My city 2: The terrifying history Zhalovskoy, or the Spider

Now I will tell what conversation took place between sisters, and you will understand why occurred as occurred, but not differently.

So, we will begin.

She went along the street, went down in the subway, reached to the Bagrationovskaya station, and having changed on the trolleybus, reached FILYOVSKY PARK to a final stop. There she changed on other trolleybus and having reached to the stop left. I will tell I to you where Nin's vein was not the good place. Park zone, green zone. My relatives lived once there, exchanged. But we will continue. Nina lived in the nine-floor house. On the sixth floor. It had quite spacious two-room apartment. Now, when Natalia arrived to Nina, the house was not that. It walked with the doggie, a little long dachshund. Having come back home, she saw сидящею on a bench about an entrance Natalia. It had an anxious look. Nina approached Natalia, looked at her, and having greeted asked.

– What has happened?

– Anything. – having heaved a deep sigh that answered. – Just I should leave.

– Where to leave?

– What is it important where? – hard Natalia answered. Then she told. – I leave for a long time. Perhaps. – she assumed. – This business trip will last year, and even it is more.

Nina sat down on a bench near the sister. She saw that that suffers. She could not refuse this business trip, and she so wanted on the dacha which was near Dmitrov of the Moscow region. Unfortunately, she could not afford it, she served in investigation, protected the homeland. What can be more important in life? Probably only to continue the sort, and only.

Nina asked.

– And how Roman? You love it!

– I love? – Natalia grinned, and from her eyes tears appeared. – Of course I love it! – hysterically she answered, and added. – But I have such work.

Nina took an interest.

– What work? – then she asked. – What at the enterprise is sent to business trips?

That in the affirmative shook the head.

– There send further.

Nina anxiously asked.

– Where?

Natalia having grinned, answered.

– Where? – interrogatively and at the same time ironically she grinned: – Yes where will want! – then it had a small hysterics, and having kind of sent everything where far away she roared. – I have right to rest!

Nina began to smoke a cigarette, and having offered it to the sister, told.

– Take, helps.

Having taken a cigarette from a pack, Natalia lit, continued a conversation.

– I leave. – she told. – I leave for a long time. – she looked at Nina, and that saw despair in her eyes. Natalya left, left for a long time. Leaving in the country all what she valued as whom loved all these years. It told the sister. – Take care of Roman. I know, you love it. – she made the next inhaling, and having released a stream of white smoke from lips, added. – do not hurt it. He does not deserve it. – having finished smoking a cigarette, she threw a stub into a ballot box, at the same time having extinguished it about it, and told. – If I do not return, know, Roman never has to learn where I worked.

Having looked at Nin on Natalya. Seemed to it that she says goodbye to it. It seemed that it with it their last conversation. Now she will get up and will go to the center, and from there will leave there where it will be not in safety. Yes when it was in safety? Perhaps never. On Nina's face the fear appeared. She never saw the sister in such state. she told it.

– Really you tell it? Really you think of death at our age. – it encouraged her. – No, to us early to think of death!

– No. – Natalia did not agree with the sister. – To think of death never late. It comes unexpectedly, it is possible to tell imperceptibly. – it having made a pause a deep sigh heaved. It was heavy to it to speak about it. – It always creeps when you do not wait for it at all. Time, and the person is dead. And it was cheerful and full of vital energy a second ago. – she made long pauses again, heaved a deep sigh. – Here so that.

Nina saw that it is heavy to sister to speak about it. This conversation was difficult for both of them. Nina understood that Natalia would not speak about death without the reasons. It seemed to it that Natalia says goodbye to it.

Nina asked.

– When do you leave?

– Tomorrow.

Having tenderly looked at Nin on the sister asked that that spent the remained day and evening with her, having told at the same time.

– I want that you did not remain alone today. You need support now. Natalia having looked at the sister gently smiled. She touched her hand, and told.

– Well, I will spend the night at you today.

Nina got up from a bench, and Natalia told.

– I will come now. – Natalia asked a cigarette and to light. Nina, having given her a cigarette and to light told.

– Well. – then she added. – I will put a teapot.

Nina left, having left Natalia one, сидящею on benches, курящею a cigarette.

Passed a quarter of hour. Natalia entered the apartment. She passed to the room, and having sat down in a chair, thought. She thought of how to it to perform a task. She knew that though she also told the administration, that Elvira worked for Americans, this assumption could be wrong. Elvira could work for any investigation of the world. Elvira, if this was her real name, and this name widespread not only in the West, but also in the east. In this case it could work also for Mossad. In Israel this a name widespread, as well as in Russia. And from where to begin? – Natalia thought. Where that thread which it is possible to grasp? In investigation all can be including the threefold agent.

Her reflection was interrupted by Nina. The teapot boiled, and she called Natalia at a table. Natalia got up from a chair and having passed on kitchen of the village at a table. On a table there was a little what tasty. Only tea, and concentrate. And what the woman working in orphanage could have. Living for one salary which was enough only for payment of the apartment. Yes, the honest person cannot live in this country.

Nina sat down at a table, and asked the sister.

– And in general, how are you?

On this question Natalia was not what to answer. Affairs of family life at it it was not got on. At work there were one problems which demanded the decision in the nearest future. She had to leave again. Well here you will tell? Natalia heaved a deep sigh, and told.

– What affairs can be? – with grief she answered. – So, one unresolved problems at my work. – she complained. – There is no time to be engaged in private life.

Nina heaved a deep sigh. She as is impossible who, as well as possible, understood Natalia. It helped orphan children. She saw all that pain and suffering of these children their parents caused to them. Terribly. It is terrible to remain alone, and with a brand for the rest of life, the ORPHAN! I do not say how there live children in orphanages. As there live orphans. Their tutors simply scoff at them. They humiliate them, do not give the rest of food, and simply despise them. To them simply rather to leave home, to the family and that there happens to children them does not concern. From there is a conclusion. Similar institutions are a prison for orphans where do over them that it is necessary for soul. I know about what I write, I from there. From hell children's contempt by adults, and mockery by our supervisors.

Nina asked.

– Would you like to remain with me?

Natalia answered.

– If it is possible.

Nina kept silent a little, she felt that Natalia came to it because it should have been uttered, to tell something before leaving the country. – then told.

– Why don't you quit the job. – Nina Natalia advised. – Or take a vacation.

That answered.

– I cannot quit the job, and take a vacation not to turn out.

– Why?

– I. – Natalia began to speak. She spoke quietly and in its voice it was possible to sort grief and grief. – I cannot quit the job because I know too much. – she made a short pause, then added. – I cannot take a vacation also. I have no right.

These words delivered to Nin in confusion. She understood that her sister does not finish speaking something to it. Something hides from it, but that? Did not know this Nin. She carefully asked.

– Where do you work?

That quietly answered.

– On the government.

Nina did not understand. She thought that Natalia joked, and she asked again.

– On whom?

– I told. – Natalia repeated. – On the government.

To Natalia, Ning nonplused this recognition. She did not understand how in general it is possible to work for the government. The government is the White House in Moscow? How it is possible to work for him? Nina knew that Natalia does not work neither in the State Duma, nor in the Kremlin, as for the White House, about it the speech in general went. There was one, intelligence agency. Intelligence agency more than anything. Nina tried to analyse and other thoughts, but this thought was uniform. What Nina thought of, everything came down to one. FSB.