everything, I wanted to get up and run somewhere far away, right
into the night haze.
Reana threw on a long button-down shirt and
went downstairs. Turning on the TV, she quickly ran through 25
channels and, not finding anything interesting for herself, turned it off.-
I found him and stood by the window. She was always drawn somewhere, always
feeling that she had to do something
important and necessary right now, but what exactly —
did not occur to her.
She was looking up at the dark sky, trying to remember
if she had forgotten something, when she saw
that a meteorite had fallen into the garden. Or a comet. Or something else.
It gave off a bluish light, but she couldn’t see
what it was. There was only a flash, and then she
heard a thud. Right in her garden, just a few
steps away.
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Reana had always wanted to find a meteorite, so her
first thought was to find it. And the fact that he fell very
close to her made her so happy that she forgot about everything:»
This is such an incredible event! I will have my own space kuso-
check! I can go to exhibitions with it if it
’s big enough. Running,
knocking over a stool that got in her way, she rushed into the
corridor, pulled on her sneakers and jacket, and ran out through the veranda
into the garden.
When she opened the door and jumped down two steps
at a time, the girl suddenly stopped. Exiting the do-
As she stared into the darkness, for a few moments she could see
nothing but the foliage of the lush garden shrubs.
«And why didn’t I bring a flashlight or smartphone to
dedicate? I won’t find anything, she thought.
But his eyes were beginning to adjust to the darkness.
She saw a man lying on the lawn and froze.
There was a rustle to the right as another one came around the corner. A dark-
haired man in a light shirt was dragging his right leg
and holding on to the fence. It was hard to see the details in the moonlight and
the dim streetlamp, but it was pretty
creepy.
The man was getting closer and closer, about three meters away,
and then he said her name and some words. At first Reana
didn’t understand, but he repeated it again, and it seemed to her that it
was a request for help. The last words began to echo strangely
in my head, then all over my body. The hands
rose of their own accord and stretched out, and