Ana

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now 5343 AD. After the war between the great powers Russia and America, the world was devastated. Our existence almost hung on the hair as we hid in underground hideouts that people in those days set up in secret without anyone knowing. Otherwise, they would be ripped out of your hand and turned into a safe haven for an enemy target that at the time was called a bunker. Lucky for those who kept a secret and went through a nuclear winter and the grueling droughts that played with our planet like a slave. The first recorded records of us humans appeared only about 4,000 years ago when the Earth was cleansed of poison and finally safe ... No one knows why the war broke out, and those who know swore to take this secret to the graves. now 5343 AD. I'm Anna Maria Antoinette Lily Etolep and that's my life story ...

We will now move on to 5274 years of our era. Then I was five when my life turned upside down. I stayed with my father in a huge mansion. He hated me. Clearly I saw and felt it. I didn’t live in my room from day one. I slept in a barn on the hay with my foal Dragonfly. He licked my face when the sun came up. Peter — my father's trustee and housekeeper — secretly taught me to read, write, and count. I hid all the notes in the haystacks. I remember once he caught me reading.

He suddenly opened the door. The dragonfly stumbled on its legs and shook its bitters. I put the book aside and began to calm it down. A couple of meters away I saw him and eyes full of contempt and anger. He looked at me strangely and suddenly, with a tight head, he rushed towards my bed and grabbed the book of fairy tales I was reading. He flipped it over.

- Who gave it to you?

I didn't say anything. his voice sounded scarier than he looked. I thought for a long time what to answer. And that’s when he squeezed my shoulders I didn’t feel it when I started crying.

"No one ..." I said quietly, just to myself.

“Who gave it to you?” This time the tone was a cucumber higher. He almost screamed at me.

- Nothing. I found it in Itano's room on the table ...

- It stole ...

- No ...

I couldn’t say anything when he hit me. I fell to the floor. He nodded again when I was blocked by the Dragonfly. He rushed at the man in a hurry ... but then he furiously scrubbed the book into the burning stove. Then, standing up, he grabbed the whip from the wall. Immediately, the very moment he just touched the whip I realized what would happen. Screaming loudly, I saved the foal from the stables.

- I won't let you beat him.

His gaze suddenly diverted and then I realized I had made another mistake. Grabbing me by the wrist, he started pushing my body and I started screaming. Knowing that no one would hear anyway, I cried for help even from heaven. Deep in my heart, I hoped that someone would still hear a cry for help and save me. Moments later, he tied his wrists with ropes to tear off the back of the dress.

- No need ... please ... no need to pray.

- You need to be taught, because otherwise you will continue to do so ...

Every spoken word stuck in his throat. I no longer knew what more I could say to change his mind. I remember that the first stresses were the most painful, and later the skin seemed to die.

- Don't talk to the lady. I will change the bandages immediately and feed you.

- Booklet ...

- Don't worry ... I'll read it to you ...

I judged from his voice that he was worried.

- Itan is very worried about your lady.

- I'm OK...

I paused after each word. It was hard to breathe. I wasn’t used to sleeping, let alone lying on my stomach. I felt exhausted, exhausted and heavy. The fingers of one hand felt a wet cold muzzle. I immediately realized it was a Dragonfly.

- As soon as I saw him running from the clown, I realized that something was wrong. Just don’t try to say anything. Save energy my lady.

He planted me carefully and fed me with a slight inclination. Finally laid back. I fell asleep. I woke up with a tingling sensation in my back. A rough, warm, and damp object carved my wounds. I frowned more and more when suddenly the pain started to subside. After a small one, but it still suppresses and decreases more with each step. I was almost asleep again when I heard something coming. The dragonfly stood in the pestle.

- Calm the Dragonflie ... its me, Ithan.

The dragonfly stood like a bite, but Itan came to me anyway. From that day on, I took care of my father’s insurance and cared for me on the farm. We were good friends. Well, maybe at that time the words brother and sister were more appropriate than friends. Itan took a very important place in my heart and it didn’t change for very long. While working in the fields, I repeatedly saw Mrs. Trelon coming to my father. For a long time I thought there was nothing between them, that they were just ... well ... friends ... but later I noticed that she only comes alone. Once in a while I met her in the waiting garden and remembered our first meeting when she attacked Itana that he refused to take her bag, and I defended him with my preparation and received a very painful slap. To calm me down, I threw a clump of dirt at her. So I was beaten by her while she was all grumbling and had to extend her visit to the mansion. The father did not forgive him for such a jump and beat him. So I wanted to get away without anyone noticing, but I felt her glow and waded a ton in half. Mrs. Trelon's gaze was different than usual. He was loving and warm. I watched her slowly move towards me. His legs were ready to run at any moment but he didn’t need it. She leaned down and spoke with the same smile on her face.

