“Here… I brought some candies,” said Vladychka, looking for a place to put his sweets.
“For now, keep your candies,” said Mezernitskii, “first we will ask our guests to taste this seal meat, and when its place is vacated, we’ll put your candies there…”
Before eating, only Vladychka John and Vasilii Petrovich crossed themselves, but no one else did, Artiom noticed.
In spite of its enchanting smoked and salty smell, the seal meat turned out to be as tasteless as a rag. Although, if they ate it with the hand-pies with cabbage and followed that with hot tea, it turned out to be not bad at all.
Everyone was chewing, everyone had tears of tension and sweetness on their eyes.
“Your time is almost finished, Mezernitskii,” said Vasilii Petrovich, who literally dropped a tear when he had finish
