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- Oh, - slapping himself on the cheeks, Chernika jumps out of the spring, breathing heavily. - Yes, I... I need to rest a little...
He fans himself with his hands.
- You girls are strange... but fun. Maybe we'll meet again.
He will sit for a while, recovering, before the long and tiring descent.
***
On the way to the canteen, the warrior reflected on the sometimes cruel nature of life. How is it that all the locals live in complete harmony with themselves and the world around them, while every person you meet is either a cripple or a mutant. The question was rhetorical, and the answer was "obvious" - they are outsiders here. Neither he nor anyone else has any proof, but how else to explain such poor adaptability. How many more generations must pass before people can settle in Ikazkan, and will they ever be able to? It is unlikely that their disfigured appearance will create any stronger continuity; it is more likely that they will either become completely extinct or gradually degenerate into savage troglodytes. It is understandable why some are trying to escape from here.
And, no matter how welcoming this society may seem, when you look at individual people, you can feel the ambition in them, which they have no way to apply. That very human nature that forces him to grab - power, wealth, knowledge, might, and anything else - and here they are deprived of the opportunity to do so. A slightly paradoxical situation, but one that is openly observed.
What Ukon wanted was simply to die beautifully, with a weapon in his hands, and not in bed, coughing up blood from the illness that had finally broken his body. As long as he could remember, life had never made him particularly happy.
- "Welcome to hell," he muttered, remembering the words of Crushed Tomato.
He stops, thinks about something for a while, and then, having made up his mind, turns in the direction of the collectors' den.