- As a maid has a very beautiful face ... for such a face some women would give everything ... save it.

- I'm not a maid .... I was not and will not be ... I am a lady ...

I felt a flush of red on my face and questions on the woman’s face. As soon as she started talking, I sniffed on.

5262 In the year of our era, July 9, as every Thursday, Mrs. Trelon's husband left again and she came to her father's house herself. Dressed as always, she fluttered like a swan. She turned out to be worried and how angry I was. Quickly climbing the stairs, she waited for the door to open. After sliding through the back door, I slowly approached the glass door, because everything is best heard there.

- Henkai, what will I have to say to my husband.

- I don't care about Beatrice here anymore.

"They're yours," she exclaimed.

"We had to get rid of them before we were born," he said, drinking another glass of whiskey.

"It's a sin," she shouted loudly.

- Deja Beatrice's adultery is the same.

- I thought you loved me ...

- Love me? At Beatrice, you were one of many adventures for me ...

Then there was a slap.

- You're disgusting to me ... you just bought the enemy Henkai Etenmoneli ... I know what she really is.

I saw when he grabbed her by the hand then with the back of her hand she ran the other. He released her. I realized it was time for me to go back to the garden. As soon as I ran, I snorted to my previous place and, squatting, started weeding. When I heard the dice roll, I turned my eyes and felt her behind me. I turned and stood up. She approached me. An outstretched hand crossed over my chin. I nodded and she immediately withdrew her hand.

"Forgive me, Anna ..." she smiled strangely.

That smile was warm and loving just like that in the garden. Then I realized that this lady is not that bad. I smiled at her too. She stuck a disobedient strand behind my ear and squatted at my green eyes.

- How beautiful you are Anna ... I hope my daughter will be at least a little bit like you. Watch out and run away from him as far as possible.

She smiled again. Finally getting into the carriage on the last step she turned to me again and said goodbye. I answered her at the same time. Basta loved to accompany incoming and outgoing carriages. Basta was a cute dog. I have not agreed to a sweeter thing after the Dragonfly. It was a cross between a German Shepherd and a Saint Bernard although I highly doubt it, as Peter said. His coat was long and dense, dark brown with light brown spots, muzzle blunt, and somewhat short. Basta was a very big and powerful dog. Peter and Ito guarded and avoided him. He only came to him when I was around, and his father not only hated him, but also feared him. He just asked me. Could have done everything I would have ordered.

I remember that 5280 morning when I found it. it was a clear and warm morning. I went out into the meadow to cut clover for my rabbits, cows, and horses. I heard something. I raised my head and stopped for a couple of meters after seeing a huge dog over my head. He pressed something in his mouth. The creature raised its nose up. I heard perfectly how he snorted and tried to smell the air. through the great clover it flew like air. I stepped back and he went out on the cut path I had made. He looked me in the eye for a long time until I stretched out my palms and he put that creature on me in them. He licked it again. Suddenly he strained and began to cut his ears. then quickly spun back into the clover and disappeared. I looked for a long time for a ton of side where I last saw a mysterious creature. I finally looked at the strange creature. legs short with sharp nails, eyes small, nose barely visible, and coat was one ball of fluff. It wasn’t until later that I realized it was a puppy. My father thought I had beaten the cart that I had brought this animal home.

When I remember beating, my heart starts beating faster, but I don’t regret for a moment that it was at that moment that I went out into the clover, that I didn’t scare the creature and that I hugged that creature.

My suffering will end soon, but then I didn’t know it yet. I returned to the clown that day in high spirits. I served dinner to everyone and after shaking the couch I was about to settle down when my father drank all the drunken drunken through the door. when he saw me, he grabbed a whip hanging from the wall and grabbed me by the wrist and began to extend. I didn’t scream this time. I knew no one would respond to my scream. standing up I hit him. he was a little shaky and his gaze seemed confused, but later he became even more angry and hit me on the ground. still a little swaying, he began to whip me. I didn't let out a sound I didn't let him enjoy it. he finally threw the whip out of the country. convinced he really came out I got up. my back hurt more than usual so i decided i got more than usual. when I went to the bed I pulled out the box and pulled out the bundle of bandages and covered my back. in my mind I tried to remember how much I got a rim together, but the number got lost to 20. I lay on my stomach and heard the dog barking fiercely. I suddenly stood up to hear him.

