics, he suddenly became friendly to Nea. In the shower, Constantine suddenly had a bad feeling. It never happened, but he knew there was something wrong with Jeremiah. First, he drove these thoughts and greeted each other very cordially, but when he saw the eyes of Jerry he suddenly went cold in the shower all.

- "Hi. Friend." - Jerry said very calmly and quietly.

Costa looked at him very carefully. There was something faint in his eyes: something eerie, something frightening. Constantine realized that he could not ignore the alarm bells that he felt rather than heard. He decided to keep an eye on him, and Nea for anything, under any pretext not to leave him alone. He was hoping that feeling will disappear and everything will be fine.

Friends together went for colored clay, scored full bags and rolled to the shore. There they draw and orchidales coloured clay, which become colored as hell. And when they went swimming, all the colors of the rainbow began to mix. By the way, the clay is very hard to wash off, and Nea hair acquired a shade of sea-wave color that she loved. Sunbathing on the shore, friends went to ride through the village.

Jeremiah suddenly came close to Nea and smiled, his strange, unfriendly smile. Seeing the maneuver Jeremiah, Costa pressed the pedal to catch up with them. He was very scared, but when he saw that Jerry drove off quietly, and Nea smiles kindly, he calmed down.

Then he blamed himself very much for his carelessness, at that moment he could have prevented everything, but he did not attach any importance to it. Constantine did not yet know that the wheel of fate was running at the moment when he met on the ferry with Nea. Even then, nothing could be changed. It was already a foregone conclusion.

They drove up to the well. Nea for the first time in her life saw a similar structure: a quadrangular box, made of round logs dug into the ground, and above it rises a pole, like a huge fishing rod.

- "What is it?" - Nea asked in amazement.

- "It's a real Gold well. In cities such already there is no, but once such wells were everywhere. Now even in our village on each street there are columns where we collect water, and before the whole village was cold to one well. "

At the end of the oarlock was tied a wooden bucket, Costa came up and lifted up the bottom of the stick and the bucket disappeared into the abyss of the well, then he lowered the stick down and popped a pole with a bucket full of water.

- "Try it. It's real well water. You're so never going to try." - Constantine suggested.

Nea went to the bucket, picked it up, made a big swig and coughed. Icy water burned his throat, and his teeth instantly wrung. The second swig she made a little and only felt all the charm of taste the freshest and purest water in the world. She smiled and looked at Costa.

- "Water sweet!" - Nea exclaimed. - "Didn't someone sweeten it? How can there be such a thing?"

Constantine laughed.

- "I don't know, it's nature. Everything is possible in nature. By the way, there is a legend about this well. The elders of this village say that "the seekers and the elect, let them hear tales of other lands." They say that sometimes the story tells well, and even predicts. You need to lean into the well, whisper your name. If you are a special person, you will discover the secrets of the well or he will give you a prediction. I don't know if it's true or not, but some villages swear they've heard stories of miracles."

- "Let's try?" - Nea exclaimed.

- "I won't. All this lies. No one here heard anything," – Jeremiah said in a long drawl.

But Costa and Nea no longer heard him, they both bent down to the well and leaned over, looking deep into the dark waters.

- "Constantine," - the boy whispered.

- "Nea," - the girl whispered. Suddenly, in its echo came the whisper of the well, as if awakening him from his eternal sleep. The dark expanse of water went rippling and Golden highlights.

Looking deep into the well, the boy and the girl did not see that around suddenly began to happen strange things. The trees suddenly flashed the light of the evening sun, blood red, became unbearably stuffy and quiet. The air was filled with dust and fog crept from the forest. People in the village began to fuss, abandoned their business and began to hide in houses, lighting kerosene lamps, the electricity turned off. These signs were harbingers of the strange weather that constantly happened in the village. At this time it was impossible to leave the house because people disappeared. But this rarely happened, the villagers identified, the signs of foreboding and evenetually oppressive silence or the moon was huge and too silver they immediately drop everything and refuge where necessary. Sometimes and have neighbors, no one denied each other in aid. This was the first rule of survival in the Deadly fog, which could begin at any time of the year, in any weather and at any time of the day.

Nea and Costa didn't notice, they didn't see Jeremiah looking at them strangely. His eyes were bright with determination the dark. They watched what was happening in the well. They were enveloped in a thick fog, and the well began to whisper a ghostly voice, but everyone heard different words. Nea listened with bated breath:

"The fulfillment of the prophecy is Coming! She who fulfills it will see the truth soon. In the Royal family Born, saved before birth, the daughter of the Royal virgin and the oathbreaker, who defected to the side of Darkness, betrayed by a friend three times, will return to another world to fulfill the inscribed. And she has the choice to stay here or in the alien world to leave. Knowing that it is waiting for death and the eternal battle against evil, and in the world that saved her, the peace she finds and death will find her quickly. What Will She Choose?"

And Constantine heard something else:

"The fulfillment of the prophecy is Coming. You, a Stranger, inscribed in the history of another world. Three times betray a friend, not just you save your alien world. You will face terrible trials. But which side will you choose? Fate is in your hands and nothing is predetermined! If you follow the same path, you will fight and endure hardship. You will lose almost everything that is so dear to you, but you will find Great love and your destiny. If you follow the second path, you will cross the line of Light and Darkness and you will lose everything and you will perish. But there is also a third way, not to take sides and stay calm, you will not lose anything and gain nothing. Everything will be as it was. So what will you choose, Stranger?"

The voice died away, and in the air, as if out of nowhere there were pictures of another world. Castles, valleys, streets, wiped people with white hair and blue eyes. But the faces were blurred, it was impossible to understand who is in the picture. Soon the visions stopped, and the well was the same.

Nea and Costa, still trying to see something, but the light faded, and the bottom was just water. They moved away from the well and were stunned: they were surrounded by a milky white, dense fog.

- "Nea, give me your hand so I don't get lost. It is not good that we are out of the house in a Disastrous fog. Quick, we need to find shelter." - Constantine said anxiously.

Suddenly he heard the cry of the Nea and Constantine saw a glimpse of her hand and disappeared. Someone pushed her, and the air suddenly began to sway. He ran around the well, raking the fog with his hands, but could not find Nea. Then he saw the bucket with well water, it sparkled with silver light. Costa grabbed the bucket and splashed it in the direction where Nea's hand flashed. Suddenly, a smoky veil was fluttering in front of him, which turned into a transparent wall. The fog began to draw into this veil, and Constantine realized where people disappear and where, now Nea. Without hesitation, the boy rushed into the veil, following the fog. He heard Jeremiah shouting behind him, "Where are You going? You are an idiot! Damn that girl!"

Costa realized that Nea did not fall into the trap itself, but decided to deal with it after. The whole fog of noise was involved in the veil and in the village there was a quiet summer evening, with a surprisingly clean evening air. The electricity was restored, and the veil was gone. The well was silent.