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full of hope and energy, and a crippled old man who also once believed in his lucky star and did not at

the tenth time - "your son is absolutely healthy ... and he is gifted." The father, they say, was a little less happy, he drank the vodka and looked askance at his spouse - the gift was most often inherited, and he himself, and all his ancestors, could not boast of such, j

xcellent memory would open the way for him to any university. Moreover, the gif

d the soul, it was worth "reaching out" for the native element of the wind and slightly misbehaving. Something beat in

ost danced, waiting for the duty officer to open it for him. The point worked around the clock, inviting everyone who wanted a new life or fled from the old one. The main thing is t

corpses from his own hand, shock, pills from a metal pencil case, adrenaline, courage. A week of drunken spree - and everything repeats again. The stripes of a junior lieutenant, his own combat troika. Flights around th

of machines with its groan. They hit, all three of them - it's not so difficult to hit a figure that hasn't left its place. Pure physics - pressure, an ideal environment for combustion, stone walls of the furnace - all so that the three elements, when combined, hit an order of magnitude stronger than one by one. The worked-out bunch, run-in more than once, this time did not even damage the shape on the shoulders of the dude, wh

e crumble, under a blockage of cobblestones and rebar. The news gave hope - the "Dreviches" did not abandon their own, which means that they should soon be pulled out, transported to

shment cell of a local prison, the sentence was passed and carried out. A year in captivity put an end to the restoration of the leg, the left arm completely failed. Added hacking cough and swelling on the healthy leg. It's funny, but a new disease saved him. Due to an unknown distortion in the brains

on from a restricted institution and transportation home. The letter strongly recommended that he be

d watchman - in one person. Here they fed, there was a bed (there was no housing of their own, and the younger brother and his family occupied the parents' apartment), they did not ask about the past and preferred not to notice those days when Kolya drank vodka to the trash, trying to drown out the terrible pain in his whole body that came with each

numb hand, it was as if fire sparks were shooting from tension. The last time this happened to him was a long time ago, when Target, drunk to amazement, decided to crawl out f

to go even faster? It is difficult to remain calm when the same Chance with a capital letter, which no

t in fact they are still beasts. If you turn away - they will steal, if you believe - they will deceive you, if you become attached - they will sit on your neck. Even if the new guest is not one of those

ne gifted in ten thousand - a community is involuntarily formed, it is strictly not recommended to release information from within. And if you remember what a meager per

h each generation, its strength grows - if both parents of the new carrier are gifted, and fades (or may disappear altogether) if one of the spouses does not own the gift. Over millennia of competent dynastic selection, the ability evolves into a real horror for enemies, a weapon of the "master" or "virtuoso" rank, into a real trump card, which can be pulled out of the sleeve by anyone in the

guy was gifted - they knew without a doubt, but that this was not an ordinary kid, whose mother had sinne

er the dormant power of generations unwinds in the body. But the guy ... Maxim, it seems? so, the guy didn't even hate his offenders - he was an

eriod of tribal wars, all newborns are forcibly registered under false names and surnames, entering the refusa

nd blamed ... Cruel, dirty - of course. But if you imagine that such a charm will grow, guided by hatred for the murderers of parents, and one sunny day will cover the estate of its offenders with the Fir

did not write down the mothers in the journal - all in order to

round orphan - Maxim. Nobody needs a child, whose fate - once the gift has awakened - is to decorate the armed forces of the Emperor with his person, working off the money spent on his maintenance ... Unless the k

t staircase, this time to the third floor, where there was an archive with a card

oom. Nikolai did not need the boy's surname - are there many Maximovs on the stream? He had quite estimated the approximate year of birth, so the task of finding his Chance's personal file and finding the blood type and number of the maternity ward in it s

ly. Only now there was not one named M

the year? Kolya muttered, scra

lready twelve, and they looked - in black-and-white three-by-f

the allocation of allowances and bed linen, there are vaccinatio

light, slowly closed the door, and only then allowed himself a strong word and hit the wall with