"Basta," I called him, "Basta."

I heard him tease. The body was shaken by electricity and I quickly jumped out of the clown. There he stood a few meters away and lay Basta nearby. The metal gleaming in the moonlight forced me to grab a consortium. Looking down, I grabbed a few stones and threw at him. A few hit him in the legs. he shuddered a bit but did not fall. Looking at me, he turned and turned to the manor. When I ran to Basta, I hugged my hair, but I didn't find a wound. He raised his head and when he stood up raised his front paw to the right. I watched his silhouette slowly retreat towards the fortress. I soon returned to laying and covered my bastion-strapped paw and fell asleep.

I closed my eyes and realized I was being carried. When I woke up quickly, I looked at what was going on here. I smelled the smoke and started coughing. I soon saw Peter. It was all soot, and it was carried by Ithan. Finally we stopped. On closer inspection I saw the light of fire and at the same moment I realized that the fortress was burning. Peter quickly left, and I fell asleep. When I woke up, Basta was lying next to me and looked up somewhere looking up. I researched everything. Rising up not wanting to wake Itano, I drew towards the manor. When I got closer nothing around was like just a bunch of rubble. After a long search, I found one body, and after a while, another. I knew Peter almost immediately, but I hesitated about the other body. But I did not dare to get closer. The legs were just like crooked. Tears welled up like beans. Sadness and joy mingled in the heart of the freedom finally gained and the loss of a friend and father. I knew I wouldn’t feel free until he was alive ... but sadness didn’t leave my heart. After all, it is foolish to feel sadness for a person who physically harms another. I saw animals grazing in a remote meadow. When I returned to the laying, I took a shovel and went a little further towards the garden and started digging a pit. With each hint, it became easier and easier for me, and there was a smile on my face. I soon dug a pretty deep pit. The bodies were drawn by Itan. Peter dug the pit himself. Didn’t let me interfere. When the body sank into the pit even then I did not dare to examine it closely. I hurriedly hit the ground on my body for fear that it would not rise. When I finally gathered the last clumps of earth, I brought them from the shore stones and put them on top. We went to handle them in bulk.

The days slid one after the other. I fed the animals every morning, then wandered around the ruins and searched for books or something. Until one morning my life turned in the other direction when strangers arrived. They were two. The manager and the other sedan in the carriage. The latter was similar to Peter.

- Are you Mrs. Anna Maria Antoinette Lily Etenmoneli? I'm an ombudsman for your uncle

This time I first heard my full name. It sounded very familiar, but I wasn’t sure.

- My father just called me Anna.

- Of course then. Your uncle Henry is your new guardian. He wants you to get to him as soon as possible.

- Okay, but is itan ...

- This is your trip, Anna. I can’t travel with you. Just take Basta, otherwise he will die of sadness.

Tears welled down his cheeks. Now I understand that he was telling the whole truth. The Ombudsman had my documents with him, and the unauthorized removal of Itano was a serious crime, especially when he was a minor and without a guardian. Before saying goodbye, I hugged tightly and tied a ribbon around my waist that I have been wearing since the day I came here. I gave it to him with the thought that I would return it to me. I got into the carriage with a pressed heart. I waited so many years to finally get away and when it finally happened it wasn’t fun for me at all. I remember perfectly well that that farewell was one of the hardest in my entire life. Tears rolled down my cheeks. The farther I drove the harder it hit my heart. Even Basta couldn’t comfort me. It always seemed to me that I could hear the drones of the Dragonfly and the Silver. We only stopped in the evening. My eyes were still red as it pierced. When I got out, I saw the manager standing next to the door. He was about to open the door for me and help me get out. He smiled at me and pulled an apple out of his pocket.

Maybe the lady is hungry?” He asked politely as he planted an apple for me.

"Thank you," I told him, taking an apple.

- I left home at the age of thirteen. My family was not generous. My father left us and my mother got drunk and sold me outright for three boxes of vodka.

I listened and couldn’t believe the mother could do the same to her child. Looking at it, I realized it was true. There was pain and sadness on his face.

