Эпос Хищника / An Epos of a Predator: Эпос Хищника

Like nothing happened. Bright light was coming from the ceiling of a chamber and a galaxy was lullingly rotating in the window-screen. Lilac. Harmless. Same constellations slowly flew in circles. And the siren was dreary howling far far away.

theworst 10.03.13 в 12:57

"Mammoths are dragons?" purred Glaya again.

theworst 10.03.13 в 03:07

"Sorry?", I snapped back to reality looking away from a jumble of stars.

StaticVoid 26.05.14 в 01:45

"Giant exctinct reptiles. I have readed an Epos"

theworst 10.03.13 в 03:11

"Read", I corrected, "Speak properly!"

theworst 12.03.13 в 01:28

"Don't be angry", Glaya said, "Everything will be fine"

theworst 14.06.13 в 20:30

I became ashamed. Glaya knew the language very well.When mechanic brought her to the board in a wicker basket, she pured only "Sun" and "Good day". Referred to herself in a third person: "The Fluffy One". <...>

theworst 14.06.13 в 20:39

"I have read your epos", purred Glaya, "You have very small epos, just a several thousand years. It can be learnt in a twenty-four hours"

theworst 12.03.13 в 01:33

Glaya rested her head in her paws thinking. I turned away. The stars were flowing slowly on the screen. Cold and disgusting. I wanted to close my eyes, but I would be alone with the siren, desperate as a toothache.

StaticVoid 04.06.14 в 00:59

"How old are you?" I asked quietly just to interrupt dreary howl.

theworst 10.03.13 в 03:21

"Translating to your time-scale...", Glaya plunged in thought, fluffy tail twisted around the table leg. "Chronologically I'm six earth years old. Socially -- about seventeen."

theworst 02.04.13 в 03:04

"So you're underage?"

theworst 02.04.13 в 03:05

"I still a little one. But if i would back to Earth, knowing epos and language you could call me an adult"

vokrich 29.03.13 в 01:12

Glaya folded her velvet ears down like two umbrellas. They dissappeared in the waves of her grey fur. This must be indicating an emotion. Despair? Sorrow? Or maybe she hates the siren too? What can be dumber than a siren telling something that we already know for a day?

StaticVoid 04.06.14 в 01:24

"You did not answer",Glaya unfurled her ears, "Dragons are mammoths?"

StaticVoid 04.06.14 в 01:28

"No. Mammoths... There were such elephants", I explained, "Huge shaggy animals. Ancient people killed 'em all."

theworst 23.03.13 в 16:25

"Why killed?" Glaya stared with her huge eyes.

theworst 23.03.13 в 16:28

"Were stupid", I looked away, "And hungry"

theworst 10.03.13 в 03:28

"I forgot. You are carnivorous", Glaya wistfully looked at the autoclave at the corner.

theworst 10.03.13 в 03:31

"I forgot. You are carnivorous", Glaya wistfully looked at an autoclave in the corner.

theworst 02.04.13 в 03:17

"Dragons are fictional creatures, like a giant reptiles", I continued, "there were a real giant reptiles, but they died out million years before an appearance of humanity. No one really knows why. And dragons are never really existed."

theworst 10.03.13 в 03:37

I suddenly realized that I am talking as if she is a child. But she isn't.

StaticVoid 04.06.14 в 01:41

"Looks complicated", Glaya said.

theworst 10.03.13 в 03:38

Or maybe a child... I'm not a xenopsychologist. I am a shipboard paramedic at the very usual human ship. Tail waved again. Huge, white with black stripes.

theworst 10.03.13 в 15:03

"Listen to me", I swallowed, "what if this damn siren... Means that a lot of emergency system are still working! Maybe we are worrying for nothing and a SOS signal is already..."

theworst 10.03.13 в 15:09

Glaya jumped off the table landing softly on the four paws, and next moment she was already sitting near my chair.

theworst 11.03.13 в 20:28

"Don't. Did we decide not to talk about it? We will tell eachother a fairy tales about a dragons, don't we?"

theworst 10.03.13 в 03:42

Child...

theworst 10.03.13 в 03:42

A Child...

StaticVoid 04.06.14 в 01:58

"But if they'll not find us in twelve hours..."

theworst 10.03.13 в 13:02

"Don't", Glaya put warm paw on my knee, "If the talk won't change anything, what is the need of that talk?"

theworst 10.03.13 в 13:05

"Don't", Glaya put her warm paw on my knee, "If the talk won't change anything, why talk?"

StaticVoid 04.06.14 в 02:03

"No need", I agreed and patted her back.

theworst 10.03.13 в 13:07

Amazingly soft. Earthlings can't have that kind of fur. It's so nice just to sit next to it. Just to sit and watch a lilac galaxy moving in circles.

theworst 11.03.13 в 20:16

"Only three milion years ago", Glaya started, "we had dragons everywhere too. They attacked, but ancestors built a defencings. Is there a such word -- 'defencings'? Then utahs multiplied and nowadays lizards are living only in conservation areas. They are not sapient, but often speaking in the folklore."

theworst 23.03.13 в 16:41

"I've heard your race is very ancient", I said.

theworst 10.03.13 в 03:44

"First epos is dated more than two million years ago", purred Glaya.

theworst 11.03.13 в 20:17

"You could be the first in the galaxy."

theworst 10.03.13 в 03:45

"We are"

theworst 10.03.13 в 03:45

"I mean the first space travellers. You are so smart."

theworst 10.03.13 в 03:47

Glaya turned face to me and looked from below. Huge chestnut eyes. Tiny black button of nose. Elegant whiskers. And giant velvet ears.

theworst 23.03.13 в 16:49

"You too", Glaya said, "I will tell you one of our old tales, and you wil understand everything"

theworst 10.03.13 в 03:49

"The fairy one?" I walked from the chair and sat on the floor near her.

theworst 10.03.13 в 03:59

"Yes, a fairy tale. We have good fairy tales", Glaya said, "With dragons, princesses and knights."

theworst 10.03.13 в 04:01

"Our races are pretty similar in general", I nodded, "Carbon-based, oxygen-breathing, even our cells are almost identical. There is a hypothesys that tells that we both are the one lifeform planted to our planets from the outer space. And metabolism. Cause you asked for a headache drops and we moved to the medical chamber when..."

theworst 13.03.13 в 01:20

"Here you stop", Glaya exastingly tapped my knee with a paw, "Listen, I am telling a fairy tale. I will try to translate literally. This story should be told in a half of a day, but I will only tell a plot. Once upon a time in a village N there lived a Princess..."

theworst 13.03.13 в 09:11

"So in the Castle maybe. Princesses don't live in villages. Princess is a daughter of an elite family. Or you don't have differences either?

theworst 14.06.13 в 20:47

"Of course we have. That is the point: princess was born very beautiful. She had white wooly belly, very fluffy back and the longest tail in the country. She had velvet ears and a beautiful eyes. She was very smart. Even when she was very young she knew a lot of eposes. Grooms of the village liked her very much. She was very pleasurable to copulate."

theworst 14.06.13 в 20:57

"You can't say that in a fairy tale. Copulating is a taboo. I mean..."

theworst 13.03.13 в 01:26

"I know about taboo, I studied your Oceanian epos. Alright, I will be censoring from now on. One summer day the princess left the defencing and went to the dense pines"

StaticVoid 04.06.14 в 03:11

"The woods?"

StaticVoid 04.06.14 в 03:11