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Trilogy of Dhana and the Earth. Book two. War with reptilians
Book two. War with reptilians
Andrey Prudkovskii
A thousand years have passed since the events described in the first book of the novel took place. Formally, the Earth has won its place of honor in GAIC (The Galactic Association of Intelligent Civilizations). Has the time for prosperity come as expected? All this we shall learn by going on a trip with the heroes of a new novel. They still do not know that they have stepped on a path that will change the fate of their home planets of the Earth and Dhana…
© Andrey Prudkovskii, 2019
ISBN 978-5-0050-6887-3 (т. 2)
ISBN 978-5-0050-6080-8
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Chapter 1. Kum
His name was Kum. Why? Because his father was Kum and his mother was Kum. And because he was the last child of his parents, the only one who could continue the Kum generation.
Parents chose a small gloomy planet at the crossroads between two star systems. Here, far from the bustle of the big world, father and mother dug up the stony soil and lowered their last seed into the pit. Many years passed here before their son grew up…
Kum has already taken his roots out of the ground and freely moved around the planet, and his parents grew old, grew into the soil, but, as before, remained slender and beautiful.
Kum came to the spring – a small warm puddle among the cold stones – and drove the water along a narrow groove with a flat stone scoop. He knew that now his parents would be happy to have some water. Since childhood, he remembered this harsh planet: stones, frozen ground through which it is almost impossible to squeeze the roots, and a burning core in the center. Absolute zero on the surface and hot gases inside. Only for his sake his parents decided to take root here.
The first sensation in childhood was water: not cold and not burning, but gentle warm water from the spring, which he absorbed with his whole body… The joy of this remained for life.
As he remembers now: he is 10 years old, his roots have long permeated the entire planet, his father teaches him interstellar signaling.
“Well, son,” the mother says, “If you work so badly, I won’t water you anymore.”
And he, having shaken himself, again begins to learn hard, although it was no longer necessary to water him.
“If you do not learn the alphabet,” says the father, “you will never find a friend for yourself.”
But he himself found, found his mother without any alphabet and without any words in a cold void, where she, exhausted and barely alive, no longer gave any signals…