lived here, studied, slept, fought. So, the information w

is orders, with his participation. Much more difficult - why? A difficult question, a little n

hide documents, hide and engage in forgery. Family reunification - what could be more legal and easier

t by the state, slipping, due to the peculiarities of birth, p

y adopt him, like an ordinary child without a gift. New parents will

not find the need for early removal of a whole person from the list of the living. Everyt

o hide this alone, someone should look after and fence of

versations in which an exasperated friend painted pictures of a life together. Nikolai hooted and remained silent, but, in general, he didn't

own the flight and confidently stepped into the darkness of the corridor, following from memory to the director's office. He used to go there often, not on

t the head of which was the headmistress's massive workplace, with a leather armchair under the portraits of the living emperor and the prince of Verkhny Novgorod. Curtained windows hid the street from Nicholas and Nicholas from the street, the left wall was occupied by two s

tly reacted to the idea that a stolen personal file could be hidden like that brazen

rry such papers home?" a

box, since you can't burn i

walked up to the prince's portrait. It was behind the canvas with the wise face of Yaroslav Semenovich that the mistress of the office equipped her

and a key hole. My heart was a little relieved - if there were cunning electronics or the Demidov monogram in the corner of the door, it would b

ent the image of a big boss. The only thing to do is to estimate the location of the spring-loaded part, which blocks the bolt of the lock from moving, and "pres

gh for Mashka to sniff out - and picking up the bottle with two fingers, he set it aside with his outstretched hand to the far e

t the left edge are several miniature cassettes and a black body of a voice recorder - all in a transparent

s, a gray cardboard of a personal file was visible -

explained somehow - they say, I heard a noise, the clinking of glass, I decided to check ... but about the safe, I would have to explain it to the prosecutor. That's why he stood, now closing his eyes to restore the contents from memory to the last detail, then opening again, checking the memorized with reality. When Nikolai was sure that he remembered everything exactly, he carefully poked

ai, without even looking through a third of the papers, be

ies, and these ... it's hard to find a word. Nikolai could not call himself "clea

ual, like an iris pattern or a fingerprint - everything affects it: age, experience, elements, frequency of practices, heredity, favorite spells and a hundred other reasons. The gift draws a unique picture of energy lines and their interaction inside the body - therefore, having lost his leg, Nikolai practically lost control over t

ey or part of the skin with his father, but only on the condition that they practiced the same element ... and further down the list. No guarantees. Therefore, they are transplanted from ordinary people. An extremely fragile part appears in a well-oiled mechanism, akin to a cl

touched his gift. His body is permeated with energy, but due to the lack of practices, instead of a picture of the gift, there is a blank c

ts, be intellectually and spiritually developed enough. Thirdly, do not use force, do not train, do not realize yourself as gifted at all - otherwise, after all, he himself will be drawn to the elements, he will not

of killing a child, for the sake of gaining a leg or arm. It is necessary to be completely turned with your head, satiated with power and l

to the seemingly harmless questions of her boss. If you listen, it seemed that the only and main organizer of everything was precisely the portly nanny. The headmistress was obviously taking precautions, stepping on a slippery path. True, these records will not help her at all: as soon as the edge of the truth comes

Maria discussed how she would spend a whole lake of money. There was no cripple in the plans, and when the boss reminded me of the watchman ... T

d off. Kolya put everything back in place, carefully recreating the original appearance, picked up a

ed. What's next? And then the relatives of the executed man will find him - something like second cousins ​​​​who cannot be attached to the case - and arrange a very long and very

the soul have not yet burned out to sink so low. And

he envelope without specifying the sender? The

e boy's relatives, earn a lot of money and live like a prince! So why is it bad? And as for the big people's plans... Kolya smiled passionately and moved his right shoulder, kneading - the guy i

ing goes badly, at least he will take the customer with him to the grave. And the relati