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– Pick up the documentation for the last five years,
do everything the same as we did then. Tommy, I’m going to be
very busy for now – " he pointed at Damiel and Reana.»
Family problems,» he added with a sigh. – I believe
in you, you can do it, «and, patting the employee on the shoulder,
he went further down the corridor. «The seal is in the big safe.
Then you can sign for me.
After a couple of steps, he opened the right-hand door and
nodded for his companions to enter.
Tommy watched them go with a sympathetic look.
The place they were in was more like
the museum. Reana immediately had associations with the castle of the vo-
seventeenth century: the interior was made in the style of such
a lush Baroque in red, black and gold tones, which
at the same time caused both admiration and bewilderment.
Thick curtains covered the windows, creating a dimness
that faded into the silence of the room. Keijigen turned
on the light, opened a cabinet that ran along one wall, and silently
looked at the contents.
Damiel suddenly broke the silence:
«Guys, I think I have a problem! The lower
abdomen is so heavy! This is getting very uncomfortable…
Is this normal? He looked at them with surprised eyes
and batted his eyelashes.
The ex-demon rolled his eyes. – Let’s go quickly… and then there’s a Persian carpet.
He tugged on
Damiel’s arm and led him out of the room, grumbling, «I hope it’s just
a little thing… tell anyone else, because they won’t believe me-
so I can… teach them.»…
The door closed, and Reana didn’t hear the rest of the sentence.
But I just realized what had happened. Poor Damiel.
She felt sorry for him. Everything is new to him, probably
harder and scarier than everyone else, but he just doesn’t show it…
Reana sat down on a gilded chair next
to a huge writing table and examined the items on it.
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things. Almost every one seemed to be a work
of art: an incredibly beautiful vase, as if with a lively frozen
composition of flowers, a clock with a Roman dial,
which looked like a small palace with towers
and the finest details – they could be
viewed for hours. Table lamp in the form of a wave and a ball —
lamp hanging from it, various figurines…
The largest of them, a golden – colored thirty-
centimeter-tall figure with wings, seemed, on the one hand,
very majestic and refined, on the other hand,