Earlyborn and Zhenka went to greet the dawn. The sky grew scarlet.
Chapter 20, Phecda (Phad)
Earlyborn and Zhenka continued their journey. It was a torture to call for someone in Venezuela. They phoned their captain to inform that he could sail where he wished for ten or twelve days, yet then by with them on the dot! The Ursa Major constellation has a turning in the middle, so our characters were to turn according to the projection they made and head for Costa Rica. Yes, they had a great deal of plans. After inhospitable Venezuela any country, even the one which requires huge turnings in two hundred kilometres, would be alike to the place that is not paradise, but not hell at the same time. Moreover, we know that Earlyborn created Luisian with her imagination when she was sitting by the window in France. This is the evidence she was also, as her character, willing to visit Costa Rica.
It was at the dawn yesterday. Zhenka sat in a cosy hotel room in Venezuela and wrote a poem. His love to sister made him bear creations next to her. He looked at her sleep and thought he was her guard. Protecting her peace was his priority. He scrawled his ideas attending his mind so as not to nod off. “Costa Rica will wait for me; I am not sure you will./ There was one lonely Latin day and a storm from Caribbean sand.” The siblings decided to hire a small plane and fly to Costa Rica without a minute to lose.
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What had our characters already learned during their travel, given that it can end any time now? Do not worry, I am not going to show you the ending of the book – I have something more to tell about in a couple of chapters. Yet there is another question: “What will happen if our life, like a book written in a hurry by some careless writer, will finish any day now?” Then it is quite logical to puzzle yourself with a question “What have I managed to do within this time? How much time did I waste? How did I occupy myself? What comments can I leave on my doubts and emotions I had a long time ago? Did they worth anything? Or were they nothing, like the fog which disappears as the sun rises?” You cannot find the answer to this issue before the hour x comes. Never will anyone guess when this our will come, which means this riddle will remain unsolved. Be that as it may, we are able to presume that the answer is in the meaning of life. And here we face with a fact we are helpless to get it all. So what is the point to understand this question? Maybe it is simpler to accept that we should just consume and produce emotions? This question is intricate. But I can easily say the next: when you get the reward after the hard work you carried out despite difficulties, you feel pleased. As it is widely known, almost everything ingenious is plain. This phrase certainly does not intend to convey that geniuses are fools. It means that there was no sophisticated thought that could lead to practical ideas. The thought which was not hard to explain, but hard to digest. Like there is no healthful gas not just with big molar mass, but with the colossal one. The case is that all thoughts which confuse us, do so, since they look like the lead among thought with its inexplicably enormous mass.
When the siblings approached to the capital, they were told a Caribbean typhoon fell on Costa Rica. This disaster allegedly chased the guys, who decided to develop for one reason—since no one knows when they could die. It chased them like a strict teacher, who has a passion for examining his students, and he is ready to clamp his students’ necks between his teeth with a crocodile’s power in case if the lessons he taught them would not be learned. Yet our characters were calm. They were calm like a patient person with rich background, for whom examinations of life were not new. But even in his hear a question rises “What do I have to do something for if not for the doing itself?” This thought gladdens him.
The characters landed in a town near the coast. Oddly enough, Earlyborn and Zhenka did not collaborate to decide what to do next, but they drank a cup of real Costa Rica coffee with cinnamon and vanilla each and then joined to a local volunteer community. They did so as they wanted to bring good to this macabre world under the moon. The good is the main honesty from ones which exist. Remember how you were excited in your childhood when your mother and you went to throw away rubbish in a bin. You estimated highly this event, as realized there was somewhat beneficial in it. Imagine how many more happy kids’ faces you will see having a job of a volunteer. Earlyborn and Zhenka defeated their wish to leave everything and go to the place where the night meets with the morning. They began working. They were happy. They grasped what you will never grasp living in front of the Eiffel Tower. The grasped what they followed making a plan of their journey at home. What do I mean, my friends? You will understand it. They got that happiness is not to live up your expectations, but to hope without waiting anything. Just to live is happiness.
Luisian sat on a crossbar of a fence and dangled his feet. He did it in tune with vegetation that bloomed behind his back. There were flowers looked like peonies and roses but that were a mix of these types. Luisian was delighted. I cannot conjecture what dawned on him, but he eventually learned what the greatest power of human beings was. “Don’t be sad, never be sad,” said a mother to her boy in a plane when he dropped a glass of tea on a seat. Luisian sat at the table of life and suddenly bid a farewell to that solemn ball of sorrow he visited in his soul when many times mourned the dead father. And I think this was a right step, for his darling father, obviously, would not be happy to his decease made his son grieve over him. There were also some tasty fruit falling down and bumping each other behind Luisian. Some of them got dimples, but they were not discouraged, since knew what else that mother told his child in a plane. Any dimple adds some courage to a person’s soul.
Chapter 21, Merak
Begin with what is important. We often do not understand what to begin with and what to continue with. To learn how to find out what is important, you should compose logical lines of thoughts in your mind. You should have a strong belief that you truly ought to fulfill the action you named your priority. Yet there is no point of forcing you to believe. You should be honest with yourself and act according to your heart.
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Earlyborn and Zhenka moved forward checking the map of the stars they drew. They did not hurry up to set sail, so they met their guide in the middle of the Atlantic ocean not soon. The point of Merak on the map was a bit dimmer than the other ones. Zhenka suggested there was a secret they would reveal when they reach the point of destination. He thought this way as yesterday, when they rescued people from the typhoon in Costa Rica, they seemed to grow up. What does a person discover the next day after his birthday? Well, nothing new, except for one more dawn, one more seen or missed dusk, aging for one day and giving a promise that the person will mature with this passing away year. He does so, because he and we all have no choice, but the point of no return. We all are rockets, and a rocket cannot return back to the Earth soon after its last stage separation. We all are these aircrafts, yet we fly with different speeds, having the same fuel inside. The guide realized that and show his “different speed”. The siblings did not head neither for Brazil, nor Uruguay and Argentina, as the ones who examined the map would reckon. Despite Merak was to coincide with a place of that area, they moved at another direction. It was the guide who decided to do it. He acted like a wise teacher, who opens something beyond the school course to his children to show there is something of higher importance than what they already grasped. The guide brought them to a common silent and dark place. It was about plus twenty degrees Celsius. They could hardly make out Guinea, Gabon or Nigeria looming far from them. There was approximately a thousand of kilometres between our characters and the land on either side. The place was a treasure of energy, which no one, seemed had discovered before them.