- I thought I got into a better place, but I was wrong. I was kept in the pavement, my only friends were horses, sheep and pigs. When Henry Etolep walked past one day and redeemed me when he saw me. He raised me as a son, and when he heard that your care finally belonged to him after this year, I decided to make him happy and help transport you home.

- Is he ... - I stopped at the beginning of the sentence and wondered if I really wanted to hear the answer.

- If you ask if he is like your father ... I will answer the lady that I do not know, because I have not seen him in my life, but from the photos I can only judge so much that Mr. gentler facial features.

I wondered and began to imagine what it might look like. Finally when I put everything in my mind I went to see the horses. They were both dark as night only one had a light spot on his forehead whose shape reminded me of a dragonfly. Sparkled deep in my heart, isn't it here? I approached him to pat. He snuggled away from me, so I decided to outwit him. When I returned from the carriage, I pulled out a bag full of apples and carried it to them. The latter immediately took an apple from my hands. The first wanted to scare me and resented loudly. I didn’t even cross. I stroked the second one and slowly untied the arms and took them out of my mouth and threw them into the dense grass. The first sniffed me intently and shrugged as if I remembered. I turned around and stroked him. I took the apple out of my mouth and gave me an apple.

"The lady better not get closer to that horse," Ehard said.

- Remember me Klo.

Ehard looked at me in surprise. I stroked them both, but I didn’t expect to see Klo ever after our last meeting. Klo was the first to escape the manor alive. The old mare gave birth to him and the Dragonfly. Half a year later his mother died, Klo was exchanged for Silver. I listened to his snoring for a long time and felt my heart beating. Basta was calm when we moved. After spilling, he finally fell asleep. I slept comfortably on the cushions. Oddly enough, I slept well even though my conscience grieved that I left them there. When I woke up we were already at a stop. The rising sun shone directly into his eyes. With my eyes soaked, I got out of the carriage and stopped. Ehard and another gentleman were still asleep with horses grazing nearby. After seeing the lake, I decided to take a bath. When I got into the water, I was completely immersed. I floated in the water for maybe ten minutes until I finally caught a fish. After quickly catching the fish, I started a bonfire and started frying. After drying my clothes, I put on a long dress that I found in a carriage and pulled me into the meadow. I hoped to find berries and mushrooms in such a meadow and my hopes came true. I washed the berries and put the mushrooms on the twigs and started baking. I enjoyed the berries when Ehard sat next to me. I then ate the berries no longer alone.

- If a girl from the nobility knows how to live in nature herself, she is not used to serving her and sometimes loves animals more than herself ... it can only mean one thing.

I swallowed hard with a bump in my throat and looked at Ehard waiting for an answer.

- Your father did not pamper you as a real, loving and devoted man should have done. He didn't love you ...

I knew it, but hearing it from a stranger was more painful. Grabbing one twig with mushrooms, I swelled and tasted it. The mushrooms were still green so I put them back.

- Forgive the lady if I offended.

"It's true ..." I didn't think, "just don't tell Uncle." Their relationship wasn't the best anyway ... I don't want him to hate him any more for that.

- I will be silent like a grave lady.

- Thank you Ehard.

When I checked the mushrooms again, they were already baked like fish. The lawyer was already awake and joined us immediately after the interview. We moved forward. I heard the horses racing restlessly. We stopped already. Ehard hurriedly heard the horses, and I was given other clothes that I had to change. I hid my hair under a wide men’s hat. Ehard was dressed up just like me. This time I sat in the manager's seat Ehard sat next to him and the lawyer with Basta in the carriage inside. I was told not to stop living alive because we are passing through very inhospitable lands. As soon as I got permission I shouted out loud and quickly moved forward. We drove fast. Meadows changed forests and meadows fields. When darkness began, Ehard prepared a rifle and held it to himself. At dusk, I saw something in the distance and several men flew in front of us. The horses were scared I didn’t control them and we went to the side. When we finally stopped I heard shots. Falling from the carriage, I hit my back. I heard Ehard's cries, the barking of Basta. Everything seems to have merged into one whole. Leaning back, I got up and immediately dived to the side, pulling one of the attackers to the crotch and pulling towards the carriage. When I didn’t reach her, I heard a shot and after a few moments my shoulder pierced in severe pain. I fell. I felt like hot blood running down my body. As soon as his face touched the grass full of mint-smelling eyes, the image began to rain until finally seeing someone's feet, the image completely darkened out.